Grow it Better with Local Biochar, Umpqua Biochar Expo

Saturday, October 18, 2014 - 09:30 to 15:00
Address: 
Master Gardeners’ Discovery Garden at River Forks Park
Roseburg, OR 97471

Black is the New Green
Grow it Better with Local Biochar
Biochar Expo
October 18, 2014
Master Gardeners’ Discovery Garden at River Forks Park
Roseburg, OR

  • 9:30 am Refreshments and registration
  • 10:00 Biochar and Good Growing Soil--Scott McKain, Master Gardener
  • 11:00 Low-input Gardening--Steve Renquist, Extension Horticulturist
  • 11:30 Lunch and milling around to see biochar biochar-making techniques and uses
  • 1:00 pm Guest speakers:
    • Biochar and Soil, Food, and Human Health: Mark Sturgess, Bandon, OR; Acres author
    • Emerging markets: Tom Miles, PNW Biochar Working Group
  • 1:30 Discussion
  • 2:00 Volunteering for community and individual experiments--Gani Ruthellen
  • 2:30 Raffle and biochar sales--Gani Ruthellen
  • 3:00 pm Closing

For more information and to pre-register by October 11:
Jim Long, jblong@dcwisp.net; 541.673.3713

Tom Miles Emerging Markets Presentation
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