From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Carbon Economy Series Santa Barbara Upcoming Events/Soil Food Web/Sustainable Land Management/Keyline
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:46:51 -0700
Carbon Economy Series Santa Barbara upcoming events
cosponsored by quail springs permaculture farm, orella ranch, and
other local and national partners
www.CarbonEconomySB.com
Soil Food Web and Compost Technologies with Dr. Elaine Ingham
*This course is back on the schedule by popular demand! If you want
the opportunity to learn with Dr. Ingham in Santa Barbara this fall,
sign up for Soil Food Web now.
We need 12 registered students by October 2 for the course to run.
Restoring the Soil Food Web is essential to rebuilding soil health
and productivity. Join
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=291542763&u=3222822>Dr.
Elaine Ingham, President and Director of Research at
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=291542763&u=3222823>Soil
Foodweb Inc., one of the world's leading soil to learn key soil
health technologies and practices.
Soil Food Web, Compost Technologies and Compost Tea Technologies
In this course, you'll look at the elements of a healthy soil food
web, learn how to analyze and improve your own soil, and learn how to
make composts and extracts to strengthen the soil food web. The Soil
Food Web course provides knowledge and research findings for those at
the grass roots level of working with soils. That includes not just
farmers who grow crops, but also those who graze cattle, sheep and
other livestock, fruit and vegetable growers, greens keepers, parks
and gardens workers, nursery operators - in fact anyone who grows
things. The course offers a way of improving the soils we work with
now and a way to keep soils in this healthier state without damaging
any other eco-system.
Residential Course Fees include onsite tent camping accommodations
and delicious catered meals at
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=291542763&u=3222824>Orella
Ranch, Gaviota, CA
$550 Early Bird, payment in full due by October 2, 2009 - requires at
least 12 registered by this date for course to run!
$650 Registration, payment in full due by October 19, 2009
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=291542763&u=3222825>Register
now!
Sustainable Land Management with Darren Doherty and Kirk Gadzia
November 10-15, 2009 Two Part Training at
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=291542763&u=3222826>Orella
Ranch, Gaviota, CA
Sustainable grazing and agricultural land management practices
emphasizing soil building, water conservation, and long range
planning for productivity and health. Benefits include: Improving
soil health and biodiversity of rangelands and pastures. Increasing
grazing and wildlife capacity. Increasing annual profits and
enhancing livelihoods. Optimally using rainfall and conserving water.
Growing healthier crops and achieving higher yields. Reversing
desertification in brittle environments. Breaking the cycle of food
and water insecurity. Enhancing family relationships.
Holistic Resource Management was pioneered by Allan Savory more than
40 years ago to offer land stewards a way to make grazing, land
management and financial decisions that positively impact land health
and productivity. Whether land is used for ranching, organics
production, food production in pastoral communities or public lands
preservation, or even if it is unused, it can be returned to health
and/or its productivity greatly increased without large infusions of
cash, equipment or technology. Farms using this kind of permaculture
design have deepened the topsoil by 3" - 6" in three years. In this
part of the course, you'll learn holistic resource management goal
setting, holistic decision making, and introductions to grazing
planning, financial planning and land management planning.
Part 2: Broadacre Permaculture and Keyline Design - November 13-15, 2009
with
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=291542763&u=3222830>Darren
Doherty, permaculturist with extensive experience across the world in
Permaculture project design, development & management with a
career-long focus on the profitable retrofit of broadacre
agricultural systems.
Broadacre Permaculture and Keyline Design utilize earth dams and
ponds, contour strip forests, and a special cultivation technique
using the Keyline plow, to infiltrate water into the soil efficiently
and hold it on the land as long as possible. This part of the course
will address keyline design applications, agricultural machinery,
site analysis and survey techniques, methods of design and GIS
applications, client communications, agroforestry, and carbon farming
techniques.
Residential Course Fees (include tuition, onsite camping, and organic
catered meals)
See website for Commuter Format options with reduced fees!
FULL Course: Sustainable Land Management (Nov 10-15)
$875 Early Bird, payment in full due by October 6, 2009
$975 Tuition, payment in full due by October 27, 2009
PART 1 or 2 Only: Holistic Management (Nov 10-12) OR Broadacre
Permaculture/Keyline Design
(Nov 13-15)
$450 Early Bird, payment in full due by October 6, 2009
$515 Tuition, payment in full due by October 27, 2009
[permaculture] Carbon Economy Series Santa Barbara Upcoming Events/Soil Food Web/Sustainable Land Management/Keyline,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 09/21/2009