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Soil Food Web - 2012
GreenFriends and Common Vision present
Soil Food Web Workshop with Dr. Elaine Ingham
Feb 6-10
M.A. Center
Feb 6-7: Introduction to Soil Food Web Approach
Feb 8: Compost Intensive
Feb 9: Compost Tea Technology
Feb 10: Light Microscope Training
Sign up for individual days or the whole course.
In this course you will learn to:
- Understand Soil Microlife
- Increase production through top soil health
- Revolutionize your management of soil
- Enlist fungi to mine rocks for Phosphorus (for real)
- Eliminate the need for nitrogen fertilizers
- Brew and analyze Compost Tea
- Make biologically powerful compost
Dr. Elaine Ingham has revolutionized how the science and
farming
communities understand the life of soil. Elaine's soil food web
approach teaches how to cultivate a soil that is teeming with the right
balance of beneficial micro organisms. Through decades of
intensive research, Elaine has evolved age-old compost and compost tea
strategies to help thousands of farms, golf courses, ranches, and
landscapes to reach incredible productivity without the use of chemical
fertilizers or pesticides. Dr. Elaine Ingham is an energetic,
easy-to-understand speaker who has addressed audiences as diverse as
the United Nations and Potato Grower Conferences, to explain what life
in the soil is all about.
Course Costs:
Common Vision, GreenFriends, and Biologic Systems worked hard to make
this course the most affordable of Dr. Elaine Ingham's standard
courses. May this information help thousands!
$265 ~ Intro to the Soil Foodweb (Feb 6-7)
$140 ~ Compost Technology (Feb 8)
Strongly recommended to attend Intro class
$140 ~ Compost Tea Technology (Feb 9)
Strongly recommended to attend Compost class
$160
~ Light Microscope Class (Feb 10)
Participants who bring their own Light Microscope will have a greater
opportunity for hands-on training. Microscope should meet the
below specifications.
Organic
vegetarian lunch and snacks are included in your registration
fee. Limited Work Trade options are available. For more info on
work
trade email info [at] commonvision.org.
Hotel:
Room costs in San Ramon or Castro Valley range form $40/night to
$120/night. You will receive a list of local hotels and online
hotel booking options to assist your room search. Participants
are
responsible for booking their own hotel rooms and coordinating their
own transportation to and from the M.A. Center.
Microscopes for the Light Microscope Class must meet or exceed the following minimum specifications:
Eyepieces: binocular, 10x WF (Wide Field) Abbe condenser: 1.25 N.A.
(Numerical Aperture) (15x or 20x eyepieces are often sold as an
"upgrade" with iris diaphragm on an adjustable stage but rarely improve
image quality) Objective Lenses: 4x, 10x, 40x Light source: high
intensity, minimum 20W halogen (100x objective lenses, or others
greater than 40x will (Avoid mercury based light sources. Microbes
under mercury light not be used for the techniques taught in this
class) often die before they can be examined) Microscopes meeting these
criteria start at around $400. A web search for the phrase "Series J
microscope" will yield one example at the low end. For optics good
enough to allow for moderate to heavy use without discomfort, the least
expensive model we have seen is the Leica CME, which tends to cost in
the $1100-$1500 price range. Two vendors known to have decent prices
for Leica microscopes are: Aquatic Ecosystems (www.aquaticeco.com) and
SEO Enterprises (www.seoenterprises.com). These links are for
information only and do not constitute an endorsement of any kind.
Refund Info:
Payment must be included to reserve space in the class on a first-come,
first-served basis. No refunds are given in the week prior to a class.
Refunds before the 1 week period will be subject to a $50 cancellation
fee.
Admission begins 1/2 hours before class. Workshops start promptly at
their scheduled times (9:30 AM for morning sessions). Location: M.A.
Center, 10200 Crow Canyon Rd, Castro Valley, CA 94552.
BART Info:
The M.A. Center will be coordinating pick-ups At 8:30 AM and drop-offs daily at 7:00 pm – at the Castro Valley BART station.
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