Soil Management-workshop videos

Anne Stine Solberg

Five videos from the Soil Management-workshop at Norges grønne fagskole – Vea in May are now available.

The videos from the first workshop in our Craft Skills for Garden Conservation-project are now available on our YouTube-channel.

The videos covers the subtopics: Garden Archaeology, Preparing lime – hot mix, How to make your own Biochar, The Turf session – how to remove turf and make loam stacks, and Digging the bed-session – with different methods and soil additives.

Workshop videos

Garden archaeology

– the first video from the workshop arranged at Norges grønne fagskole – Vea in May 2022 – a session led by Ingeborg Sørheim – teacher in art history at Vea, and landscape architect Brit Angell Johnson.

Garden archaeology

Preparing lime

– about the soil additive lime: the traditional lime industry and how to prepare lime – hot mix, with Tore Granmo, traditional mason.

Preparing lime

– about the soil additive lime: the traditional lime industry and how to prepare lime – hot mix, with Tore Granmo, traditional mason.

How to make your own Biochar

– about different methods, techniques and tools for making your own Biochar – led by Olav Amund Lie and Knut Arne Jacobsen in «God Jord AS».

How to make your own Biochar

– about different methods, techniques and tools for making your own Biochar – led by Olav Amund Lie and Knut Arne Jacobsen in «God Jord AS».

The turf session

– about how to remove the turf and make loam stacks using 3-4 different recipes – turning the turf into soil – led by gardening teacher Marit Myrstad, Vea and Catarina Sjöberg, gardening teacher at University of Gothenburg.

The turf session

The digging session

– about different methods, techniques and tools for removing the turf and preparing the soil for planting – led by Catarina Sjöberg, gardening teacher at University of Gothenburg and Marit Myrstad, gardening teacher at Vea.

The digging session

Norges grønne fagskole – Vea

Contact person:
anne.stine.solberg@vea-fs.no

Workshop coordinator: catherine.nicoll@vea-fs.no

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Kate Nicoll

Kate Nicoll is the workshop coordinator in the Craft Skills for Garden Conservation project, and in that way, more or less involved in all project activities.

God Jord

Ingeborg Sørheim

Marit Myrstad

Marit Myrstad is a Norwegian gardener and teacher in horticulture for historical gardens at Vea. She has worked within various fields of the industry since the 1970’s.

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