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    Sustainable Soil Management-The Natural Alchemy of building soil fertility’

    05.06.2017-09.06.2017

    Sustainable Soil Management
    ‘Increase fertility, reduce costs and improve harvest’
    A 5-day course
    Trust Natures® Bio-Vital™ System
    Course curriculum

    Part 1: 3-day course - ‘ Building soil fertility’
    Part 2: 2-day course - Make your own Bio-Fertilizers and soil amendments
    Session 2 (2nd morning session day 1): 90 minutes (white board presentation) Soil Pro-biotic (specialist ‘compost tea’) and specialist compost as a primary key to a holistic farm management system.
    Sessions 3 & 4 (afternoon day 1): 2 x 90 minute sessions (white board and projector) Understanding the science of soil microbes.
    Sessions 5 & 6 (morning sessions day 2): The science and practice of making soil pro-biotixâ„¢ (AACT actively aerated compost tea)
    Session 7 & 8 (afternoon day 2): Compost tea brewing as a plant and soil pro-biotic: Hands on experience of the technical aspects of making compost tea and growing soil microbes. Q & A on-going through this process.
    Sessions 9 & 10 (morning sessions day 3): 2 x 90 min sessions: The science and practice of making specialist compost.
    Sessions 11 & 12 (afternoon sessions day 3): Hands on composting
    PART 2: Curriculum Days 4 & 5 of the ‘soils workshop’
    Make your own Bio-Fertilizers and organic preparations
    (Bio-fertilizers: 8 x 90 min sessions over 2 days)
    Bio-fertilizer and mineral preparations
    Sustainable plant nutrition and ‘food for free’
    Session 1 : (morning session day 4)
    (Connection between the nutritional quality of plants, plant stress and plant pathogens begin hands on outside)
    Session 2: (morning day 4) Introduction to Bio-fertilizer 90 minutes
    Session 3 & 4: 90 minutes each (afternoon day 4)
    Session 6 & 7: Mineral preparations: 90 min each (outdoor and hands on)
    Instructions for some mineral preparations elaboration
    Session 8: 1.5 hours (last session day 5) Working with the microscope, looking at the microbial activity of the compost, the compost tea and the bio-fertilizer Acknowledgements:
    Eugenio Gras gras@coas.mx
    Dr. Christine Jones amazingcarbon.com.au
    Dr. Elaine Ingham Soilfoodwebinst.com
    Further information contact: paul@trustnature.com.au

     
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