mmmm...Compost Tea: Weekly Permaculture Class Continues

Ryan Van Lenning Tue, 9 Mar at 11:56am

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Common Circle is pleased to announce another Urban Permaculture course at Common Circle Education this Wednesday in downtown Berkeley. This week's course is titled "Urban Composting and Bioremediation: Compost Teas, Homemade Fertilizers, Plant Extracts, Harvesting Beneficial Micro-Organisms". This is their weekly Introduction to Permaculture class. No pre-requisites are required and all are welcome to any of the classes -- the class always starts with a basic introduction to permaculture design principles. They ask for a $2 minimum donation.

The following will be covered:
1) How to Create Compost
2) Compost Teas
3) Homemade Fertilizers and Pest Repellants
4) Lactobacillus
5) Bioremediation Techniques

The course is taught by Gavin Raders, Common Circle Permaculture Instructor and Co-Founder of Oakland-based Planting Justice! Please RSVP.

See you there!

About Ryan Van Lenning

Ryan Van Lenning is a writer and community organizer focusing on issues of social justice, food justice/urban agriculture, and sustainable transit. He is also passionate about anti-militarism, media reform, and building alternative economies in sustainable cities. Among other places, his work appears in Terrain Magazine: Northern California’s Environmental Magazine, Truthout, and Matador Change. Prior to becoming caught in the web of Bay Area ink-slinging and activism, he taught in the Humanities Department at a community college in Ohio, where he created courses in Environmental Ethics and World Religions: Peace and Violence. He is both a hyper-localist and a globalist, a home-body and travel-addict, and a city explorer and nature aficionado, just a few of the many paradoxes with which he is afflicted. Contact him at ryan@oaklandlocal.com, follow him on twitter @vanlenning, and find more at his blogs Pull the Root, Travelin' Bones, and Rumi and the Cholo.