The events in this list are now complete.

Date	Event/Location
January 22, 2009	Evening Presentation, Ashland, OR
January 23-25 2009	Sustainable Mini-Farming 3-Day Workshop, Ashland, OR
January 27, 2009	1-Day Economic Mini-Farming Workshop, Ashland, OR
September 15, 2009	GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Mini Farming Morning Presentation Observatory, Johannesburg S.A.
September 16-20, 2009	GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini Farming 5-Day Workshop Near Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng, South Africa Ezemvelo Nature Reserve This workshop was given in conjunction with the Maharishi Institute and the Eco Campus for Africa. Read about Ezemvelo: http://www.ezemvelo.co.za Ezemvelo Blogspot
October 21, 2009	GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Mini Farming Evening Presentation Fairfield, Iowa Maharishi University of Management, Dalby Hall, Argiro Student Center, 8:00 PM
October 21, 2009	HIGH TUNNEL WORKSHOP Learn about sustainable passive solar greenhouse design and operation Fairfield, Iowa The workshop was Presented by Steve Moore For more details about the course or to learn about Steve Moore and the workshop see www.harmony-essentials.com or contact harmonyessentials@gmail.com
October 22-24, 2009	GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini Farming 3-Day Workshop Fairfield, Iowa 8 AM- 5PM, Abundance Eco-Village CSA Farm

 

 

 

 

GROW BIOINTENSIVE^®
Sustainable Mini-Farming
Evening Presentation

Palo Alto, CA
7 PM, Palo Alto Arts Center
Friday, March 12, 2010

1313 Newell Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303

The event is hosted by the Palo Alto City Library. Tel.: 650-617-3100

Description: Does your desire for better nutrition have you wondering if you could live off your land? This talk will introduce you to how to plan a garden or mini-farm that will produce healthy, nutritious food and be highly productive, as well as truly sustainable, in the smallest space possible.

 

GROW BIOINTENSIVE^®
Sustainable Mini-Farming
Evening Presentation

Olympia, WA
Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 1
Friday, September 25, 2010, 7-9PM

Directions:

 

The Program

The program will consist of lecture, discussion and demonstration sessions, and will include a full range of information on Sustainability and Efficient Resource Use, Crops and Diet, Fertilization, Compost and Compost Crops, Soil Preparation and Seed Propagation, as well as the perspective to tie all these together.

Demonstrations

A portion of the afternoon will be devoted to practical demonstrations, during which a few participants will be able to try their hand at double-digging, pricking out and/or transplanting.

Dates, Prices & Application Deadlines

Olympia, Washington Wendell Berry Community Garden September 25, 2010

$130 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: August 25, 2010) $155 if received between August 26 and September 9, 2010 (Applications will not be accepted after September 9, 2010 because we need time to prepare materials for the workshop)

Schedule

Just as GROW BIOINTENSIVE^® mini-farming functions as a whole system (rather than isolated techniques), this workshop constitutes a whole, with each section building on previous sections; it is therefore important to attend the entire workshop. Transportation should be scheduled so that participants can remain through 5:30 PM on Saturday.

Required Reading / Ordering Publications

In order to ensure that you leave the workshop with the fullest range and depth of information possible, we will assume that all participants have read the publications listed under Required Reading. If you do not already own the required publications, you can purchase a full or partial set by ordering them from the Bountiful Gardens website.

The Workshop Mini-Manual of lecture notes and key articles (cost: $15.00, paid for when you register) will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.

Cost

The cost of the One-Day Workshop per person is $130 (plus $15.00 for the Workshop Mini-Manual, plus publications, if you do not already own them), if payment is received by August 25, 2010; $155 if payment is received between August 26 and September 9, 2010. Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

Scholarships

Participants interested in scholarships are encouraged to contact garden clubs, youth groups, churches, Rotary or Kiwanis clubs, etc., for sponsorship. There are also a limited number of partial scholarships for tuition available through this workshop directly. Please telephone us for details at the number listed below.

Application

Pre-registration and payment should be completed by August 25, 2010 for the Olympia, Washington One Day Workshop. However, participants are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as these workshops can fill well in advance (because of space restrictions, enrollment is limited to 50 participants for this workshop). Registration should be completed online (see Registration and Fees, below), and will include a brief history of the applicant, a description of how he/she intends to use the information learned, and a paragraph or more on how he/she intends to be living and using the techniques 10 years from now.

In case of oversubscription, the staff will select later applicants on the basis of the impact their work is likely to have in the future; priority will be given to those with a goal of using GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming practices in outreach and public service projects. Workshop fees will be returned to those not selected.

Cancellation Policy

1) If a person cancels his/her workshop registration at least two weeks prior to the first day of the workshop, $100 of the workshop fee ($130 minus $30 processing fee) will be refunded or applied to another John Jeavons workshop during the year that follows.

2) Cancellations that occur less than two weeks before the start of a workshop will result in the loss of the registration fee, or $75 of the fee may be applied to another equivalent workshop during the following year.

Additional Information

• Your understanding of the workshop will be enhanced if you already know the following information about your area, which your County Agricultural Agent should be able to help you find: elevation, first and last frost dates (if applicable), rainfall by month, monthly high and low temperatures. (You can find forms for this information in EA Booklet #26, available from Bountiful Gardens.) You are welcome to bring along photos of the project you are involved in, if you wish.
  
  
• For information about similar workshops, see Ecology Action Workshops
  
  
• We hope you'll join us! Tape recorders or video cameras are not permitted at the workshop. Please bring your own mug for hot beverages. Also, please bring along a calculator, pencil, sturdy shoes or boots with good tread and gloves. As the weather could be cold, wet and/or sunny, it is recommended that you dress in layers. Consider bringing your own water bottle.
  
