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Advent Center at Berivoi

Activities here at Advent Center at Berivoi

Discover workshops, shared meals, practical projects, and other experiences hosted right here.

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Build a Hügelkultur Bed

A finished woody-core growing bed capped with soil and compost.

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Build a No-Dig Lasagna Bed

A completed cardboard, compost, and mulch bed ready to settle or plant.

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Build a Rainwater Collection Station

Gutter connection, first-flush plan, and supported storage tank.

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Build and Charge a Three-Bay Compost System

A functioning three-bay compost system with its first properly layered pile.

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Build and Fill a Raised Garden Bed

A framed, leveled, filled, and ready-to-plant raised bed.

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Build and Plant a Cold Frame or Low Tunnel

A functioning season extender with a planted crop.

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Herbal Tea Walk & Blending Bar

Explore fresh or dried herbs such as mint, lemon balm, chamomile and thyme, then create and taste personal tea blends.

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Mulched Paths & Moisture-Control

Completed garden paths and protected growing beds using grass, straw, leaves, or wood chips.

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Seasonal Berry Harvest & Jam-Making Workshop

A seasonal garden-to-pantry experience in which participants pick ripe berries, sort and wash the harvest, process the fruit by crushing, juicing or simmering, and turn it into a finished batch of homemade jam. The workshop follows the fruit from the plant to the labeled jar, teaching how seasonal abundance can be preserved for the months ahead.

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Autumn Garlic, Bulbs & Perennial Division Day

Planted garlic and bulbs plus divided and relocated perennial plants.

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Berry, Grape & Vine Pruning and Trellising

Canes and vines pruned, selected, tied, and supported.

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Build a Fence Section & Garden Gate

An aligned fence section and functional gate.

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Build a Potting Bench or Garden Worktable

A completed garden workbench.

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Compost & Soil Life Workshop

Build or turn compost, compare materials and learn how air, water, carbon, nitrogen and soil life affect decomposition.

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Compost Tea Workshop

A practical garden workshop in which participants harvest stinging nettle or comfrey, prepare a 24-hour plant-based compost tea, and apply the finished liquid to crops at the Advent Center. The experience connects plant identification, soil fertility, closed-loop gardening and immediate hands-on application.

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Create a Traditional Tilled Garden Bed

A measured, cultivated, amended, leveled, and ready-to-plant bed.

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Crop Support & Tomato Training Workshop

Installed stakes or trellis plus tied and trained tomato plants.

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Direct Sowing & Succession Planting Workshop

Properly spaced direct-seeded rows plus a second-sowing schedule.

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Dormant Orchard Pruning & Tree Training

Several fruit trees pruned and trained with a documented structure.

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Ellen G. White Tree Planting

One or more correctly positioned, planted, watered, mulched, protected, and documented fruit trees.

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Fall Garden Reset, Leaf Mold & Winter Protection

Cleared beds, protected perennials and trees, a leaf-mold pile, and winter mulch.

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Food Forest & Restoration Ecology Walk

Explore the restoration area and food-forest logic while identifying useful trees, wild foods, layers, pollinators, beneficial insects and non-chemical pest relationships.

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Food Preservation Lab

A completed batch of preserved food.

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Fruit Tree Grafting & Budding Workshop

Grafted practice stock or selected orchard trees.

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Garden Doctor: Weeds, Pests, Disease & Beneficial Insects

A real garden inspection, diagnosis log, and prioritized response plan.

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Garden-to-Table Harvest & Cooking

Harvest seasonal vegetables and herbs from the Berivoi garden, then turn them into a shared plant-based meal.

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Install a Drip Irrigation & Watering System

A functioning irrigation zone with filter, lines, emitters, and a completed test run.

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Microgreens Workshop

Grow nutrient-dense microgreens from seed to harvest in clean indoor trays, with practical guidance on sowing, moisture, light, hygiene and repeat harvest planning. This workshop can run year-round.