Sustainable Garden Management

Northwest Conservation District presents:

SUSTAINABLE GARDEN MANAGEMENT

• Focuses on vegetable gardens but practices also relate to ornamental gardens.
• What “sustainability” means in the garden.
• Soil health and the “Soil Food Web”.
• Soil testing and plant observations.
• Beneficial impacts of sustainable practices, including use of compost.
• Water conservation – methods of capture and re-use.
• Techniques of soil preparation and soil care.
• Pruning garden plants to improve productivity.
• Role of beneficial insects and how to promote them.

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About Presenter: Cynthia Rabinowitz

Soil and wetland science; Environmental horticulture (UConn. 1980)
Landscape Design Certificate (UConn, Bartlett Arboretum, 1988)
Permaculture Design Certificate (2008)
New Haven County Agriculture and Community Resource Development
Agent for UConn. Cooperative Extension System 1980 to 1985,
Owner/operator of The Hidden Garden greenhouses, Bethlehem, CT. 1985-2011
Consulting soil and wetland scientist; currently at Northwest Conservation District 1985-present
Founding Director of CT-NOFA and Bethlehem Land Trust
Interim Adjunct Instructor: Southern Connecticut State University in
Environmental Design; 2013
Adjunct Instructor: University of New Haven in Wetlands Ecology 2015-2017
Guest-lecturer in Permaculture, at The Graduate Institute, Woodbridge, CT.