For its evening program this month, the Gila Native Plant Society has invited Ivy Stephens-Etheridge, a Youth Civic Infrastructure Intern with the New Earth Project, to give a presentation on her experience. The Upper Gila Watershed Alliance’s New Earth Project uses Johnson-Su bioreactors to turn waste into compost containing living micro-organisms. Ivy will describe local agricultural use of the New Earth Project's living earth and regenerative practice. She will also share what she has learned about liquid carbon vs. degradation pathways, the rhizophagy cycle, the principles of regenerative agriculture, and how and why microbes increase plant nutrition.

The program will be hybrid – in person and via Zoom – on Friday, March 20th, at 7:00 pm. All are welcome. It will be live on the WNMU campus in Harlan Hall, Room 111. (Harlan Hall is at the corner of 12th and Alabama Streets in Silver City.) Those who prefer to attend online may request a Zoom link from gilanative@gmail.com.