Speaker Directory

The BC Council of Garden Clubs has compiled a list of speakers who are willing to speak to garden clubs and organizations on various garden related topics. While this list is fairly comprehensive, it does not contain all the names of knowledgeable speakers in BC. If you would like to suggest a name for this list or if you wish to have your name added to this list, please contact the Speaker List Coordinator.

Please note the following:

  • The BC Council of Garden Clubs does not accept any responsibility for the quality or the content of any presentation by these individuals.
  • It is the responsibility of the gardening organization to negotiate the terms of the presentation with the speaker (including topic, travel and expenses, fees, etc.)
  • Fees listed are provided as guideline and are subject to change at the discretion of the speaker without notice to the Council.
  • Please click on a speaker name from the table below for more detail.

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NameKayla Siefried (The Compost Education Centre)
EmailEmail hidden; Javascript is required.
Websitecompost.bc.ca
Instagram@viccomposted
Phone(250) 386-9676
General Topics
  • Vegetables
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Garden Design, landscaping
  • Herbs, growing and using
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Specialty Plants
  • Compost, Soil health, vegetable and fruit gardening
Sample topics
  • Composting Basics, Advanced Composting, Soil health for the Backyard Gardener, Build Incredible Soil, Plan and Prepare your Garden, Grow Your Own Food 101, Seed Starting, Season Extension and Basic Food Growing Practices, Planning your Year Round Veg Garden, Putting Your Garden To Bed, Microgreens and Sprouting, Food Preservation Basics, Hot Water Bath Canning, and more!
Speaker Profile

Kayla is the steward of the Compost Education Centre demonstration gardens and the curator and main educator of the Adult Education Program. She can be found growing seedlings for plant sales, working with volunteers to keep gardens healthy, flipping hot compost, arranging expert instructors to teach workshops, or out in the community teaching about soil health, organic gardening, and Do-It-Yourself tasks that increase our climate resilience. Kayla holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, and she continued on with practical hands-on permaculture training, gardening and farming internships in various places on Turtle Island and beyond.

Kayla is passionate about sharing her knowledge with people young and old through formal and informal education. She’s facilitated youth programs for sustainability all across Canada, Guatemala, and Cambodia, and has a zest for travel and adventure. Kayla sees the act of growing food and stewarding the soil as one that can heal on many levels. A keen sustainability activist, Kayla finds meaning in advocating for and living an environmentally sustainable life that involves bicycles, healthy food systems, and a good amount of outdoor dancing!

Speaker's Fee$100 - $250