Healthy soil is the key to growing healthy plants, but what is healthy soil? How do you know if you have it? With some hands-on demonstrations, we will also discuss soil texture, porosity and movement of air, water and nutrients in soil.

Presenter Bio: MJ Brovold is a UC Certified Master Gardener passionate about making sustainable gardening approachable for everyone. With a background in food gardening, native habitat, and sustainable, low effort approaches; they're here to convince you that healthy soil is more important and less mysterious than you think.

Carlsbad City Library’s Grow Your Garden program lets you swap succulents, seeds, fruit, vegetables and herbs from your garden with your neighbors and learn new gardening techniques.