  
• Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

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This GROW BIOINTENSIVE^® Sustainable Mini-Farming One-Day Workshop will be in:

Olympia, Washington
8:30 AM- 5:30 PM, Wendell Berry Community Garden 
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Pre-registration is required for this workshop

Download PDF of the poster>>

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To download the complete three-day information packet, which includes the detailed schedule and topics list as well as other information, click here.

 

TIME	TOPIC
8:30 - 9:00	Introductions
9:00 - 9:30	Perspective for Food-Raising For the Future Now:  Power Point Presentation
9:30 - 10:00	The History of GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming and Its 8 Elements including the 60/30/10 Planning Model
10:00 - 10:30	Soil Preparation
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Compost
11:30 - 12:00	Seed Propagation and Companion Planting
12:00 - 12:30	Carbon and Calorie Crops
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:00	Special Calorie Crops and Vitamin and Mineral Crops plus Income Crops
2:00 - 2:15	Open-Pollinated Seeds and the Whole System
2:15 - 3:00	One Bed Unit Design, Intuitive Designing from the Heart and Questions and Answers
3:00 - 3:20	Travel to Demonstration Site
3:20-4:20	Double-Digging Demonstration
4:20-5:20	Fertilization, Transplanting and Prick-Out Demonstration
5:20-5:30	Closing

 

DAILY SCHEDULE
Saturday	8:30 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:30	Lunch
	1:30-5:30	Lecture/Demo
Note: The schedule is subject to change, depending on the weather. This will be a non-smoking classroom.

The Workshop assumes pre-reading of How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine and/or The Sustainable Vegetable Garden—A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields.  The Workshop will be most useful to Participants if both have been read, preferably two weeks before the event.  

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Required Readings for the Workshop

The list below contains required reading for the 3-Day workshops, which you should do before you come to the Workshop, as well as other materials that you should bring with you.

You can order the full or partial set of these publications by visiting Bountiful Gardens.

In addition to the reading below, there is a Workshop Mini- Manual of lecture notes
and key articles (cost: $15.00, paid for when you register),
which will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.

Required Reading (Read before the workshop, and bring with you) How to Grow More Vegetables, 7th ed., 2006 The Sustainable Vegetable Garden EA Booklet #14: The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm EA Booklet #26: Learning How To Grow All Your Own Food
Recommended Reading One Circle (especially pp. i-vi, 1-72, 125-128) EA Booklet #32: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Composting and Growing Compost Materials
Optional Reading General Perspective:  The Backyard Homestead, Mini-Farm and Garden Log Book  (Chapter 2) Diet / Compost / Income: EA Booklet #15: One Basic Mexican Diet EA Booklet #25: One Basic Kenyan Diet Compost Materials / Carbon: Booklet #12: Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer Research Perspective: EA Booklet #1: Cucumber Bonanza Saving Seeds: Booklet #13: Growing to Seed (rev. ed. 1999) Saving Seeds, Marc Rogers (Storey, 1990) Flowers: EA Booklet #18: Cut, Dried and Edible Flowers for Income, Pleasure and Taste Transforming Human Waste: Future Fertility Fertility: EA Booklet #29: Test Your Soil with Plants! Questions To Ask When Beginning To Farm: EA Booklet: Another Way to Wealth Teacher Training: EA Booklet #30: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming\Teacher-Training and Certification Program

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Location/ Food / Lodging / Recreation
information and suggestions for the 1-Day Workshop

Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop.

Here are some possibilities for the
September 25, 2010 One-Day Workshop in Olympia, Washington:

Location -- Lodging -- Food --Recreation

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LOCATION

The main location that participants should be aware of:

Olympia, Washington
Wendell Berry Community Garden 
928 Wilson Street, Olympia Washington.

• Click here for driving directions from I-5 South
• Click here for driving directions from I-5 North
• Click here for driving directions from US 101South
  

The Wendell Berry Community Garden is a part of the Sustainable South Sound Urban Agriculture Program. For more information about the garden and the project, go to: http://www.oly-wa.us/SustainSouthSound/WBerry.php

Also on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-WA/Welcome-to-the-Wendell-Berry-Community-Garden/10150125702825015

 

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WHERE TO STAY:

For a list of potential lodging in Olympia, Washington, try these websites:

http://www.experiencewa.com/cities/olympia.aspx

http://visitolympia.com/stay.php

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WHERE TO EAT:

For a list of restaurants in Olympia, Washington, try one of these websites:

http://www.visitolympia.com/dining.php

http://www.helloolympia.com/Restaurants.Cfm

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ABOUT OLYMPIA:

For more information about Olympia, Washington, check the following websites:

• To view a list of things to do in Olympia from Tripadvisor.com, click here
• To view a list of Olympia Washington activities and attractions click here
• More activities: click here
  

See you in Olympia, WA!

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1-Day Workshop Registration: A Four Step Process

1. Download and read the 1-Day Workshop Information Packet.
   
   
2. Complete the Online Workshop Application/Registration Form (click the link to open our secure online registration form, hosted by FormSpring) for the Olympia, Washington 1-Day Workshop, September 25, 2010.
   
   
3. Pay for workshop fees. When you submit your workshop registration, you will automatically be redirected to our online payment page, hosted by PayPal. Make sure to complete payment or your registration will not be processed. Prices are as follows:
   
   
   • $130 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: August 25, 2010).
     
     
   • $155 if received between August 26, 2010 and September 9, 2010 (Applications will not be
     accepted after September 9, 2010)
     
     
   • $15 for the workshop mini-manual
     
     
   • Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop. For food and lodging options, click here.
     
     
4. Look over the Required Reading for the 1 day workshop, and if you need any of the books or papers, order them from Bountiful Gardens. The Workshop Mini-Manual of lecture notes and key articles will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.
   
