Vegetable garden soil management

This afternoon workshop from 1-4pm  teaches all the key steps in creating and sustaining healthy soil in your vegetable garden to achieve thriving crops. 

You will learn that consistent improvement in managing soil in the vegetable garden involves:                     

1. Understanding your starting soil, 

2. Balancing your soil for the intensive needs of growing vegetables, herbs and edible flowers

3. Activating life in the soil in the most efficient way 

4. Fine tuning soil quality based on simple tests 

5. Establishing a pro-active yearly rhythm of soil management activities

The workshop makes understanding the complexity of creating and sustaining ideal vegetable garden soil achievable for organic gardeners of any level. 

My Food Garden provides knowledge and services to support the transformation of our food system to being more local and organic. Our business empowers people living in and around cities to be more productive at growing their own food. 

We are located in Brisbane, Australia and deliver our services locally and nationally. Our services in urban farming and organic gardening combine a mixture of hands-on education, mentoring and garden building, in addition to working on larger scale urban agriculture projects. Supporting the emergence of financially sustainable urban farming is one of our core goals.

The business commenced in 2006 and our first web site release in 2008 was under the name of Cityfood Growers and we are now branded as My Food Garden. The company was founded by Peter Kearney, an experienced organic and biodynamic gardener, educator, urban farmer and strategist.

The business has a small team with passion and knowledge in organic food growing and an expanding set of relationships with the movers and shakers of urban agriculture around the world.