Saturday, November 20 | 1:30 pm - 6 pm with a break in-between
By donation $10-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Session 1: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm The first class is the story of soil - the players and the interactions which determine whether the soil is being built or destroyed. It is will give you the tools for increasing nutrient densities in foods, increasing water infiltration and retention, increasing the resilience of an area in the face of drought, disease, or insect attack, and will give you the tools to increase biomass and biodiversity in an area.
Session 2: 4 pm - 6 pm The second class will teach how-tos for specific human-land interactions, such as gardening, grazing, polyculture farming, wildland restoration, wetland restoration, etc., with an emphasis on the more than 10,000-year-old technology of biodiverse polyculture agroforestry called milpa, which could help turn the desertifying planet back into a food forest.
Wildcat has a long history of organic gardening and organic farming in greenhouses and outdoors. He has training in Elaine Ingham’s Life in the Soil classes on soil and compost ecologies and studies mycology and botany and all areas of regenerative ecology which he can get his hands on. He practices many forms of regenerative ecology, restoring biomass and biodiversity to areas in a variety of ways. He brings these schools of thought and his experience together into a single coherent understanding of the ways in which complex ecological systems function and teaches people what we can all do to sequester carbon and to restore the health of the ecosystems we are a part of in ways that make biology and ecology interesting and accessible to everyone, and which empower everyone to help mitigate climate change and this extinction event we’re experiencing.