Soils for Life ! 

Organic farming  for 30 years on marginal land, and as evidence mounts that this is the only way to feed the world, Bee Winfield  and Stewart Seesink have turned 2 properties into showcases of what biology can do for growers. Merri Bee Farmacy has been producing tons of nutrient dense food for 3 decades but in  2008, brutal climate change made growing anything hard.....until they learnt about soil biology in 2013. Bee and Stew are a wealth of information on soil and how to promote the biology that builds it.

Bee Winfield from Merri Bee Organic Farm

<DIV><SPAN>Catastrophic climate change looms and we desperately need more plants on our globe, right? But districts are desertifying. Simultaneously, a  health crisis is sapping our energy and destroying way too many lives , never to mention  bankrupting the richest nations.  For these reasons, many of us are now literally gardening for our lives. Can you afford not to ? </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN> Food is the best medicine, but gardening / agronomic misinformation abounds! During this course  we will bust these myths and  show you  how to grow nutrient dense food. Not Monsanto's way, but  Nature's way. </SPAN>It is simple and it is all about  soil.  LIVING SOIL  holds 10 times its own weight in water, no longer needs to grow weeds, produces abundant  disease- free plants  and ( as a huge bonus)  just happens to cool the planet whenever the sun is shining!</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN> By  teaming  with microbes and respecting   the billion year old partnership of animals, plants and fungi , your gardening will enter a new phase of abundance.  A jam packed 2 days will leave you clear and confident in your food growing ability, our organic  farm will inspire you, and  a 75 page manual is yours on sign up,  to study in advance if you so desire.  So come on, join the growing number of new biological farmers emanating from this course.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN> The smallest things on Earth could in fact be the most powerful, and this may be the best time and money you ever spent.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>TOPICS COVERED </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>what good soil does for us</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN> View results of compost and compost tea  trials on the farm</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>The myth of safe pesticides </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>The myth that we need mineral fertilizers ( eg lime and rock dust). We do not, even in WA!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>Photosynthesis ....turns sunlight into steak, celery and salsify</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>The water cycle ....do weeds waste soil moisture? Do trees make rain? </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>Assessing your soil with 4 simple home made tools .....the infiltrmeter, the penetrometer, the Bernaise funnel and a quadrant </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>The Soil Food Web.....meet some critters and find out how we can not live without them</DIV>
<DIV>Succession.....How Mother nature builds soil . Why you dont have to put up with Kikuyu grass </DIV>
<DIV>Allan Savory and planned grazing ..... essential knowledge even in your back yard.</DIV>
<DIV>Soil Health principles....The 5 keys to ever building fertility and carbon sequestration </DIV>
<DIV> You too can be a Super star grower...... cooling the climate,embracing weeds & multi- species covers, pasture cropping, etc</DIV>
<DIV>Worm farming . Production of Black Gold</DIV>
<DIV>Microscope work </DIV>
<DIV>Practical composting for breeding beneficial organisms at home</DIV>
<DIV>4 vital reasons to keep it sweet and aerobic</DIV>
<DIV>Diversity, diversity, diversity....Brainstorm of ingredients </DIV>
<DIV>Compost tea know how. ....spreading the love over broad scale biological farms</DIV>
<DIV>Swale walk and final question and answers</DIV>
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<DIV>PARTING GIFTS</DIV>
<DIV>Each participant will leave with a 75 page illustrated manual, a compost thermometer, a comfrey  plant in</DIV>
<DIV>inoculum ( compost) and a packet of seeds for multi species cover cropping.</DIV>
<DIV>Our invitation to keep in touch, Plus our promise to answer your composting questions for life! </DIV>
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