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Join Hillside Earth-Arts Lab for a talk on garden design.
James Ryder of Hillside Earth-Arts Lab, El Cerrito, will lead a conversation about ecological garden design along with low-tech, low-cost strategies that help slow and sink more water into our landscapes. Building healthy soil is the foundation. A wide diversity of plants, earthworks like basins and berms, dense mulching, barrels and tanks and buckets (oh my!) are some of our modest tools. There will be time for your questions and curiosities. Rainwater is our greatest free resource—let’s learn together how to catch it!
About James Ryder:
n spring of 2022, James Michael Ryder founded the Hillside Earth-Arts Lab [HEAL] in El Cerrito, CA to revive a neglected 10th of an acre, raise chickens, grow food ecologically, and to create home for human and more than human communities.
A lifelong gardener, educator, yogin, and writer, James has earned two certificates in Permaculture Design: the first from Occidental Arts Ecology Center then, in summer of 2024, from Whole Systems Design in Vermont’s Mad River Valley.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Sci, Tech, Engineering & Math | Literacy, Learning & Lectures |
Wheelchair accessible. Request sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, materials in large print, braille, or other accommodations by calling 510-981-6195 (Library) or the 510-981-6347 (City of Berkeley TDD line). Please refrain from scented products during public programs.
Many library programs are funded by the generous support of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library. Thank you, Friends!
