2019 Presentation and Demonstration Schedule
Presentations:
11:30 am   Native Bees and Pollinator-friendly Gardens: Jocelyn Crocker
​                   Jocelyn Crocker is a chicken- and bee-keeper, community garden coordinator, and Master Composter                                        Recycler who prefers to grow food instead of lawns.
12:30 pm  Beginning Gardening:-Get Growing Your Own! Denise O'Reilly
1:30 pm    Home Mushroom Growing: Carleton Gruger
                             Carleton Gruger is a Mushroom Caretaker with a vision for pattern driven processes. Experience                                                   designing  software mix with permaculture and holistic management practices to bring more fungi into our lives.
2:30 pm    Soil: Mark Stumpf-Allen, Dawn Boileau, and Thean Pheh
                              Thean Pheh has practiced no till gardening or zero tillage since 1968 in Malaysia, and in Alberta since 1982.

Demonstrations: 
11:30 am   Seed saving: John Freebury
                  John Freebury lives and works on a farm near Stettler and is passionate about plants, gardening, and seed                          saving. He has studied permaculture design and regenerative agriculture in Alberta and BC, and remains keenly interested in community resiliency.
1:00 pm    Tool Sharpening: Hart Wichern
                   Hart Wichern is an Old Timer who has seen a tool or two in his time and knows how to care for both wood                                and metal.
2:30 pm    Cannabis Cultivation: Fred Mills 
                    Fred Mills is a Veteran Cannabis Grower and helps Medicinal Cannabis patients get licensed, get starting                                    materials and get growing.  He teaches about the medicines, how to make them and how to use them.