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How
to Register Topics/Schedule Locations Required
Reading Food and Lodging
Workshop
Topics and Schedule
- Download Detailed Workshop Information and Topics List
- Download Detailed Schedule
The Workshop Manual of lecture notes and key articles will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.
THURSDAY
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TOPICS |
| Introductions |
Sustainability
The closed-system concept
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World
Situation
Topsoil
destruction; species loss
Food production, diet choices, and their consequences
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Philosophy
Growing crops, soil, people; individual responsibility
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History
Chinese,
Greek and South American traditional agriculture, French market
gardeners, Bio-Dynamics, Alan Chadwick Sustainable systems
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Bed Preparation
Soil, air, water, organic matter, nutrients, structure
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Double-Digging
Principles, tools, techniques; surface cultivation
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Seed
Propagation
Transplanting
vs. direct sowing
Seedlings
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Diet
Calories
Sustainable diet and 60/30/10 design
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Simultaneous Sessions
Income OR Crops and Seeds
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FRIDAY
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Compost:
Principles and techniques
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Compost
Crops
Carbon
plus calories
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Fertility
and Fertilization
Living
soil; feed the soil, not the plants
Organic fertilizers, manure, compost
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40-Bed, 21-Bed, and One-Bed Units |
Demonstrations
Double-digging, fertilizing, pricking out, transplanting
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SATURDAY
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Simultaneous Sessions
1. Water Use and Farming Techniques for Low-Rainfall Regions OR Crop Rotations
2. Human Waste and Fertility OR Companion Planting
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Planning
Making the Best Use of the Master Charts
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Group Activity
Planning Your Own One-Bed Unit
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Concluding
Perspective
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DAILY SCHEDULE
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Thursday |
8:00 -12:30 |
Lecture |
12:30-1:45 |
Lunch |
1:45-5:30 |
Lecture |
Friday |
8:00 -12:30 |
Lecture |
12:30-1:30 |
Lunch |
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Demos |
6:30 |
Networking Supper |
Saturday |
8:00 -12:30 |
Lecture |
12:30-1:45 |
Lunch |
1:45-5:30 |
Group Activity |
| Note:
The schedule is subject to change, depending on the weather.
This will be a non-smoking classroom. |
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The Workshop assumes pre-reading of How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine and/or The Sustainable Vegetable Garden—A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields. The Workshop will be most useful to Participants if both have been read, preferably two weeks before the event.
John Jeavons
5798 Ridgewood
Road • Willits, CA 95490
phone 707.459.5958
• fax 707.459.5978
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