UPCOMING EVENTS 2025

Gardening with Soil Health @ the SWCD Demo Garden

Free In-Depth Workshops – Multiple Dates – Join any or all!

Upcoming Dates:

April 29 Tuesday 6:00 PM
May 14 Wednesday 6:00 PM

May 16 Friday 10:00 AM
June 7 Saturday 9:30 AM

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Tour the vegetable garden with Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist, focusing on:
– Soil Health – Crop Rotation – No-Till Vegetables – Cover Crops – Mulching – Compost – Tarping – Wildlife Planting for Beneficial Insects & Pollinators –

Gardening with Soil Health workshop flyer

Indiana Cover Crop Tool Webinar
March 25, 2025 11 AM to 12 PM Eastern

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lX8YtKRVSQOd-X0VpViBng

Learn to use the Indiana Cover Crop Tool and resources to understand and plan seeding rates and mixes for your garden. Use the tool to figure out how much seed you need for the whole garden or by each bed. See examples of rates and uses of some go-to cover crop mixes! The Excel and Google Sheet versions of this tool are located under the Cover Crop section at: marionswcd.org/soilhealth/. Webinar with Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist.

PAST EVENTS 2025

Vegetable Gardening with Cover Crops Webinar
March 19, 2025 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST
March 19, 2025 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

Take a photographic trip through the season to examine the management of cover crops in a no-till garden. Explore cover crop strategies and understand how to plan, plant, terminate, and transition to the crops effectively. Learn details about rotations, timing, and using winter-killed cover crops, legumes, and high-biomass mixes. All while boosting soil health. Webinar with Kevin Allison, Soil Health Specialist

Link below

Cover Crops in Raised Beds & Small Spaces Webinar
Friday, Feb 21, 2025 1 PM to 2 PM EST

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Soil Health Workshops are in collaboration with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Urban Soil Health, SARE, and Clean Water Indiana. The USDA-NRCS is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender. This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number 2024-38640-42989 through the North Central Region SARE program under project number ENC24-233. USDA is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Kevin Allison shows tools to workshop visitors in garden