Mar 26: Gardening and microclimate

Join your friends and neighbors, and fellow gardeners for a talk by Master Gardener and Edgewood homeowner Mrea Csorba:  Create a Healthy Garden:  Install a Micro-Climate!

Learn the basics of how to create a healthy zone around your home in an urban setting to control for air pollution, noise pollution, and use heat and cool cross-currents for effective, optimal well being.Techniques to be introduced: erecting wind, air and sound barriers with landscape trees and shrubs; cool zones for summer comfort and solar zones for winter savings; wind tunnels for cross-ventilation and fungal control.  


11 a.m. meet & greet, lecture 11:30 - noon at the Wilkins School Community Center.  Please Register here (free of charge, donations accepted).

Upcoming garden lectures include 
LET’S MAKE A PLAN 
 An actual plan of your garden plot! Grid-lined paper and tracing sheets provided.
CHART THE ARC OF THE SUN
That is, it’s path across your garden space throughout the day and seasonally.
NOTE WIND TUNNELS 
Track good and undesirable air currents that bring harsh winds, cool breezes, even, air pollution.

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