Carbon Economy Series Santa Barbara upcoming events

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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.

OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Training at Orella Ranch, Gaviota Coast, north of Santa Barbara, CA

Restoring the Soil Food Web is essential to rebuilding soil health and productivity.

Join Dr.Elaine Ingham, President and Director of Research at 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 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

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SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT WITH DARREN DOHERTY AND KIRK GADZIA

Broadacre Permaculture/Keyline Design, and Holistic Resource Management

Two Part Training at Orella Ranch, Gaviota, CA.

NOVEMBER 10-15, 2009

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.

Part 1: Holistic Resource Management - November 10-12, 2009

with Kirk Gadzia, a certified instructor with the Holistic Management International Center and

founder of Resource Management Services

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 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

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