Garden for the Environment: Eco-Friendly Garden Pest Management

In this engaging and informative workshop, you’ll gain insights into how to make your garden healthy and resilient and how to invite and support beneficial insects, including pollinators. This holistic approach to gardening will help you control garden pests and diseases without toxic pesticides and build strong, beautiful ecosystems. You’ll also learn about the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), which offers clear and practical ways to keep your garden inhabitants in balance so you can have a welcoming and attractive outdoor space.

Workshop instructor Charlotte Canner is an Integrated Pest Management Advocate and Educator with the Our Water Our World program. She is also a coordinator of the California Alliance for Community Composting’s “Community Composting for Green Spaces” grant program sponsored by CalRecycle. She graduated from GFE’s Gardening and Composting Educator Training Program (Get Up!) iin 2015. Charlotte loves sharing her knowledge and passion for soil health, regenerative gardening practices, and building healthy, diverse ecosystems.