Workshop Finished. A Great Success! Our next scheduled Compost Tea workshop with Paul Taylor is ‘BioFertile Farms’ (Sept. 13th-15th 2010). Bookings for this workshop are conducted through the RegenAG website (www.RegenAG.com/biofert). Don’t miss it! To see photos of this workshop, click here Join us at Taranaki Farm in Central Victoria as we invite Paul Taylor along to stage his practical workshop; Compost & Compost Tea. You’ll learn how to regenerate, hydrate, enhance and heal your soils through both an understanding of the “Soil Food Web” and the techniques needed to make biologically active Aerated Compost Tea. This very popular hands-on workshop has created an army of graduates who are enhancing farms across Australia. The workshop focuses on practical techniques of applying compost and compost teas for small, medium and larger-scale farming, grazing and forestry operations. This workshop is focused on taking the mystery out of the complex science of the soil microbiology while providing common-sense solutions to improving soils and reducing input costs.

Farm Ready Course # : FRTC0670 [ quote this number for FarmReady pre-approval ]

Workshop Details

Title:	Compost & Compost Tea Workshop
Venue:	Taranaki Farm
Where:	North Central Victoria [ 65km from Melbourne along Calder Hwy See map details further down this page ]
When:	13th – 15th MAY 2010 : 3 Days

FarmReady Approved

If you are a farmer, land manager, primary producer or in the immediate family of any of these, you may be eligible for reimbursement under FarmReady. Go to our FarmReady page to learn more…

Description

A practical workshop on how to hydrate, enhance and heal your soils by understanding the soil food web and how to make biologically active Aerated Compost Tea. This very popular hands-on course is re-defining the role of Compost Tea for many farms across Australia. This workshop focuses on practical techniques of applying compost and compost teas for small, medium and larger-scale farming, grazing and forestry operations.This course includes hands-on compost making, Compost Tea brewing demonstrations.

One tonne of healthy topsoil will typically harbor as much as 25% of its weight in living microorganisms. Living soil life is essential for healthy soils. Adding more microbiology (of the right kind) to your soil strengthens its structure, makes nutrients available to the plants above, builds humus and leads to resilient, productive soils, naturally.

What is Compost Tea?

Good compost contains thousands of bacterial and fungal species. When a small amount of specially made compost is added to highly aerated water, held at a desired temperature and supplied with the correct nutrients for the microbiology in the compost to feed on, you can make a highly cultured ‘brew’. This ‘brew’, brimming with the microbiology needed for healthy soil, can then be distributed over farms, fields, plantations or gardens – adding crucial microbiology to the soil.

Who does Compost Tea help build soil?

In nature, different soils contain different microbiological ecosystems. Soil in a forest is very different to soil in a grassland. Compost Tea can be used to influence, affect and add to the biological makeup of your soils’ ecosystems. Hence your soils can be primed for whatever you wish to grow, whether that be crops, forestry, regeneration or pastures.

How does it work?

A healthy soil food web occurs when all the organisms the plant requires are present and functioning within the soil system. Microbiology is responsible for making non-plant available nutrients in the soil plant available. It is one of the functions of a healthy food web is to hold nutrients in non-leachable forms so they remain in soil.

Soil pH, soil structure, and nutrient cycling occur at the correct rates and produce the right forms of nutrients for the plant when the correct ratio of fungi to bacteria is present. Good compost contains thousands of bacterial and fungal species.

When a small amount of specially made compost is added to highly aerated water, held at a desired temperature and supplied with the correct nutrients for the microbiology in the compost to feed on, you can make a highly cultured ‘brew’. This ‘brew’, brimming with the microbiology needed for healthy soil, can then be distributed over farms, fields, plantations or gardens – adding crucial microbiology to the soil.

What are some on-farm examples of Compost Tea in use?

A few of the many examples of how Aerated Compost Tea is being used throughout the world to remediate soils:

What does this workshop cover?

This practical, three day workshop covers how to make your own Compost Tea, plus how to make your own compost on a small and medium scale, in a way that makes sure your compost is chock-full of whatever microbes are appropriate for your specific needs – i.e. pasture vs orchard, or pasture cropping system vs nut grove.

• Making Inoculum compost
• The principles of compost tea
• Compost tea brewers
• Creating beneficial soil biology
• Nutrient Retention
• Building Soil Structure
• Disease Suppression
• Bio-remediation
• Weed suppression
• Keyline with Compost Tea Injection
• and much more…

Booking Your Place

Workshop Finished. A Great Success.

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Once you’ve booked

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