Edible Gardening Group

Compost Workshop - Camp Arroyo

Livermore Valley Garden Club (LAVGC) serving the Tri-Valley: Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, Sunol, and San Ramon

In November we had a workshop on composting, including worm bins and cover crops. This was a work shop for the true hands-on, grow-it-yourself gardener. The weather cooperated and it turned out to be a beautiful Fall day out at Camp Arroyo. The first photograph is the view from the potting shed where we held our workshop. We came away with our heads spinning with information. Notes from the meeting Topics included: Worm bins by local worm ranch owner, Matt Abbruscato, composting for the home gardener Cover crops by Diane Dhovoluk: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Compost tea by Jim O'Laughlin: page 1, 2, 3 Resources: Composting 101 Worms dates for the scion exchanges where you can obtain scions for grafting on to fruit trees Cover Crops Cover Crops - Peaceful Valley Farm Supply Cover Crops - Johnny's Selected Seeds All of our speakers were outstanding and extremely knowledgeable about their subjects - we could have chatted to them for days! Somehow or other we managed to fit all of that into three short hours and still had time to sip some cider and eat apple cake.