   

The Program

The program will consist of lecture, discussion and demonstration sessions, and will include a full range of information on Sustainability and Efficient Resource Use, Arid Region Farming Principles, Crops and Diet, Fertilization, Compost and Compost Crops, Soil Preparation and Preservation, Seed Propagation, and Income, as well as the perspective to tie all these together.

Demonstrations

One afternoon will be devoted to practical demonstrations, during which a few participants will be able to try their hand at double-digging, pricking out and/or transplanting.

Dates, Prices & Application Deadlines

Asheville, NC April 8-10, 2010

$350 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: March 8, 2010) $400 if received between March 9 and April 7, 2010

Schedule

Just as GROW BIOINTENSIVE^® mini-farming functions as a whole system (rather than isolated techniques), this workshop constitutes a whole, with each section building on previous sections; it is therefore important to attend the entire workshop. Transportation should be scheduled so that participants can remain through 5 PM on Saturday.

Required Reading / Ordering Publications

In order to ensure that you leave the workshop with the fullest range and depth of information possible, we will assume that all participants have read the publications listed under Required Reading. If you do not already own the required publications, you can purchase a full or partial set by ordering them from the Bountiful Gardens website.

The Workshop Manual of lecture notes and key articles (cost: $45, paid for when you register) will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.

Cost

The cost of the Three-Day Workshop per person is $350 plus $45 for the workshop manual (plus publications, if you do not already own them), if payment is received at least one month in advance; $400 if payment is received less than one month in advance. Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $20 per person. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

Scholarships

Participants interested in scholarships are encouraged to contact garden clubs, youth groups, churches, Rotary or Kiwanis clubs, etc., for sponsorship. There are also a limited number of partial scholarships for tuition available through this workshop directly. Please telephone us for details at the number listed below.

Application

Pre-registration and payment should be completed by March 8, 2010 for the Warren Wilson College workshop. However, participants are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as these workshops can fill well in advance. Registration should be completed online (see Registration and Fees, below), and will include a brief history of the applicant, a description of how he/she intends to use the information learned, and a paragraph or more on how he/she intends to be living and using the techniques 10 years from now.

In case of oversubscription, the staff will select later applicants on the basis of the impact their work is likely to have in the future; priority will be given to those with a goal of using GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming practices in outreach and public service projects. Workshop fees will be returned to those not selected.

Cancellation Policy

1) If a person cancels his/her workshop registration at least two weeks prior to the first day of the workshop, $300 of the workshop fee ($350 minus $50 processing fee) will be refunded or applied to another John Jeavons workshop during the year that follows.

2) Cancellations that occur less than two weeks before the start of a workshop will result in the loss of the registration fee, or $300 of the fee may be applied to another equivalent workshop during the following year.

Additional Information

• Your understanding of the workshop will be enhanced if you already know the following information about your area, which your County Agricultural Agent should be able to help you find: elevation, first and last frost dates (if applicable), rainfall by month, monthly high and low temperatures. (You can find forms for this information in EA Booklet #26, available from Bountiful Gardens.) You are welcome to bring along photos of the project you are involved in, if you wish.
  
  
• For information about similar workshops, see Ecology Action Workshops
  
  
• We hope you'll join us! Tape recorders or video cameras are not permitted at the workshop. Please bring your own mug for hot beverages. Also, please bring along a calculator, pencil, sturdy shoes or boots with good tread and gloves. As the weather could be cold, wet and/or sunny, it is recommended that you dress in layers. Consider bringing your own water bottle and a mosquito repellant.
  
  
• Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $20 per person. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

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There is a GROW BIOINTENSIVE®
Sustainable Mini-Farming Three-Day Workshop scheduled for:

Asheville, NC
8 AM- 5PM, Warren Wilson College, Location TBD
Thursday - Saturday March 8-10, 2010

Pre-registration is required for this workshop

On Thursday we will meet in Ransom Fellowship Hall.

On Friday and Saturday we will be in Canon Lounge in the Gladfelter Building

Location Notes:

Ransom Fellowship Hall is behind the Chapel on the north end of campus.
There is limited parking adjacent to Ransom Fellowship Hall,
but additional parking is available across Warren Wilson road to the
northeast of Kittridge Theater. Parking on campus is extremely limited.
Please plan to carpool to the workshop if possible.

Canon Lounge is in the Gladfelter building on the south end of
campus. There is no visitor parking adjacent to Gladfelter and
parking on campus is extremely limited.
Please park in the parking lot to the northeast of Kittridge Theater and
carpool to the workshop if possible.

For directions to Warren Wilson College, see:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/admission/visit/directions.php

For a map of the Warren Wilson Campus, see:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/info/campus_map.php

Download PDF of the poster>>

 

To download the complete three-day information packet, which includes the detailed schedule and topics list as well as other information, click here.

Thursday	TOPICS
	Introductions
	Sustainability The closed-system concept
	World Situation Topsoil destruction; species loss Food production, diet choices, and their consequences
	Philosophy Growing crops, soil, people; individual responsibility
	History Chinese, Greek and South American traditional agriculture, French market gardeners, Bio-Dynamics, Alan Chadwick Sustainable systems
	Bed Preparation Soil, air, water, organic matter, nutrients, structure
	Double-Digging Principles, tools, techniques; surface cultivation
	Seed Propagation Transplanting vs. direct sowing Seedlings
	Diet Calories Sustainable diet and 60/30/10 design
	Simultaneous Sessions Income OR Crops and Seeds
Friday	Compost: Principles and techniques
	Compost Crops Carbon plus calories
	Fertility and Fertilization Living soil; feed the soil, not the plants Organic fertilizers, manure, compost
	40-Bed, 21-Bed, and One-Bed Units
	Demonstrations Double-digging, fertilizing, pricking out, transplanting
Saturday	Simultaneous Sessions 1. Water Use and Farming Techniques for Low-Rainfall Regions OR Crop Rotations 2. Human Waste and Fertility OR Companion Planting
	Planning Making the Best Use of the Master Charts
	Group Activity Planning Your Own One-Bed Unit
	Concluding Perspective

 

DAILY SCHEDULE
Thursday	8:00 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:45	Lunch
	1:45-5:30	Lecture
Friday	8:00 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:30	Lunch
	1:30-5:00	Demos
	6:30	Networking Supper
Saturday	8:00 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:45	Lunch
	1:45-5:00	Group Activity
Note: The schedule is subject to change, depending on the weather. This will be a non-smoking classroom.

