Jan 31st - Feb 4th The Soil Food Web /Intensive Course wit

31st+1st: The Soil Food Web Approach
2nd: Compost Intensive
3rd: Compost Tea Intensive
4th: Microscopes: Identifying Soil Microlife
Sign up for individual days or the whole course.
Organic meals included. Optional Camping.

In this course you will learn to:
    *       Understand Soil Microlife
      *       Increase production through top soil health
     *       Revolutionize your management of soil
*       Enlist fungi to mine rocks for Phosphorus (for real)
    *       Eliminate the need for nitrogen fertilizers
     *       Brew and analyze Compost Tea
    *       Make biologically powerful compost
Dr. Elaine Ingham has revolutionized how the science and farming communities understand the life of soil. Elaine's soil food web approach teaches how to cultivate a soil that is teeming with the right balance of beneficial micro organisms. Through decades of intensive research, Elaine has evolved age-old compost and compost tea strategies to help thousands of farms, golf courses, ranches, and landscapes to reach incredible productivity without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Dr. Elaine Ingham is an energetic, easy-to-understand speaker who has addressed audiences as diverse as the United Nations and Potato Grower Conferences, to explain what life in the soil is all about.

The MA Center is the US headquarters for the international humanitarian and spiritual activities of an India saint, Mata Amritanandamayi (known as Amma). The 180-acre grounds serve as an educational hub for the Bay Area through demonstration of exemplary sustainable design and practices.   Drawn by the site's beauty, accessiblity by public transportation, and the center's uncompromising dedication to using all proceeds to fund international humanitarian aid projects, hundreds of volunteers have joined together in service to plant the orchards and reforest the hillsides. The MA Center will be using a Soil Food Web approach for the orchards and landscape.

Read on to learn about: Course Costs, Camping and Breakfest options, Light Microscope Specs, and Travel

Course Costs:
Common Vision, GreenFriends, and Biologic Systems worked hard to make this course the most affordable of Dr. Elaine Ingham's standard courses. May this information help thousands!
$265 ~ Intro to the Soil Foodweb (Jan 31 - Feb1))
$140 ~ Compost Technology (Feb 2)      Strongly recommended to attend Intro class
$140 ~ Compost Tea Technology (Feb 3)      Strongly recommended to attend Compost class
$160 ~ Light Microscope Class (Feb 4)     Each attendee should bring a microscope meeting the specifications listed on the registration form.

Accommodations:

Hotel:
Room costs in San Ramon or Castro Valley range form $40/night to $120/night. You will receive a list of local hotels and online hotel
booking options to assist your room search. Participants are responsible for booking their own hotel rooms and coordinating their own
transportation to and from the M.A. Center.

Light Microscopes:
BioLogic systems distributes Labomed CX-L microscopes that are the equivalent of the discontinued leica cm-e. These scopes will be available at the seminar but must be purchased by the 5pm on day 3 of seminar so we can pick up prior to scope day. They will be special discount price of $520 and we will donate $20 each sale to Common Vision.

If you would like to order a microscope for delivery at course contact info[at]biologicsystemsUSA.com
Travel:
Course will be held at M.A. Center, 10200 Crow Canyon Rd, Castro Valley, CA 94552.

BART INFO:
The M.A. Center will be coordinating pick-ups At 8:30 AM and drop-offs daily at 7:00 pm - at the Castro Valley BART station.

RIDE SHARE INFO:
To minimize carbon footprint and travel parts, be part of a contact list of people looking to share rides. Disclaimer: This service is purely to assist course participants in connecting with other participants to share rides. The M.A. Center and Common Vision are not responsible for your travel experience. Let us know you are interested and we will send you a link to this list.