Soil building class at UH Hilo
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 932-7669
For Immediate Release
The College of Continuing Education and Community Service (CCECS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo offers a class on soil building with Zach Mermel.
Rapid Topsoil Formation will provide information and hands-on experience with a range of soil building techniques for degraded landscapes, including swale-mound earthworks, aerobic compost tea, foliar feeding and biological inoculants, biochar and re-mineralization, intensive rotational micro-grazing, and cover cropping. Class will be held on Saturday, January 27, from 9 am – 4 pm, in the Forest TEAM Greenhouse on the Manono Campus. Cost is $75.
Instructor Zach Mermel holds a master’s degree in ecological design from the Conway School. Born and raised on Hawai’i Island, he is familiar with the different microclimates and multifunctional plants and animals found here.
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