June’s workshop was all about pests. You can find the recap in Burmese (ဗမာ) and Nepali (नेपाली) in the YouTube videos. Keep scrolling past the videos to find the recap in English.

At June’s workshop we talked about pests that harm our plants and beneficial insects that are good for our plants.

We created a document that has the most popular of both kinds and included pictures of the insects at different stages. You can find that here.
Catching insects in the egg stage is really important! If you can squash them at this stage there will be less adult insects in your plants.
We are selling organic insecticidal soap for .50 cents that you can also use to help control your pests.
We are also selling fish emulsion, an organic fertilizer, for .50 cents that help your summer plants grow.
Please let anyone on staff know if you’d like to purchase those.

At the workshop, we talked about the water system of the whole farm. The system includes the rain barrels, the drip irrigation and the well.

Water for Your Garden

When there are long periods without rain, staff water your garden one time each week with drip irrigation from the well.
You can use mulch to keep water in the ground. We have straw that you can purchase from the garden store. A long time gardener, Paw Shu shared that she mulches using weeds that she pulls up.
You can also try building an olla, which is a practice of watering for many Indigenous communities around the world. You can see how to build one out of two clay pots here.
Moon, another gardener, shared that she tried making something similar with water bottles in her home garden last year. You can see how to make it here.

What are some of the ways you conserve water in your garden? Add a comment below so we can continue to learn from each other.

Pest Workshop

Water Workshop