Bed Preparation & Soil Health Workshop

The key to efficient, sustainable food and flower production, both for the professional and backyard grower alike, is healthy soil!

Join Jason Kamp, our Garden Educator, as he shares his knowledge of all things soil in an indoor talk, provides a guided tour of our very own garden production spaces, and leads a hands-on soil work & bed preparation demonstration out in the market garden.

Great for both beginner and experienced gardeners, this class will cover the following:

• Soil science basics for home gardeners. Organic material to the rescue!
• Build or import soil? Options for backyard production.
• “No-till” and “low-till” methods of soil management, including: cover crops, green manure, silage tarp, deep mulch, and living mulch.
• Tools, tips, and techniques: backyard methods at a market scale.
• Interactive demonstration and guided practice using bed preparation tools to create “perma beds”

This informative class will also provide take home digital resources, free seeds, and your own bag of “black gold” – aged leaf mold to help you grow your own healthy food right in your own backyard!

What does the cost of this program cover?

Your ticket to this program covers attendance at this four-hour long program that includes an indoor talk, outdoor garden tour, and hands-on interactive garden work experience. You will also receive access to take-home information on gardening, seed give-aways, and 1 bag of aged leaf mold per ticket. Non-Member tickets also include the cost of admission to the farm for a day. Please note that because this program runs on a Sunday when the farm is closed to the public (except for private classes), this farm admission should be used on another day that the farm is open within the year of 2024.

What should I wear?

Dress in layers to be prepared to both sit inside for an hour and walk around outside (less than a mile on a hilly path) for an hour, and work outside in the market garden for 1.5 - 2 hours.

• Programs run rain or shine. Dress for the weather if your program takes you outside!
• No ticket refunds within 2 weeks of the program except in the case of Gorman Heritage Farm canceling the program
• Illness/COVID Policy: If you suspect you may be coming down with a transmissible illness, or are currently testing positive for COVID, we request that you stay home. Thank you for helping us to keep each other healthy and comfortable!
• Agritourism Warning: Under Ohio law, there is no liability for an injury to or death of a participant in an agritourism activity conducted at this agritourism location if that injury or death results from the inherent risks of that agritourism activity. Inherent risks of agritourism activities include, but are not limited to. the risk of injury inherent to land, equipment, and animals as well as the potential for you as a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to your injury or death. You are assuming the risk of participating in this agritourism activity.

By signing up and/or attending any of our programs, you are agreeing to the above policies.

Host or Publisher Gorman Heritage Farm