Abundant Gardening Using Water Saving Strategies

Citizens Water Advocacy Group presents:  Drought Resistant and Climate Resilient Gardens

Presenter Ashley Fine teaches water conservation through school gardens. This presentation will describe several water-saving strategies that can be taught and implemented with students in school gardens, including active and passive rain harvesting, drought-tolerant crop selection, mulching and soil-building, subsurface irrigation with ollas and watering stakes, and intentional use of shade. It will include a charming short video where students demonstrate their understanding of local water resource issues.

Presenter info:
Ashley Fine has been working in school gardens for over fifteen years.  Currently, she is a full-time garden educator at Skyview School where she teaches an integrated science and social studies garden-centered curriculum to kindergarten through eighth grade students. She works with students and parent volunteers to maintain several edible school yards and a quarter acre food forest and native plant garden. During the growing season, she helps facilitate a weekly student-run farm stand at Skyview school. In addition, Ashley also runs an after school clubs, summer camps and a gardening program at the Launch Pad Teen Center. Ashley serves on the Steering Committee for Slow Food Prescott and helps organize events for a professional learning community made up of local garden educators.

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