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Compost & Soil Preparation

Good gardeners grow good soil. It's the soil that grows the garden. 

 

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Fava Beans are a useful cover crop, and their leaves can be sauteed like any other edible green. J. Alosi
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Meeting Nature Halfway: Sustainable Gardening

August 5, 2025
Imagine a healthy garden that grows, blooms, and produces food for you, your family and your neighbors, a garden that costs you very little money because everything it needs is already provided. Welcome to the sustainable garden! The Cambridge Dictionary defines sustainable as “causing little or no damage to…
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Vermicomposting & Vermiculture - Orange County

About two-thirds of the waste stream is made up of organic materials, including paper and food waste. While paper can often be recycled, food waste has fewer useful disposal options besides composting. One effective method is vermicomposting, which uses worms to recycle kitchen scraps.  This method…
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Community Ed Class-Compost, Worms, Recycling 

Event Date
Nov 22, 2025

Saturday, NOV 22 10 AM -11:30 AMCOMPOST, WORMS, RECYCLING MADERA MG RANDY Master Gardener Randy will share the highlights of composting and keeping worms to make soil amendments, and demonstrate recycling practices that handle nearly all a household’s waste stream.  Learn the how’s and why’s…
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Vermicomposting

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Sep 6, 2025

Join Santa Barbara Master Gardeners to learn about the benefits of Vermicomposting. 
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Composting Basics

Event Date
Jul 26, 2025

If you’ve ever thought about putting organic waste to work, join us for a program all about composting! UC Master Gardener Teresa Lavell will lead a beginner’s talk about composting basics. Get your questions answered by an expert! Photo by Mikhail Nilov: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-with-soil-on…
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Central Sierra: Turning Dirt Into Gold (EDC MG)

Event Date
Oct 18, 2025

Nurturing soil is one of the best things you can do as gardener. Plants thrive in soil that is teeming with life. Learn why this really matters and how to modify your soils to improve plant health and reduce disease and pests.
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Preserved peach products for workshop attendees to sample. Briana Swanson
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St. Timothy's Community Garden in Gridley

May 27, 2025
Among community gardens in Butte County, The Garden at St. Timothy’s in Gridley is notable for offering people a full-circle experience, from growing, gleaning, and preserving food, to composting food waste.
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