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Sustainable Greenhouse Design & Year Round Food Production Workshop: MARCH 22-23, 2002

Learn how to design, build and grow in a passive solar greenhouse-the mistakes and triumphs of years of growing experience condensed into a two-day course.

FRIDAY: HOW TO BUILD 8:00-8:45 Introduction, tour of greenhouse, sustainable food systems design 8:45-10:00 Design, size, shape, orientation, energy flows, use of suncharts 10:00-10:15 BREAK (provided) 10:15-11:30 Site preparations, squaring up and laying out greenhouse, (using batter boards) elevations (use of transit, string levels and hose levels) and actual construction tips for ground pins, bows (steel), and base boards 11:30-12:00 Individual or group practice site evaluations, and group discussion about choices. 12:00-1:30 LUNCH (Organic vegetarian provided) 1:30-2:30 Gable end discussion and framing hints, door construction, possible coverings 2:30-3:00 Plastic glazing and how to put it on. (three different methods) 3:00-3:30 Tunnel construction (and the next generation) 3:30-3:45 BREAK (Provided) 3:45-5:30 Hotbeds for transplant production how to build several types and grow within. SUPPER ON YOUR OWN

SATURDAY: HOW TO GROW 8:00-8:45 Interior layout and bed design, use of pathways, overhead growing, Biointensive Growing 8:45-10:00 Soil structure, fertility, growing soil, double digging (hands on DEMO) 10:00-10:15 BREAK (Provided) 10:15-12:00 Plant spacing, sequencing, pricking out and transplant (hands on demo) 12:00-1:30 LUNCH (Organic vegetarian provided) 1:30- 4:00 Insect and disease control, scouting procedures, slide show of insect cycles, developing insectaries, introducing beneficials (hands on work in greenhouse) 4:00-4:15 BREAK (provided) 4:15-5:00 Awareness of and how to avoid nitrate uptake in low light greens production 5:00-5:20 Income potential, CSA, lettuce farm model and specialty crops 5:20-5:30 Designing for a sustainable future and closure (schedule may be modified by instructor and/or participants) Location: Spring Grove, PA

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), March 10, 2002

Answers

you mentioned time and date but ....

WHERE is it?

-- Novina in ND (homespun@stellarnet.com), March 11, 2002.

Last sentence saysa "Location: Spring Grove, PA."

-- Anne (HealthyTouch101@wildmail.com), March 11, 2002.

Novina-

Go to the website which is listed at the top of the notice. You can get all the info including contact numbers, as well as info about other upcoming events.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), March 11, 2002.