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Saturday, 11 May 2019, 9 – 11 am – Healthy Soils, Healthy Food, Healthy You With Leonie Shanahan

18/04/2019 By

Do you want vibrant health, energy and happiness?  It all starts in the soil!  Growing soil that is full of fungi, microbes and life – and its easy, and loaded with health benefits.   Get your soils right and you will produce abundant food that is going to support your body with wellness.   Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy you and your family.   You will learn how to grow the healthiest food possible (pots and in ground) and why gardening is the medicine of the future.  We will also test the nutrient (Brix) level of some crops with a Refractometer and talk about the relationship of high brix level equal no pests and disease (healthy soils),  feel free to bring produce samples from your own garden to test.

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This is a chemical free event so please do not wear fragrances, perfumes or spray on deodorant.

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Brix, growing healthy food, Healthy Soil, Nutrient Dense Food

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Yandina Community Gardens acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Owners of the land, the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) people, past and present and emerging. We recognise and wish to learn from their spiritual and cultural connection to the land.

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