🎤 Instructor: Austin Davenport

📅 Date: Saturday, July 25, 2026

⏰ Time: 10 AM

📍Location: The Natural Gardener

💚 Cost: Free (Donations Accepted for Blocks )

Here in Central Texas, our soils desperately need more fungal activity. This would ensure a strong diversity of soil cooperators active in the soil food web, breaking down organic matter and feeding your plants!

Come out for a discussion to learn about Johnson-Su Bioreactors together, a low-maintenance, passive composting system that yields highly fungal compost! This design was created by husband-wife duo Dr. David Johnson and Hui Chun Su during Johnson's PhD research at New Mexico State University. The method has since been modified to make backyard composting very easy.

This presentation is ideal for composters of any experience level. We’ll talk about materials, maintenance, and how to achieve a new level of soil microbiology on a home scale.

We will have spent mushroom blocks for people to use to get started composting. You can make a donation here and pick-up anytime at the Natural Gardener.

About the Instructor

Austin, from Austin, is a long time gardener and farm nerd in the Central Texas scene. Through volunteer farming and engaging in outreach he actively pursues ways to improve the local food system with the aim of cultivating community.

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