Exploring Low-Maintenance Gardening
Growing food the lazy way!
Audience: Adults, Teens
Duration: 2 hours
Level: Beginner & beyond
Join us for our Low-Maintenance Gardening workshop and lecture. Learn all about designing your garden the way nature does, creating a relaxing retreat with less hassle. You will get to see up-close examples of low-maintenance gardening throughout the farm that you can recreate in your own yard.
Just as our forests, prairies and other habitats continue to flourish from year to year without people regularly tending them, we can do the same thing in our own gardens. In this class we will explore the permaculture principles that we can (observe) in these natural habitats, then consider how we can duplicate them in our own yards.
By using what is already at our fingertips we can make our gardens truly low-maintenance as well as productive!
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Exploring Low-Maintenance Gardening
Growing Food the Way Nature Does
September 21 at 11:00am
$25 per person
$45 for two people
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James (Jim) Matalik
Jim joined Bending Oak in the fall of 2019 and became the Farm Manager in Spring of 2020. He is responsible for the continuing development of the 25-acre educational farm including the off grid infrastructure, fruit & nut orchards, food forest development, hoop house plant propagation and visitor facilities. Jim has extensive training in permaculture including the Permaculture Design Course with Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture, Advanced Permaculture Design with Peter Bane, and Restoration Agriculture with Mark Shepard. Jim is a trained and certified Arborist and has over 20 years’ experience in landscape design and operations with a primary focus on habitat restoration using native plants and trees.
Jim holds an undergraduate degree in sculpture from Kent State University and has extensive experience working with different mediums including metal, wood and clay and has a love for architecture . He grew up in rural Pennsylvania which was the catalyst for his love of the natural world. Jim plays guitar and lives in Kent, Ohio with his partner Melissa where they cultivate permaculture principles in their backyard homestead with a variety of small animals and two very loud human children- Olivia and Hayden.