The Workshop assumes pre-reading of How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine and/or The Sustainable Vegetable Garden—A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields.  The Workshop will be most useful to Participants if both have been read, preferably two weeks before the event.  

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Required Readings for the Workshop

The list below contains required reading for the 3-Day workshops, which you should do before you come to the Workshop, as well as other materials that you should bring with you.

You can order the full or partial set of these publications by visiting Bountiful Gardens.

(In addition to the reading below, there is a Workshop Manual of lecture notes
and key articles ($45), which you purchase when you sign up for the workshop,
and which is handed out at the beginning of the workshop.)

Required Reading (Read before the workshop, and bring with you) How to Grow More Vegetables, 7th ed., 2006 The Sustainable Vegetable Garden EA Booklet #14: The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm EA Booklet #26: Learning How To Grow All Your Own Food
Recommended Reading One Circle (especially pp. i-vi, 1-72, 125-128) EA Booklet #32: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Composting and Growing Compost Materials
Optional Reading General Perspective:  The Backyard Homestead, Mini-Farm and Garden Log Book  (Chapter 2) Diet / Compost / Income: EA Booklet #15: One Basic Mexican Diet EA Booklet #25: One Basic Kenyan Diet Compost Materials / Carbon: Booklet #12: Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer Research Perspective: EA Booklet #1: Cucumber Bonanza Saving Seeds: Booklet #13: Growing to Seed (rev. ed. 1999) Saving Seeds, Marc Rogers (Storey, 1990) Flowers: EA Booklet #18: Cut, Dried and Edible Flowers for Income, Pleasure and Taste Transforming Human Waste: Future Fertility Fertility: EA Booklet #29: Test Your Soil with Plants! Questions To Ask When Beginning To Farm: EA Booklet: Another Way to Wealth Teacher Training: EA Booklet #30: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming\Teacher-Training and Certification Program

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Location/ Food / Lodging / Transportation / Recreation
information and suggestions for the 3-Day Workshop

Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop,
except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration.

Here are some possibilities for the
April 8-10 2010 Three Day Workshop in Asheville, NC:

Location -- Lodging -- Food -- Transportation -- Recreation

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LOCATION

Warren Wilson College
Asheville, NC

On Thursday we will meet in Ransom Fellowship Hall.

On Friday and Saturday we will be in Canon Lounge in the Gladfelter Building

Location Notes:

Ransom Fellowship Hall is behind the Chapel on the north end of campus.
There is limited parking adjacent to Ransom Fellowship Hall,
but additional parking is available across Warren Wilson road to the
northeast of Kittridge Theater. Parking on campus is extremely limited.
Please plan to carpool to the workshop if possible.

Canon Lounge is in the Gladfelter building on the south end of
campus. There is no visitor parking adjacent to Gladfelter and
parking on campus is extremely limited.
Please park in the parking lot to the northeast of Kittridge Theater and
carpool to the workshop if possible.

For directions to Warren Wilson College, see:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/admission/visit/directions.php

For a map of the Warren Wilson Campus, see:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/info/campus_map.php

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WHERE TO STAY: Please make reservations ASAP!

NOTE: The Asheville area is a very popular tourist destination, so we strongly recommend reservations. Rates may vary with the seasons.

Click here for a list of hotels near the WWC campus

Click here for a list of hotels near the historic Biltmore Village in Asheville

Click here for a list of hotels near the Asheville Regional Airport

Check for Hotels with Google Local

The following information is taken from the Warren Wilson College website:

• Motels/Hotels (west of campus)
• Holiday Inn (closest) 828-298-5611
• Quality Inn (close- I-40 exit 55) 828-298-5519
• Days Inn (close- I-40 exit 55) 828-298-4000
• Motel 6 (close- I-40 exit 55) 828-2993040
• Grand Bohemian Hotel (Historic Biltmore Village, 15% discount "promotional code "SCHOOLS") 877-274-1242
• Renaissance Asheville (downtown) 828-252-8211
• Grove Park Inn Resort/Spa (near downtown) 828-252-2711
• Haywood Park Hotel (downtown) 828-252-3522
• Biltmore Estate (South of WWC- 20 min.) 828-255-1333
• Homewood Suites (I-240 near tunnel) 828-252-5400
• Spring Hill Suites (near mall/I-240) 828-253-4666

• B&B's/Inn's
• Monte Vista Inn (Black Mountain, 15 minutes away) 1-888-804-8438
• Abalone (rental house, 15 minutes away, Black Mountain, sleeps 5, $135 per night) 828-298-5088
• Red Rocker Inn (15 minutes east in Black Mountain) 828-669-5991
• Bella Luna B & B 828-664-9714
• Inn Around the Corner (15 minutes east in Black Mountain) 828-669-6005

• Camping
• Mama Gerties Hideaway (tent sites $25.00, primitive cabins $38.00, close) 828-686-4258
• KOA Campground (East on Tunnel road, close, $27.00) 828-686-3121
• Creekside Mt. Camping (45 minutes away near Chimney Rock, nice tent sites) 828-625-4257

The Asheville area has a large number of bed & breakfast and resort hotels. You can call the Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau at 828-258-6102 for more information.

