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Tag: carbon sequestration

  • Saturday, April 13, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – No-Till & Cover Crops for the Home Gardener

    Maintaining living plant cover is one of the essential practices of building soil health. This Berkshire Botanical Garden workshop on April 13 from 10 – 12 provides practical guidance on using cover crops in a small-scale, non-mechanized, no-till context to improve soil health both for growing more nutritious food and for sequestering atmospheric carbon into the soil.

    Sharon Gensler has been a homesteader, organic grower and educator for nearly 40 years. In her gardens, she uses no-till and cover crops soil building practices on a small scale. $15 for BBG members, $25 for non-members. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/no-till-cover-crops-home-garden-small-scale-practices-soil-improvement-and-carbon

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  • Tuesday, December 4, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Backyard Carbon Sequestration: How You Can Help Webinar

    Landscapers and gardeners have long known that soil is not simply the stuff that props up plants. But not everyone knows that organic and native plant gardening practices can help mitigate climate change by building and protecting soil health.

    In this December 4 Ecological Landscape Alliance free webinar presentation at 1:30 pm, Adrian Ayres Fisher will review the characteristics of healthy soil, how plants and soil life work together to store carbon below ground, and how gardeners and landscapers can make a difference in the fight against climate change.

    Adrian Ayres Fisher, a Chicago-area native, is Sustainability Coordinator at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois. Among other duties, she is in charge of two large rain gardens and a small prairie area that is certified as a Monarch Waystation. She is active in Chicago Wilderness initiatives, the West Cook Chapter of Wild Ones, and volunteers with the Plants of Concern rare-plant-monitoring program in Cook County Forest Preserves. She has trained and volunteered as a University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener and was the native plant buyer for an independent nursery. Her backyard pollinator reserve has been included in local garden walks. Ms. Ayres blogs at http://ecologicalgardening.net and is a featured writer at http://Resilience.org.

    To register, visit https://www.ecolandscaping.org/event/webinar-backyard-carbon-sequestration-how-you-can-help/

  • Wednesday, October 31, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Keeping Carbon in the Ground: A Scientific Exploration of Climate Change and Soil Health

    The Ecological Landscape Alliance is sponsoring a webinar on Wednesday, October 31 at 12:30 on Keeping Carbon in the Ground: A Scientific Exploration of Climate Change and Soil Health. Soils rich in carbon are healthy soils. However, climate change and poor management practices can degrade soil carbon stores and, consequently, the soil itself. Dr. Kristen DeAngelis will explain why keeping carbon in the ground is important, and how carbon sequestration factors into maintaining healthy soils. She will also discuss the changes that were observed over a 26-year period in a long-term climate change field experiment in which soils were heated 5 degrees C above ambient temperatures. Along with a look at the science, Dr. DeAngelis will suggest ways in which we can make changes in our practices to increase carbon storage in the soil.

    Kristen DeAngelis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has trained in soil microbiology and soil ecology at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and has worked on tropical rainforest, temperate forest, and grassland soils.

    $10 fee – register at https://www.ecolandscaping.org/event/webinar-keeping-carbon-in-the-ground-a-scientific-exploration-of-climate-change-and-soil-health/

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  • Wednesday, February 27 – Thursday, February 28 – Sustainable Habitats: Making Ecological Connections

    The Ecological Landscaping Association presents the 19th Annual Conference, Sustainable Habitats: Making Ecological Connections on February 27 and 28 at MassMutual Center, 1277 Main Street in Springfield.  Presentations will cover topics such as essential soil biology and soil improvements, water management, edible landscapes, phytomediation, carbon sequestration, and more.  To review the brochure and use the online registration, or to download a mail-in registration form, visit www.ecolandscaping.org.  You may also call Penny Lewis at 617-436-5838. The Keynote Dinner on February 27 will feature Jeff Lowenfels, author of Teaming with Microbes, A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, speaking on How Plants Eat: The Wonder of Root Biology.  On February 28, the dinner speaker will be Rebecca McMackin, Park Horticulturist, Brooklyn Bridge Park, speaking on Brooklyn Bridge Park: Promoting Biodiversity in the Concrete Jungle.