Don Boekelheide
Area of instruction at CPCC: Organic Gardening
Career accomplishments:
- Peace Corps agriculture training coordinator (Togo, Mali, Niger, other countries), 1984-1986
- School gardening teacher
- Peace Corps volunteer service, Woame, Togo, West Africa, 1980-1984
- Graduate of NCSU Master Gardener Volunteer training, Mecklenburg County, 1998
Related experience:
- MS Agriculture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: internship in organic and biodynamic gardening
- BA, UC Santa Barbara; teaching credential, Cal Poly
- The Farallone's Institute garden, Occidental, C.A.
- "25 Years of Community Gardening" (editor) (ACGA, 2005)
- "Cultivating Common Ground - a harvest of stories from the Wilmore Garden" (editor) (Main Street Press, 2002)
- Many articles for Organic Gardening Magazine, Biocycle, The Charlotte Observer and other publications
Additional interests:
- Community gardening, vegetable growing, ecological gardening.
- Informal, hands-on, community-based, transformative learning and education (Paolo Friere)
- Ecological landscaping, organic gardening, sustainable agriculture
- Urban food production, local farmers' markets, slow food, edible landscaping
- Social justice, environmental justice
- Soil and water conservation, international agriculture development
- Small scale fruit production, urban forestry
- Home composting, vermicomposting
- Green community design (Permaculture/Mollison, Alexander, McHarg)
- Native plants and ecosystems
- Art and music in the garden
- Nitrogen dynamics in the soil/plant system
Affiliations and recognitions:
- Community garden director, Charlotte Urban Ministry Center
- Southeast correspondent and variety tester, Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine
