Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition Learn practical skills from some of the events we attended across the country in 2024. Sample some of our favorite talks to improve your garden, food forest, home, and local community.
  • 5 videos
Speakers K-State Extension Master Gardeners
K-State Extension Master Gardeners Kansas State University
Erin Hamilton
Erin Hamilton The Mushroom Conservatory
Curt Cable
Curt Cable Hollow Handcrafts
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Videos

Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
1. Integrated Pest Management Primer
Protect your garden plants and vegetable yields from pests without having an adverse affect on the environment. Master Gardener Kevin Siek shares different strategies for mitigating pests in a way that poses the least possible hazard to people, property, and environment.
K-State Extension Master Gardeners
K-State Extension Master Gardeners Kansas State University
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition•Growing Mushrooms from Home
2. Growing Mushrooms at Home
What kinds of mushrooms can you grow at home? Erin Hamilton shares how to grow mushrooms indoors or outside in your garden, as well as some of the amazing ways that mushrooms are contributing to a more sustainable future. Are you ready to grow your own mushrooms at home? Try one of Erin's mushroom growing kits that she makes for her business, The Mushroom Conservatory.
Erin Hamilton
Erin Hamilton The Mushroom Conservatory
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition•Growing Mushrooms from Home
3. Troubleshoot Your Mushroom Growing Q&A
Do you need a grow tent to grow mushrooms? Will growing mushrooms indoors mess up your other indoor ferments? Follow along with this Q&A about mushroom growing with mushroom expert Erin Hamilton of The Mushroom Conservatory.
Erin Hamilton
Erin Hamilton The Mushroom Conservatory
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
4. Old-Fashioned Broom Making
Plastic fiber broom falling apart? Take up the time-honored handicraft of broom making. Learn from a longtime Appalachian craftsman how to make a broom from broom corn, a piece of wood, and some string.
Curt Cable
Curt Cable Hollow Handcrafts
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
5. Growing, Marketing, and Cooking Pawpaws
Can you grow pawpaws as a market crop? Can pawpaws be toxic? Learn how to grow and cook pawpaws in your backyard or on your farm from Chris Chmiel's talk at the Pawpaw Festival 2024.
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