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Better Soil Ecology for Better Farming, with special guest Dr. Elaine Ingham

6 Mar 2015

Date: March 6, 2014, 1:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Living Web Farm, Mills River, NC
COST: with Spring Conference Registration: $35, without Spring Conference Registration: $50

Spend the afternoon with world-renowned soil biologist Elaine Ingham who will address salient, real-life examples of soil dynamism and instructions on how to fine tune soil nutrients for specific crops. Ingham will speak and tour Living Web Farms’ forced-air compost bins and compost tea operations in addition to the intensively cropped, no-till vegetable operation. Participants will hear stories about farmers who are suppressing weeds with proper soil biology as well as those using compost tea and microbe-rich methods to increase yields and suppress diseases.

For more information and to register, please visit the website: http://organicgrowersschool.org/annual-spring-conference/pre-conference-workshops/

For questions, please contact Vaidila Satvika: vaidila@organicgrowersschool.org or 828-761-1776