Join Al Cairo on Thursday, September 9, 2021, for his hour-long Zoom presentation which begins at noon. Cairo, who, along with help from like-minded Master Gardeners, built a Johnson-Su Bioreactor in 2018 and 2019 at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, will discuss today’s critical climate reality and how gardeners can actively participate in drawing down atmospheric CO₂. He will inform attendees about the Soil Food Web and how to build and use the Johnson-Su Composting Bioreactor to create a fungal dominant compost. This knowledge will allow gardeners to use alternative strategies to grow crops, eliminate chemical inputs, plowing and tilling.

Find a direct link to the Zoom presentation here.

Cairo earned an AAS and BS in Biological Sciences with a concentration in optical methods and biotechnology from New York State’s SUNY system. He worked for 27 years at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo NY, and 13 years at Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Celera Diagnostics, and Quest Diagnostics in San Francisco’s East Bay area, in various fields including tissue culture virology, electron microscopy, automated DNA synthesis and sequencing, and liquid handling robotics.

Green Thumb Education Series Presentations are held from 12 to 1 pm on the second and fourth Thursdays of most months. Talks are currently only being offered by online streaming, due to current social distancing concerns with COVID-19. Please see instructions for accessing the live stream. Presentations and associated printed materials will be archived on the local articles and archived presentations portion of our website. These events are free, but donations to help support the WSU Clallam County Extension Master Gardener program are appreciated.