Recorded: Building and Maintaining a Raised Bed Garden

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Course Delivery: Recorded ZOOM Session

Recording Length: 45 minutes

Cost: $10- $20 sliding scale

ML Altobelli has 40+ years of experience creating healthy sustainable soils that grow colorful mixed flower and vegetable gardens, healthy environments and happy people.  From the days of dealing with slugs at a retail garden to current projects that integrate top quality veggies into flower gardens, increase food for pollinators early and late in the season and soil development at every turn, ML’s curiosity and practical outlook are driven by her fascination with soils and what can be done to improve them for the sake of the plants and the animals and humans that interact with them. She has collected a BS in Animal Science, multiple certificates from Arnold Arboretum, Green School and others. ML built a fine garden landscaping business (M.L.’s Greenery in Motion) and was a founding member of the Ecological Landscape Alliance. She (and her sister) own Woody End Farm (with ducks, dairy goats, hugelkuture beds and custom growing) and she is currently the chair of her local agricultural commission, runs local training programs and experiments to find ecological and organic solutions that suit each individual site.

Program Description

Have you been thinking about starting a raised bed garden to grow your own vegetables or flowers? Or do you have raised bed gardens that have become less productive over the years? ML Altobelli of ML’s Greenery in Motion joined us on April 20, 2021 for a virtual workshop on building and maintaining raised bed gardens for optimal production. Her methods focus on improving soil health through beneficial microorganisms and fungi to combat drought, compaction, and limited mineral availability. This 45 minute recording of ML’s presentation provides a wealth of information that we hope will help your garden produce more than you ever thought possible.

Raised beds are the future because raised beds can be built almost anywhere and can become ultra-productive, providing for a family or an income or both. Every suburban/urban area and even many, many rural home sites have totally messed up soils.  All of these soils have been massively disturbed and have very little in common with farmland of any kind – although many house-lots are cut out of old farms….and soil is critical to the success of any garden.  Learn to use a variety of tools to understand what you have as a base line and work from there. Anything else is a waste of your time.

Please contact us with any questions at office@fabric-of-life.org.

Our sliding scale fee allows us to keep these programs accessible to a wide range of individuals. The ‘admirer’ option covers the cost of the instructor fee, program support, marketing, and administration. The ‘friend’ option covers all of this and allows for a small profit margin to be contributed towards sustaining Fabric of Life programming for next year. The ‘enthusiast’ option covers all of this and allows for us to begin to sustain Fabric of Life programming for generations to come.

FOL will refund 90% of your fee if you cancel more than 30 days before the beginning of the program. 10% will be retained for administrative services. Cancellation with less than 30 days notice will automatically be rolled over as a credit for another program of your choice within the next year from the date of the original program. FOL will maintain the funds and carry them forward once you determine what program you would like to utilize them for. If there is a balance after paying for the second program, it will not be refunded. If a program does not run due to circumstances beyond our control, participants will receive a full refund of the fees paid.