Name: Build compost and soil from yard waste
Start: 2024-04-20T10:00:00-03:00
End: 2024-04-20T12:00:00-03:00
Location: Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Build compost and soil from yard waste

Help us build the first school-based food forest in Nova Scotia / Mi’kma’ki! It will be a place for our students and community to gather, eat, learn and play.

Ne'ata'q Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Learn how to build beautiful nutritious compost and soil in this FREE hands-on Learn & Work Party.  * inclusive, family-friendly

Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Learn, Play, Eat & Connect 2024

Our community is creating a food forest at Bluenose Academy in E'se'katik/Lunenburg, Nova Scotia!  Join our inclusive seasonal Learn & Work Parties: hands-on learning while you help raise the food forest. Find out more at www.foodforestatbluenose.com

Build compost and soil from yard wasteEvent Location: Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose AcademyStorm date: Sun Apr 21Nature is a master decomposer and humans have worked alongside her since prehistoric times to help release nutrients, regenerate soil and feed plants, creating a virtuous closed loop. Join us at the Food Forest to make use of abundant local natural "waste" materials like leaves, stormcast seaweed, yard waste, and mycorrhizal fungi to support natural and beneficial decomposition.This is an inclusive, family-friendly, hands-on community Learn &amp; Work Party, in which you will learn-by-doing to help build our composting system in our young little food forest! We will guide you through the process step by step, so you can start creating your own organic compost at home.Physical challenge level: mediumFamily friendly: Yes. One or more volunteers will be on-site to lead primary-elementary aged children in outdoor active play. Please send us a note at least one week prior to the event with age(s) of child(ren) so our volunteers can prepare.Be prepared: This is a hands-on outdoor workshop.Dress for work and the weather: layers, protective work/hiking boots, work clothes and gloves.Bring: drinking water/beverage; a snack will be provided.If you have it: a shovel, a compost/multi-tined pitchfork. We also need a few more wheelbarrows - please let us know if you have one!

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