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WHERE TO EAT:

Click a link to look at lists of restaurants and grocers in the Asheville, NC area:

• Restaurants in the Historic Biltmore Village: http://www.biltmorevillage.com/restaura.htm
  
  
• Restaurants in Asheville:

  http://www.exploreasheville.com/where-to-eat/index.aspx

  http://www.asheville.com/restaurants/

  http://airasheville.org/page/1694-Restaurants

  http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/north-carolina/asheville/restaurants.html

• Grocery stores and natural food stores in Asheville: http://www.ashevillenc.com/listings/groceries/
  

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TRANSPORTATION

Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) is Western North Carolina's largest and is serviced by AirTran, Continental, US Airways and Delta. AVL has non-stop service to Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis, New York City, Orlando, and Newark.

United Airlines will offer nonstop service to and from Chicago beginning December 17, 2009.

For more information about getting to, or finding your way around Asheville, try this website:

http://www.exploreasheville.com/local-info/getting-around/index.aspx

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ABOUT ASHEVILLE:

For more information about things to do, see, and eat in Asheville, NC, check the following websites:

• The Asheville, NC Website: http://www.ashevillenc.com/
• Historic Biltmore Village in Asheville http://www.biltmorevillage.com/
• Asheville Chamber of Commerce http://www.ashevillechamber.org/
• The Official Asheville, NC tourism website http://www.exploreasheville.com/index.aspx
  

See you in Asheville, NC!

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3-Day Workshop Registration: A Four Step Process

1. Download and read the 3-Day Workshop Information Packet.
   
   
2. Complete the Online Workshop Application/Registration Form (click the link to open our secure online registration form, hosted by FormSpring) for the Asheville, NC 3-Day Workshop, April 8-10, 2010.
   
   
3. Pay for workshop fees. When you submit your workshop registration, you will automatically be redirected to our online payment page, hosted by PayPal. Make sure to complete payment or your registration will not be processed. Prices are as follows:
   
   
   • $350 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: March 8, 2010).
     
     
   • $400 if received between March 9 and April 7, 2010
     
     
   • The required workshop manual is $45. Purchase it at the same time you pay for your workshop fees, and you will receive your copy at the workshop.
     
     
   • Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $20 per person. For food and lodging options, click here.
     
     
4. Look over the Required Reading for the 3- and 5-day workshops, and if you need any of the books or papers, order them from Bountiful Gardens.
   
   

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The Program

The program will consist of lecture, discussion and demonstration sessions, and will include a full range of information on Sustainability and Efficient Resource Use, Arid Region Farming Principles, Crops and Diet, Fertilization, Compost and Compost Crops, Soil Preparation and Preservation, Seed Propagation, and Income, as well as the perspective to tie all these together.

Demonstrations

One afternoon will be devoted to practical demonstrations, during which a few participants will be able to try their hand at double-digging, pricking out and/or transplanting.

Dates, Prices & Application Deadlines

Tokyo, Japan TBD September , 2011

$500 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: August, 2011) $600 if received between August 19 and September 4, 2011 (Applications will not be accepted after September 4, 2011 because we need time to prepare materials for the workshop)

Schedule

Just as GROW BIOINTENSIVE^® mini-farming functions as a whole system (rather than isolated techniques), this workshop constitutes a whole, with each section building on previous sections; it is therefore important to attend the entire workshop. Transportation should be scheduled so that participants can remain through 5 PM on Monday.

Required Reading / Ordering Publications

In order to ensure that you leave the workshop with the fullest range and depth of information possible, we will assume that all participants have read the publications listed under Required Reading. If you do not already own the required publications, you can purchase a full or partial set by ordering them from the Bountiful Gardens website.

The Workshop Manual of lecture notes and key articles (cost: $45, paid for when you register) will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.

Cost

The cost of the Three-Day Workshop per person is $500, plus $45 for the workshop manual (plus publications, if you do not already own them), if payment is received at least one month in advance; $600 if payment is received less than one month in advance. Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $TBD per person. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

Scholarships

Participants interested in scholarships are encouraged to contact garden clubs, youth groups, churches, Rotary or Kiwanis clubs, etc., for sponsorship. There are also a limited number of partial scholarships for tuition available through this workshop directly. Please telephone us for details at the number listed below.

Application

Pre-registration and payment should be completed by August 18, 2010 for the Tokyo, Japan workshop. However, participants are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as these workshops can fill well in advance. Registration should be completed online (see Registration and Fees, below), and will include a brief history of the applicant, a description of how he/she intends to use the information learned, and a paragraph or more on how he/she intends to be living and using the techniques 10 years from now.

In case of oversubscription, the staff will select later applicants on the basis of the impact their work is likely to have in the future; priority will be given to those with a goal of using GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming practices in outreach and public service projects. Workshop fees will be returned to those not selected.

Cancellation Policy

1) If a person cancels his/her workshop registration at least two weeks prior to the first day of the workshop, $400 of the workshop fee ($500 minus $100 processing fee) will be refunded or applied to another John Jeavons workshop during the year that follows.

2) Cancellations that occur less than two weeks before the start of a workshop will result in the loss of the registration fee, or $300 of the fee may be applied to another equivalent workshop during the following year.

Additional Information

• Your understanding of the workshop will be enhanced if you already know the following information about your area, which your County Agricultural Agent should be able to help you find: elevation, first and last frost dates (if applicable), rainfall by month, monthly high and low temperatures. (You can find forms for this information in EA Booklet #26, available from Bountiful Gardens.) You are welcome to bring along photos of the project you are involved in, if you wish.
  
  
• For information about similar workshops, see Ecology Action Workshops
  
  
• We hope you'll join us! Tape recorders or video cameras are not permitted at the workshop. Please bring your own mug for hot beverages. Also, please bring along a calculator, pencil, sturdy shoes or boots with good tread and gloves. As the weather could be cold, wet and/or sunny, it is recommended that you dress in layers. Consider bringing your own water bottle and a mosquito repellant.
  
