[BCFSN] UBC Farm Workshops & Ecological Farming Short Course (Corrected Hyperlinks)

[Seth Friedman]

The UBC Farm Workshop series is proud to announce our diverse lineup of
fall workshops http://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/workshops/   35-50 workshops per year
are offered at the UBC Farm, ranging from 1.5-3 hours to full-length short
courses.  Topics range from *food production* (gardening/farming, foraging,
mushroom cultivation, aquaponics), *food transformation * (cooking,
preserving, canning, cheese & beer making, baking), and other *sustainable
living skills* (making fiber, craft-making, health & well-being).  Student
*discounts* are available.  For our short courses, you may sign up for
individual workshops, or the entire short course for a *15% discount.*

Advanced registration is required, and *please register early*, as our
workshops sometimes sell out, and *registration is subject to closure up to
five days before a workshop*.  To stay informed of upcoming workshops and
other events at the UBC Farm, sign up for our farm e-newsletter here:
http://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/get-involved/get-involved-2/ubc-farm-newsletter/.

Our next series is our
Ecological Farming Short Course: Sep 29-30

Helen Atthowe & Carl Rosato, farmers with a combined 55+ years of  farming
experience, are coming from Oregon to offer three special workshops in
ecological farming.  To register for any or all of these workshops, please
click on our workshops link above:


   - Friday, Sept 29th, 5:30-7 pm, Carl will be teaching, "*Orchard
   Eco-Organic Management. Woodleaf Farm's No-spray, No-weed, No-till System
   of Disease, Insect, and Soil Management"*
   - This workshop will present 35 years of practice and on-farm research
      data from Woodleaf Farm's successful, certified-organic peach,
pear, apple,
      cherry, plum, pluot orchard, including soil mineral balancing techniques,
      Woodleaf's mineral-mix sprays to manage disease, and habitat-building to
      manage insect pests. Woodleaf is known for the best tasting peaches and
      no-till, no weed, and no pest spray orchard management.
      - Saturday, Sept 30th, 11:30-1:30 pm: Helen and Carl will collaborate
   to teach *"Managing Ecological Relationships Instead of Crops:
   Strategies to Blend Food Production and Wild Places*."
   - No-weeding, No spraying for pests, No fertilizing. How to design farms
      that sponsor their own fertility and pest management with minimal or no
      off-farm inputs. Examples of strategies to mimic nature with soil and
      habitat building from two long term, "eco-organic" farms, Biodesign Farm
      (Montana) and Woodleaf Farm (California).
      - Saturday, Sept 30th, 2-4 pm: Helen will teach "*Feeding the Soil:
   The Science and Practice of Soil Organic Matter Systems Management.*"
   - Organic farming philosophy stresses reliance on natural nutrient
      cycling and feeding the soil food web. But most organic farmers still
      import off-farm organic fertilizers with the goal of feeding
specific crops
      rather than building a soil organic matter system. Can farmers use new
      science about soil organic matter and the soil food web to help them grow
      their own fertilizer and maintain soil fertility with few
off-farm inputs?
      This workshop will present soil organic matter system building
science and
      practice and spend the last 30 minutes in the vegetable
production area of
      the UBC farm investigating how the soil organic matter system is managed
      there.

   For 35 years, Carl was owner of Woodleaf Farm, a certified organic fruit
   farm in California. In 2012, Carl was recognized with a Steward of
   Sustainable Agriculture Award, at the 32nd Annual EcoFarm Conference.
   Helen farmed organic-certified vegetables and tree fruit at her own
   Biodesign Farm (Montana, 1993-2010), Woodleaf Farm (California, 2012-2015),
   and presently co-owns with her husband Carl a new farm in Oregon.  Helen
   studied natural farming with Masanobu Fukuoka in Japan and at The Land
   Institute in Kansas. Her on-farm research focuses on reduced tillage, soil
   and beneficial insect habitat building, and high carbon soil management
   systems
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