AT23-320 Hybrid NPSOT: Get the Dirt on Soil – Learn How Your Soil Can Hold More Water, Fredericksburg

Event/Webinar Title: AT23-320 Hybrid NPSOT: Get the Dirt on Soil – Learn How Your Soil Can Hold More Water, Fredericksburg

AT-VMS: AT: Native Plant Society of Texas (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Name of NPSOT Chapter, and Presenter)

Comments: AT:23-320 Hybrid NPSOT: Get the Dirt on Soil – Learn How your Soil can hold more Water, Fredericksburg. Presenter:
Peggy Sechrist (AT=1h)

Event Date: 09/26/2023
Event Time: 7:00p-8:00p

Event Summary: This month’s speaker at the Fredericksburg Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) will focus on what we need to do to help our soil hold more water.

Event Description: Peggy Sechrist, an advisor to the Soil for Water Initiative (a project of the National Center for Appropriate Technology), will share key soil health principles that have been emerging in the field of soil science for the last 10 years. This talk will be beneficial for everyone regardless if you manage a large ranch or have a small city yard. Through application of holistic management, the Sechrists were the first ranchers in Texas to create a certified organic, grass-fed beef operation in 1995. Because of this management we have seen the return of Eastern gamma grass along the riparian areas and Indian grass returning to the uplands along with many other diverse species of native plants.

Cost: no charge

Register @: not required. Unable to attend in person?
Join the meeting with ZOOM @ 7:00 pm https://npsot-org.zoom.us/j/9598029940
or use
Meeting ID: 959 802 9940 on your zoom app.

Event Location:

St. Joseph’s Halle
212 W. San Antonio St.
Fredericksburg, Texas
United States

Presenter: Peggy Sechrist has 35 years of regenerative agriculture and ranching experience in the Hill Country.Sechrist is a practitioner of holistic management, an approach to land management the helps regenerate degraded landscapes and improve the livelihoods of the people living on them. She and her husband, Richard, have been restoring native species on the ranch they have managed for 30 years. She has been a Professional Certified Educator in Holistic Management since 1992 and is currently an advisor to Elizabeth McGreevy’s “Project Bedrock.”

Contact Information: Holly Simonette,simonetteholly@gmail.com,(830) 992-5491

Organization Website: https://npsot.org/CHAPTERS/FREDERICKSBURG/

Sponsoring Organization: Native Plant Society of Texas, Fredericksburg Chapter