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Build a No-Dig Lasagna Bed
A completed cardboard, compost, and mulch bed ready to settle or plant.
Activities at and around Advent Center at Berivoi
Explore everything available through Advent Center at Berivoi, both here at the center and on nearby outings.
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Build and Charge a Three-Bay Compost System
A functioning three-bay compost system with its first properly layered pile.
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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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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Food Preservation Lab
A completed batch of preserved food.
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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.
Neighbor Skill & Service Exchange
Neighbor Skill & Service Exchange is a guided Sunday visit to help an older neighbor, farmer, household or family with a real task they have identified. The experience begins by listening. We meet the neighbor, learn something about their life and ask what would genuinely be useful. The host may then teach us a traditional skill or show us how they care for their garden, fruit trees, animals, tools or household. In return, we contribute willing hands to work such as weeding, pruning, stacking firewood, harvesting, carrying materials, repairing a fence or completing another appropriate task. This is not a charitable performance in which we arrive as rescuers. It is an exchange of dignity: the neighbor possesses knowledge and experience we need, while we may possess time, strength and companionship they need. Afterward, the group reflects on what it learned about service, humility, village wisdom and the difference between assuming a need and listening for one. The exact activity, physical demands and clothing requirements are confirmed before each visit.
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