Plants have the amazing ability to clean carbon from the air and store it in the soil where it can remain indefinitely, if we let it. Unfortunately, some of our traditional gardening practices can cause this stored carbon to be released back into the air creating more greenhouse gases and degrading our soil at the same time.
In this talk we will look at how we can turn our backyard or veggie patch into a carbon sink and do our part to reduce greenhouse gasses at the roots while ensuring rich soil nutrients. Join us in the South Re/Max room for the presentation.
About the presenter:
Marianne Lepa is a Simcoe County Master Gardener and a member of the Collingwood Garden Club. She has been gardening her entire life, learning the ropes in her mother's enormous vegetable patch and her grandmother's extensive rose garden. A market gardener in her younger years, Marianne has always found a place to garden, no matter where she lived. Almost retired from a career in Communications, Marianne is turning her free time to encouraging backyard food gardens and native pollinator gardens. In Collingwood, Marianne teaches a season-long course on vegetable growing for people who have never gardened before. She is passionate about community and allotment gardening and believes that gardeners have the opportunity to change the world for the better.