  
• Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $TBD per person. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

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There is a GROW BIOINTENSIVE®
Sustainable Mini-Farming Three-Day Workshop scheduled for:

Tokyo, Japan
8 AM- 5PM, Location TBD
Event in Development: Sept 2011

Pre-registration is required for this workshop

Download PDF of the poster>>

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To download the complete three-day information packet, which includes the detailed schedule and topics list as well as other information, click here.

Saturday	TOPICS
	Introductions
	Sustainability The closed-system concept
	World Situation Topsoil destruction; species loss Food production, diet choices, and their consequences
	Philosophy Growing crops, soil, people; individual responsibility
	History Chinese, Greek and South American traditional agriculture, French market gardeners, Bio-Dynamics, Alan Chadwick Sustainable systems
	Bed Preparation Soil, air, water, organic matter, nutrients, structure
	Double-Digging Principles, tools, techniques; surface cultivation
	Seed Propagation Transplanting vs. direct sowing Seedlings
	Diet Calories Sustainable diet and 60/30/10 design
	Simultaneous Sessions Income OR Crops and Seeds
Sunday	Compost: Principles and techniques
	Compost Crops Carbon plus calories
	Fertility and Fertilization Living soil; feed the soil, not the plants Organic fertilizers, manure, compost
	40-Bed, 21-Bed, and One-Bed Units
	Demonstrations Double-digging, fertilizing, pricking out, transplanting
Monday	Simultaneous Sessions 1. Water Use and Farming Techniques for Low-Rainfall Regions OR Crop Rotations 2. Human Waste and Fertility OR Companion Planting
	Planning Making the Best Use of the Master Charts
	Group Activity Planning Your Own One-Bed Unit
	Concluding Perspective

 

DAILY SCHEDULE
Saturday	8:00 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:45	Lunch
	1:45-5:30	Lecture
Sunday	8:00 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:30	Lunch
	1:30-5:00	Demos
	6:30	Networking Supper
Monday	8:00 -12:30	Lecture
	12:30-1:45	Lunch
	1:45-5:00	Group Activity
Note: The schedule is subject to change, depending on the weather. This will be a non-smoking classroom.

The Workshop assumes pre-reading of How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine and/or The Sustainable Vegetable Garden—A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields.  The Workshop will be most useful to Participants if both have been read, preferably two weeks before the event.  

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Required Readings for the Workshop

The list below contains required reading for the 3-Day workshops, which you should do before you come to the Workshop, as well as other materials that you should bring with you.

You can order the full or partial set of these publications by visiting Bountiful Gardens.

(In addition to the reading below, there is a Workshop Manual of lecture notes
and key articles ($45), which you purchase when you sign up for the workshop,
and which is handed out at the beginning of the workshop.)

Required Reading (Read before the workshop, and bring with you) How to Grow More Vegetables, 7th ed., 2006 The Sustainable Vegetable Garden EA Booklet #14: The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm EA Booklet #26: Learning How To Grow All Your Own Food
Recommended Reading One Circle (especially pp. i-vi, 1-72, 125-128) EA Booklet #32: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Composting and Growing Compost Materials
Optional Reading General Perspective:  The Backyard Homestead, Mini-Farm and Garden Log Book  (Chapter 2) Diet / Compost / Income: EA Booklet #15: One Basic Mexican Diet EA Booklet #25: One Basic Kenyan Diet Compost Materials / Carbon: Booklet #12: Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer Research Perspective: EA Booklet #1: Cucumber Bonanza Saving Seeds: Booklet #13: Growing to Seed (rev. ed. 1999) Saving Seeds, Marc Rogers (Storey, 1990) Flowers: EA Booklet #18: Cut, Dried and Edible Flowers for Income, Pleasure and Taste Transforming Human Waste: Future Fertility Fertility: EA Booklet #29: Test Your Soil with Plants! Questions To Ask When Beginning To Farm: EA Booklet: Another Way to Wealth Teacher Training: EA Booklet #30: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming\Teacher-Training and Certification Program

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Location/ Food / Lodging / Transportation / Recreation
information and suggestions for the 3-Day Workshop

Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop,
except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration.

Here are some possibilities for the
September 18-20 2010 Three Day Workshop in Tokyo, Japan:

Location -- Lodging -- Food -- Transportation -- Recreation

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LOCATION

Tokyo, Japan

The exact location of the workshop is TBD.
Come back soon for more information!

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WHERE TO STAY:

Click a link to look at lists of suggested hotels or hostels in the Tokyo area:

• Lonely Planet: http://hotels.lonelyplanet.com/japan/tokyo-r2148/
• Tokyo Tourism Info: http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/tourists/accommodations/index.html

 

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WHERE TO EAT:

Click a link to look at lists of suggested restaurants in the Tokyo area:

• Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/japan/tokyo/restaurants
• Tokyo Tourism Info: http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/tourists/restaurant/restaurant2.html
  

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TRANSPORTATION

For information on how to get to and around Tokyo, check out the Lonely Planet site:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/japan/tokyo/transport/getting-there-around

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ABOUT TOKYO:

For more information about things to do, see, and eat in Tokyo, check the following websites:

• Tokyo City Guide: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2164.html
• Tokyo Tourism Info: http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/
• Lonely Planet Tokyo Guide: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/japan/tokyo
• Wikitravel Tokyo: http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo
  

See you in Tokyo, Japan!

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3-Day Workshop Registration: A Four Step Process

1. Download and read the 3-Day Workshop Information Packet.
   
   
2. Complete the Online Workshop Application/Registration Form (click the link to open our secure online registration form, hosted by FormSpring) for the Tokyo, Japan 3-Day Workshop, Sept, 2011.
   
