July 28 Organic gardening and soil care with Charles Portney - CRFG LA

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Place: Sepulveda Garden Center
16633 Magnolia Blvd., Encino, CA 91316

Program: Charles Portney

Charles Portney, a life member of our LA Chapter as well as the West LA Chapter has a beautiful organic garden consisting of
about 200 fruit trees and multiple herbs and spices. He also grows over a hundred varieties of vegetables.
Charles will talk to us on the underlying principle of all organic gardening; taking care of the soil. Pay attention to the health of the
soil and the soil will take care of the health of the plants. FDR said, “the nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”. Building up the
soil results in more successful edible gardening with ultimately less work.
Charles will also be generously donating the following plants for our plant sale: tamarillos, sugar-cane, babacos, cherry of the rio-
grande, blackberries, peppinos, thornless cactus pear, pineapple sage, etc.
Charles has requested that before our members have a chance to get to the plants, he be given an opportunity to discuss what
he has brought in for the sale. Please note, that none of these items will be available until after the lecture is over and David
officially opens up the plant sale.
Let’s follow Charles’ generous lead and also bring in plants for the sale.

The topic sounds general but it's close to me and it'd be nice to see someone's garden. Hopefully there will be lots of photos.

Here's the speaker's bio from several years ago: http://festivaloffruit.org/Charles_Portney.html