[compost_tea] couldn't find corvalis due to sp errorWas: Microscope training course...
---Looks like a great road trip. Went thru there around 1972 on the
way to Troy, MT from Longapo Beach,CA.It's 26 hours to Portland.
Corvallis will be closer.Are there any concerts or other happenings
in conjunction with the training? Maybe an organic farm tour?....
In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "dkemnitz2000" <dkemnitz2000@y...>
wrote:
> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> > Hi Thomas -
> >
> > Grin! You need to buy your own lunch.
> >
> > The course will be at the Corvallis lab in Oregon.
> >
> > The course is a half day intensive instruction in how to use the
> microscope, how to focus the condenser light on hte sample, how to
do
> the shadowing method needed to increase contrast, and how to
> recognize all the "stuff" in the tea samples. Well, we'll start
that
> process. I don't know all the stuff in compost or tea, after 30
> years of staring at soil, compost and tea.
> >
> > More grins!
> >
>
>
>
> I'm grinning;sort of smiling! How many hours is this course? Have
> you decided which day, 28th or 4th?
> Anybody driving thru Kansas to attend? If so let me know.
I'll
> drive some and cover some of the gas. Probably 32 hours of driving
> from here. Guess I'll get the map to Corvalis! Dennis
>
>
> > The course starts at 8 am on Friday May 28, or Friday June 4. If
> there is more demand, we'll add more courses.
> >
> > You have to sign up in advance for the course.
> >
> > We limit class size. You want one-on-one interaction. That's
the
> way to do this.
> >
> > So, afer training you how to do the methods, then we look at good
> tea, bad tea, ok tea, WOW tea, tea you bring, so you learn what the
> critters look like.
> >
> > Bring your digital cameras too. Make sure they are 3 X optical
> zoom.
> >
> > The afternoon will be practice time - whatever you want to look
at,
> and ask questions about. We end at 5 pm, but you could leave
anytime
> you feel you have picked up the method.
> >
> > There will be a manual, with a standard curve in it, to show you
> what bad, good and great tea is.
> >
> > Prerequisite is a sincere interest in quality compost tea and how
> to make quality compost tea.
> >
> > We'll probably give some demo on how to look at your compost as
> well. Again, you can't get all the info you need, but it can give
> you some great hints about if you are going the right way. You
will
> need to confirm with the full testing with SFI, but you will be
able
> to see, instantly, how you will be using this to monitor tea
quality,
> and perhaps compost quality. EACH BATCH.
> >
> > Soil is not something that you can do with this microscope - you
> have to have the $25,000 scope to work with soil.
> >
> > Activities, protozoa, nematodes, and mycorrhizal colonization
still
> needs to be done with the lab. And confirm what you are seeing
with
> the lab too. The ability to take pictures is necessary too.
> >
> > Elaine Ingham
> > President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> > SFI Corvallis, OR
> > SFI Port Jefferson, NY
> > SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
> > SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
> > SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
> > SFI Culiacan, Mexico
> > SFI Jerome, Idaho
> > http://www.soilfoodweb.com
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