   
3. Pay for workshop fees. When you submit your workshop registration, you will automatically be redirected to our online payment page, hosted by PayPal. Make sure to complete payment or your registration will not be processed. Prices are as follows:
   
   
   • $500 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: TBD).
     
     
   • $600 if received between (Deadline: TBD)
     
     
   • The required workshop manual is $45. Purchase it at the same time you pay for your workshop fees, and you will receive your copy at the workshop.
     
     
   • Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $TBD per person. For food and lodging options, click here.
     
     
4. Look over the Required Reading for the 3- and 5-day workshops, and if you need any of the books or papers, order them from Bountiful Gardens.
   
   

The Program

The program will consist of lecture, discussion and demonstration sessions, and will include a full range of information on Sustainability and Efficient Resource Use, Arid Region Farming Principles, Crops and Diet, Fertilization, Compost and Compost Crops, Soil Preparation and Preservation, Seed Propagation, and Income, as well as the perspective to tie all these together.

Demonstrations

One afternoon will be devoted to practical demonstrations, during which a few participants will be able to try their hand at double-digging, pricking out and/or transplanting.

Dates, Prices & Application Deadlines

Tuscany, Italy Exact location TBD October 13-17, 2010

$500 if received at least one month in advance (Deadline: September 13, 2010) $600 if received between September 14 and October 5, 2010 (Applications will not be accepted after October 5, 2010 because we need time to prepare materials for the workshop)

Schedule

Just as GROW BIOINTENSIVE^® mini-farming functions as a whole system (rather than isolated techniques), this workshop constitutes a whole, with each section building on previous sections; it is therefore important to attend the entire workshop. Transportation should be scheduled so that participants can remain through 5 PM on Sunday.

Required Reading / Ordering Publications

In order to ensure that you leave the workshop with the fullest range and depth of information possible, we will assume that all participants have read the publications listed under Required Reading. If you do not already own the required publications, you can purchase a full or partial set by ordering them from the Bountiful Gardens website.

The Workshop Manual of lecture notes and key articles (cost: $45, paid for when you register) will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop.

Cost

The cost of the Five-Day Workshop per person is $500, plus $45 for the workshop manual (plus publications, if you do not already own them), if payment is received at least one month in advance; $600 if payment is received less than one month in advance. Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $TBD per person. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

Scholarships

Participants interested in scholarships are encouraged to contact garden clubs, youth groups, churches, Rotary or Kiwanis clubs, etc., for sponsorship. There are also a limited number of partial scholarships for tuition available through this workshop directly. Please telephone us for details at the number listed below.

Application

Pre-registration and payment should be completed by September 13, 2010 for the Tuscany, Italy workshop. However, participants are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as these workshops can fill well in advance. Registration should be completed online (see Registration and Fees, below), and will include a brief history of the applicant, a description of how he/she intends to use the information learned, and a paragraph or more on how he/she intends to be living and using the techniques 10 years from now.

In case of oversubscription, the staff will select later applicants on the basis of the impact their work is likely to have in the future; priority will be given to those with a goal of using GROW BIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farming practices in outreach and public service projects. Workshop fees will be returned to those not selected.

Cancellation Policy

1) If a person cancels his/her workshop registration at least two weeks prior to the first day of the workshop, $400 of the workshop fee ($500 minus $100 processing fee) will be refunded or applied to another John Jeavons workshop during the year that follows.

2) Cancellations that occur less than two weeks before the start of a workshop will result in the loss of the registration fee, or $300 of the fee may be applied to another equivalent workshop during the following year.

Additional Information

• Your understanding of the workshop will be enhanced if you already know the following information about your area, which your County Agricultural Agent should be able to help you find: elevation, first and last frost dates (if applicable), rainfall by month, monthly high and low temperatures. (You can find forms for this information in EA Booklet #26, available from Bountiful Gardens.) You are welcome to bring along photos of the project you are involved in, if you wish.
  
  
• For information about similar workshops, see Ecology Action Workshops
  
  
• We hope you'll join us! Tape recorders or video cameras are not permitted at the workshop. Please bring your own mug for hot beverages. Also, please bring along a calculator, pencil, sturdy shoes or boots with good tread and gloves. As the weather could be cold, wet and/or sunny, it is recommended that you dress in layers. Consider bringing your own water bottle and a mosquito repellant.
  
  
• Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop, except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration. If you wish to bring a guest to the networking dinner, the cost for the dinner will be $TBD per person. For food and lodging options, click here. If you have any special food allergies, we recommend you bring your own food.

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There is a GROW BIOINTENSIVE®
Sustainable Mini-Farming Five-Day Workshop scheduled for:

Tuscany, Italy
8 AM- 5PM, Location TBD
Wednesday - Sunday October 13-17, 2010

Come back soon for detailed location information about this workshop

Download PDF of the poster>>

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5-Day Workshop Topics and Schedule
October, 13-17, 2010 Location TBD
Tuscany, Italy

To download the complete three-day information packet, which includes the detailed schedule and topics list as well as other information, click here.

