Straw Bale Gardening - Joel Karsten
Karsten will speak to the audience about how to grow a bountiful garden in decomposing bales of straw without using herbicides, insecticides or fungicides and without weeding. Plant a wide variety of vegetables, root crops, vining crops, fruits and even beautiful flower gardens directly into your conditioned straw bales. Karsten's book, "Straw Bale Gardens" was applauded by the New York Times writer Michael Tortorello as a "transformative garden technology for under $100". Generating over 600 media appearances and launching Karsten's book to the bestseller list, it has made a big impact on the gardening world over the past few years.
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Learn how to grow a bountiful garden in bales of straw; never again do the heavy lifting or bending required with traditional soil based gardens. This easy gardening method will help you create a beautiful and productive garden without lifting a shovel and using soil. Participant evaluations and anecdotal responses will be collected.
75% of the surveys filled out strongly agreed that they would not have had the experience of attending the straw bale program if it had not been held at the library.
Heron Lake Library scheduled a program the same day to reduce the contract.