Last minute reminder for workshop this weekend - Please forward as you see fit - Thanks!
Those of you who aren't farmers but are interested in soil, healthy food and agriculture - this workshop will give you a new way to look at rocks, our landscape and your garden.
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ON-FARM PRACTICAL SOIL EVALUATION AND LOCAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE KINGSTON REGION - Sunday, July 15th: 12:30 - 4pm

This workshop will begin in the field with a short presentation on soil fertility in the Kingston Region by John Slack, agro-geologist and farmer. John will demonstrate how you can practically evaluate soils in three different soil types.  He will also discuss how to access and apply locally available soil amendments. You will gain an understanding of how farming, geological and biological processes have led to the creation of the soils being farmed today and how to manage them for the future.

This workshop is relevant to all types of farmers conventional to organic, cash cropping to market gardening - everyone welcome.

Let us know you’re coming: Fill out this short form or call: 613 344 1698    or if you’re not sure - feel free to just show up.

Fee: $10
Date: Sunday, July 15th 2012
Time: 12:30 Gather - Workshop runs: 1pm to 4pm
Workshop will run rain or shine
Where:
Kitchen Garden Farm
705 Simmons Road, Odessa
https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=705+wilton+road&ie=UTF-8&ei=Uq3sT9Dq...

This farm has a diversity of soils from sandy to clay loam to thick clay providing an excellent opportunity to discuss and examine all three types. This diversity is due to a unique glacial formation that the farm is located on.

About John Slack:
As a agri-mineral prospector, John has traveled from the desert to the arctic looking at soils to determine locations of mineral deposits for industrial and agricultural use.  As a farmer of many years near Orangeville, North West of Toronto, he has recently added a sheep dairy to his sheep operation.  Combining his two passions, John provides a unique, straightforward and in-depth critical look at evaluating and managing soils.

This workshop has been organized by Harris Ivens
[email protected]
613 344 1698