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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