Dates: Recurring weekly. Call or email for next/future class dates.
Living Soils, Daniel Blake is Teaching a 2-week Course in
Growing Your Own Clean Food in Uncertain Times
Novice Gardener:
My clients are anyone serious about growing their own clean nutritious food, whether you are a novice beginner, a seasoned knowledgeable gardener, or a mini farmer. You will learn to grow your own living soils dream garden and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Q&A at the end of each session.
For the novice/beginner, you will learn some of the basics you read about when you took 3rd and 4th grade agronomy /biology, although the teacher may have called it science. You will learn experiential methods with permaculture in mind:
- How permaculture works
- how to prepare your soil
- seeding
- transplanting
- container/raised bed gardening
- fertilization
- building& maintaining a compost pile
- irrigation
Knowledgeable gardener Class:
This class is an in-depth learning experience. All students will take part in a Q & A at the end of each class.
Students will go beyond the basics to learn foundations for understanding what your soils needs are.
You will learn experiential methods of:
- how permaculture works and why it should be used
- how to take soil samples and asses them by their texture
- how to identify soil nutrient needs by weeds growing nearby
- how to build and maintain a successful compost pile
- how to make compost if you have some dirt and little water
- how to prune your fuit trees for the 21st century
- how to 'crack the earth' & grow four times more food per area in the first season
- how to use water more effectively
- remedies that will help you with insect control
- irrigation
Written remedies and short stories included by Daniel Blake from his personal experiences of successful
growing in the US and other countries.
Dates: Recurring weekly please call or email for dates for next classes
Days: Saturdays & Sundays 1:00-3:00pm
Course length: 2-weeks 2 days per week
Zoom classes are $175.00 paid in advance by VISA, MC, & Debit
“Mentoring people on how to grow clean nutritious food since 1972”
Contact info: www.livingsoilsinc.com 928-713-9261- email: livingsoils02@gmail.com
My clients are people who are serious about growing their own food, plant protein crops, seeds and shelter crops. Through their learning and implementation of mentorship by me, they then have the knowledge and ability to teach the generations to come about how to grow their own nutrition and help their communities.
I mentor via video conferencing and in person, delivering client's needs and desires, building the foundation of designing, planning, locating and installing all the necessary components to build a regenerative, sustainable and ecological, year round growing program. |
- We design your private space with permaculture in mind.
- We build soil health knowing which nutrients will feed your soil and feed your plants.
- We design a functional irrigation system specifically tailored for your space.
- We design and build sturdy, long lasting raised beds.
- We can design and build our trademark mini greenhouse over your raised beds for season extension.
- We have remedies for difficult growing conditions, never using synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides or fungicides.
- We use proven methods of companion planting to augment both edible and landscape gardens, eliminating the need for chemicals.
- We believe that each of us wants a healthy planet to live in and on and starting with y{our} soil, we can make that happen.
- We plant trees for shelter so you can grow shade crops and/or fruit crops under the branches.
- We teach you how to care for the finished garden to grow it to perfection.
- We design and build rain water harvesting catchment to release safely into your irrigation system, separate from potable water.
- We design and build above & in-ground water tanks.
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