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Continuing Education

Guest Speaker Video Recordings

Date Recorded Title & Description
October 1, 2024 Dilafruz Williams, Professor Emerita, Portland State University
September 3, 2024 Doug Millar, SMRCD
March 5, 2024 BioChar with Austin Liu of All Power Labs
February 6, 2024 Bokashi Fermentation  by Dr. Michael Vincent Rodriguez, UC Merced
January 9, 2024 Soil Health, Composting and Urban Ag by Dr. Joshua Garcia
   
November 7, 2023 Meet Victoria!
October 3, 2023 Compost Application to Reduce GHGs by Cole Smith
September 5, 2023 Compost & Carbon Sequestration by Radomir Schmidt
August 1, 2023 Using Microbes to Break Down "Compostable" plastics by Michael Cohen (Slides here)
June 6, 2023 Using Compost to Bring Urban Soils Back to Life (Remediation) by Sally Brown
May 2, 2023 Build Sensational Soil by Making Sensational Compost by Stephen Andrews
April 4, 2023 Progressive Windrows by Dan Hafeman
March 7, 2023 Bokashi by Tess Feigenbaum (Slides here)
February 7, 2023 Human Composting by Katrina Spade
January 3, 2023 Vermicompost Myth-Busting by Tom Boehme
   
November 1, 2022 Organic Materials Advisor position & policy by Stephanie Mar and Cole
October 4, 2022 Compost Tea & Bokashi by Luke Besmer
September 6, 2022 Cover cropping in a home garden - Drought considerations, given by Master Gardener Candace Simpson
June 7, 2022 Program Discussion with Volunteers and Cole
May 3, 2022 An Evening with Robert Rynk, Author/Editor of The Composting Handbook
April 5, 2022 Recycling & Waste Reduction, County of Santa Clara, Michele Young
   
December 2021 No meeting
October 5, 2021 Lynn Fang, California Alliance for Community Composting, Module 02 - Compost for Soil Health
September 7, 2021 Lynn Fang, California Alliance for Community Composting Module 13 - Compost Quality, Soil Health, Lab Testing
August 3, 2021 Najiha Al Asmar, Community Gardens Program Manager
July 6, 2021 Karrie Reid, Building Resilient Gardens
June 1, 2021 Dan Hafeman, Progressive Composting
May 4, 2021 Biofiltro
April 6, 2021 Steve Fennimore, Weed Science
March 3, 2021 Rob Dentremont, Grace Valley Community Composting
February 2, 2021 Milt McGiffen, Plants, Soil & Carbon
   
December 2020 No Meeting
October 6, 2020 Lynn Wunderlich: Insects and Diseases in the Compost Pile
September 1, 2020 The Compost Crew
August 4, 2020 Derek Bryant, The Compost Gospel
July 7, 2020 Geoffrey Koch, Defining Practices for Soil Health
June 2, 2020 Deborah Meckler, What to do with the Body