Growing vital foods: From soil to plate
Event description
Are you a keen gardener? Or are you looking to start growing your first spring veggies?
Join Tim Maples and The Good Food Group for an evening exploring how to enrich your soil, grow nutrient dense foods and hear tips on how to maximise plant-based nutrition. Topics covered will include:
- Soil texture and structure
- Biological aspects including earthworms and fungi
- Tips for maximising use of small spaces
- Creating conditions for healthy plants to thrive
- Companion planting
- Shifting towards organic fertilisers
- Consideration of macro, micro and trace elements
- Growing and eating a diverse range of plants
- Growing and eating seasonal veggies
You'll come away with practical know-how to enable you to grow and eat more nutritious vital foods and boost your vitality.
*If we are at covid-19 alert level 3 or 4, this will become an online event*
About Tim Maples
Tim has had 40 years experience as an organic grower, lecturer and author.
A graduate of Lincoln University where he co-founded the Biological Husbandry Unit, he has also served on both the Soil and Health and Biogro executive teams.
He currently lives on a 15 acre organic farm in Nelson where he runs field days to demonstrate sustainable living and organic regenerative growing practises.
About The Good Food Group
The Good Food Group is a local not-for-profit organisation with a vision is for all people across the Top of the South to have reliable, equitable access to affordable kai sourced from local organic regenerative agriculture, and have the knowledge and tools to eat in a healthy, sustainable way. Learn more at: www.thegoodfoodgroup.org