The 1st Annual 2009 Advanced Growers' Winter Seminar,
Seminar on Soil Mineral Nutrition with Arden Andersen
Was held February 5-7, 2009 (From 8:30 a.m. Thursday to 5:30 p.m. Saturday)
at the Barre Congregational Church, 30 Park Street, Barre, Mass.
There were 88 people attending this exciting three day intensive seminar. The participants learned basic conceptual frameworks for biological agriculture. NOFA/Mass is collaborating with the Real Food Campaign to put on a series of field trainings following up from the Arden Andersen Seminar that will demonstrate how to put these concepts into action. These events will take place in May, July and September of 2009 at three different sites in Western, Central, and Eastern Massachusetts. For specific details, please see: www.nofamass.org/programs/extensionevents/nutrientdensity.php
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For questions about NOFA/Mass Extension Events, contact Extension Events Organizer, Ben Grosscup at ben.grosscup@nofamass.org.
Below is information that was posted for the February 2009 NOFA/Mass Advanced Growers' Winter Seminar.
Check back soon for information about the 2010 Winter Seminar.
In this three-day seminar, you will you learn to apply the natural sciences to practical farm management to achieve results. The seminar focuses on the relationship between healthy soils and better plant and livestock production. The information conveyed is the foundation for an ecologically sustainable agriculture with high yield and quality nutrition. It applies to all agricultural sectors - fruit and vegetable, pastoral, dairy, cropping, and horticultural.
From this course you will:
- Learn how biochemistry, physics and plant biology can help guide daily farm management decisions.
- Gain insight into how improved soil biology reduces weed, disease and insect pests.
- Be taught the testing and evaluation methods needed for profitable soil, plant and livestock management.
- Understand how fertilization and management practices affect the nutritional quality of crops and what the implications are for human health.
- Be provided formulas and suggestions for fertilization.
The seminar will be conducted as a lecture with a power point. A course book of the power point will be provided and attendees may purchase a recording of the talk to be mailed after the course. Be prepared to focus and learn more than you may have imagined was involved in agricultural production.
BIO: Arden Andersen is a soil scientist, agricultural consultant and a physician. He specializes in the management of soils, crops and animals in a productive, profitable and environmentally sustainable way. He is a consultant on education, product formulation and market development, and a world authority in biological agriculture. He holds a BSc. in agricultural education, a PhD in Biophysics and has a medical degree.
He consults to agricultural enterprises worldwide, gives well attended courses in the USA, Australia, and New Zealand and practices medicine in Goshen, Indiana. He is the author of cutting edge books that bridge the gap between soil and plant science and human health: The Anatomy of Life and Energy in Agriculture, Science in Agriculture and Real Medicine, Real Health.
Publicity
Download a poster on this event to put up in a public space
Read a Press release, Organic Farmers Host Seminar on Maximum Nutrition, from January 21, 2009 on the seminar.
Register for the Seminar
Registration for the seminar is $195. With the NOFA member discount (applicable for all Chapters) and the early-bird discount (must sign-up before January 17), it is $165. Pre-registration is required and seminar enrollment is capped at 150 people -- first come, first served.
Download Registration Form (PDF)
Direct questions to: Ben Grosscup, Event Coordinator, ben.grosscup@nofamass.org, 413-658-5374.
Policy on Registrations, Cancellations, and Refunds
Registration forms can be sent by postal mail, or scanned and sent by e-mail attachment to ben (dot) grosscup (at) nofamass (dot) org. No other online registration is available. Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis and are acceptable only once payment (check or credit card) is received. Attendance is capped at 150 people. Cancellations for the 2009 Advanced Growers' Winter Seminar will be honored with refunds (except for $10/person processing fee) until January 28, 2009
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