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Ecology Action Mini-Farm. Willits, CA

John Jeavons is offering a Course consisting of three, 1 1/2-Hour Seminars on Designing and Planning Your Garden/Mini-Farm for the Future. The course will enable participants to "Design from the Heart in 5 Minutes A Complete Diet Garden". Learn how to easily choose the crops for yourself and your family for this year's garden, and to easily plan what to do each week for a productive and tasty harvest. John is the author of How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine

The three seminars are taken one-after-the-other on
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the 25th Annual NOFA/MASS Winter Conference.
Participants will be registering for all 3 sessions.

Session 1 - Carbon (Compost) and Calorie Crops (60% of your area): Winter and summer grains and other crops that produce a large amount of compost material/food for the soil microbes while producing a significant number of calories for eating.

Crops: Wheat, Cereal Rye, Oats, Barley, Triticale, Corn, Sorghum, Amaranth, Quinoa, Pearl Millet, Fava Beans, Sunflowers, Filberts and Grapes for table, raisins and wine.

Session 2 - Special Root Crops (30% of your area): Crops that produce a large amount of calories to eat -- 5 to 20 times per unit of area per unit of time!

Crops: Potatoes, Garlic, Parsnips, Leeks, Sweet Potatoes, Jerusalem Artichokes and Salsify.

Session 3 - Vegetable and Income Crops (10% of your area): All the other vegetable crops that enhance the diversity of your diet with flavor and additional vitamins and minerals, plus crops that produce a large amount of income from a small area.

Crops include:

For Vegetables: Tomatoes, Lettuce, Onions, Sweet Corn, Watermelon, Cucumbers, Snap Beans, Carrots, Cantaloupe.
For Income: Salad Mix, Radishes, Lavender Wands, Early Bunching Onions, Garlic, and Basil

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The three seminars are taken one-after-the-other on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the 25th Annual NOFA/MASS Winter Conference. Participants will be registering for all 3 sessions.

The three seminars are taken one-after-the-other on
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the 25th Annual NOFA/MASS Winter Conference.
Participants will be registering for all 3 sessions.