Detailed Schedule
The GROW BIOINTENSIVE workshop will take place with topical lectures in the morning and practicals in the field during at least one morning. John Jeavons with the assistance of Steve Moore will cover basic and intermediate concepts and will touch on advanced concepts of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE system. Greatly reduced resource consumption makes Biointensive one good option for a world facing so many challenges. The mis-use of Biointensive practices that can make Biointensive unsustainable and how to avoid this will also be discussed.
Day	Time	Activity
Wed	8:00-9:00	Registration of Participants
	9:00-10:30	Opening and Introductions of Staff and Participants
	10:30-11:30	Introductory Presentation: GROW BIOINTENSIVE: Produce higher yields with a fraction of the water, nutrient and energy resources while using open-pollinated seeds - John Jeavons (J)
	11:30-12:00	Break
	12:00-13:00	Introductory Presentation, continued (J)
	13:00-14:00	Lunch
	14:30-15:30	Soil health: Nutrient availability, structure and biological activity as a framework and foundation for the principles of GROW BIOINTENSIVE. It starts with the economy of nature and our needs for a sustainable food system.- Steve Moore (S)
	15:30-16:00	Break
	16:00-17:00	Initial Double-digging: Develop good, deep soil structure so the plants will have a “living sponge cake: in which to thrive (J)
	17:00-17:30	Organization of Groups and Instructors: For Field Practice and One-Bed Unit Design Exercise
Thurs	8:00-8:30	Travel to Garden
	8:30-12:30	Soil Preparation, Composting and Seed Propagation Field Practice (J, S and Instructors)
	12:30-13:00	Travel from Garden
	13:00-14:00	Lunch
	14:00-16:00	Compost: Maximize quality and quantity of cured compost produced per unit of compost built and maximize microbiodiversity (J)
	16:00-16:30	Break
	16:30-17:30	Energy Use: Another way to make the production of all your food and income more efficiently (S)
Fri	8:30-10:30	Close Spacing: For enhanced and unterrupted plant growth, Crop Rotations: For more sustainable soil fertility and Companion Planting: For increased plant health and biodiversity (J and S)
	10:30-11:00	Break
	11:00-12:30	Diet Design for the World of the Future: A Miniaturization of Agri-Culture to Meet the Challenges of Today - The most calories, vitamins and minerals in the smallest area (J)
	12:30-13:30	Lunch
	13:30-15:30	Water Conservation with Academic Illustrations: For an increasingly desertified world (J)
	15:30-16:15	Income Farming
	16:15-16:30	Special Tools: For more efficient farming (S)
	16:30-17:30	Project Creation and Mini-Ag Center/Soil Test Stations (Mini-Stations): Key to on-the-ground, practical, local, inspirational education, soil testing and fertilization (J and S)
Sat	8:30-10:30	Organic Open-Pollinated Seed Production: Seed diversity and security in just 3%+ additional area (J)
	10:30-11:00	Break
	11:00-12:30	Program Creation and Organizational Involvement: How organizations at all levels can work together to create a nationwide program for food security with greatly strengthened communities (J and S)
	12:30-13:30	Lunch
	13:30-17:30	Group Design of One-Bed Units: Learning, Teaching, Demonstration Models which, when grown in just minutes a day, teach everything one needs to know for raising the most nutrition in the smallest area— and which can easily be scaled up to provide an annual diet for one person in 4,000 quare feet/380 square meters or less (J and S)
Sun	8:30-10:30	Sustainability in the Mini-Farm/Garden through a Whole System and thriving Mini-Ecosystems: Grow and maintain sustainable soil fertility with 50/30/20 and 60/30/10 Design Model planning aids (J)
	10:30-11:00	Break
	11:00-12:30	Certified GROW BIOINTENSIVE Teachers and Their Importance for Quality Assurance (J and S)
	12:00-13:00	Diploma-Giving and Closing Ceremony
	13:00-14:00	Lunch
	14:00	Departure

 

DAILY SCHEDULE
Wednesday	8:00 -13:00	Lecture
	13:00-14:00	Lunch
	14:00-17:30	Demos
Thursday	8:30 -12:30	Field Practice
	12:30-13:30	Lunch
	14:00-17:30	Lecture & Demo
Friday	8:30 -12:30	Field Practice
	12:30-13:30	Lunch
	14:00-17:30	Lecture
Saturday	8:30 -12:30	Field Practice
	12:30-13:30	Lunch
	14:00-17:30	Lecture & Demo
Sunday	8:30 -10:30	Field Practice
	10:30-11:00	Break
	11:00-13:00	Lecture & Closing Ceremony
	13:00-14:00	Lunch & Departure
Note: The schedule is subject to change, depending on the weather. This will be a non-smoking classroom.

The Workshop assumes that participants have already read How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine and/or
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden—A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields. 
The Workshop will be most useful to participants if both have been read, preferably two weeks before the event.  

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Required Readings for the Workshop

The list below contains required reading for the 5-Day workshops, which you should do before you come to the Workshop, as well as other materials that you should bring with you.

You can order the full or partial set of these publications by visiting Bountiful Gardens.

(In addition to the reading below, there is a Workshop Manual of lecture notes
and key articles ($45), which you purchase when you sign up for the workshop,
and which is handed out at the beginning of the workshop.)

Required Reading (Read before the workshop, and bring with you) How to Grow More Vegetables, 7th ed., 2006 The Sustainable Vegetable Garden EA Booklet #14: The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm EA Booklet #26: Learning How To Grow All Your Own Food
Recommended Reading One Circle (especially pp. i-vi, 1-72, 125-128) EA Booklet #32: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Composting and Growing Compost Materials
Optional Reading General Perspective:  The Backyard Homestead, Mini-Farm and Garden Log Book  (Chapter 2) Diet / Compost / Income: EA Booklet #15: One Basic Mexican Diet EA Booklet #25: One Basic Kenyan Diet Compost Materials / Carbon: Booklet #12: Growing and Gathering Your Own Fertilizer Research Perspective: EA Booklet #1: Cucumber Bonanza Saving Seeds: Booklet #13: Growing to Seed (rev. ed. 1999) Saving Seeds, Marc Rogers (Storey, 1990) Flowers: EA Booklet #18: Cut, Dried and Edible Flowers for Income, Pleasure and Taste Transforming Human Waste: Future Fertility Fertility: EA Booklet #29: Test Your Soil with Plants! Questions To Ask When Beginning To Farm: EA Booklet: Another Way to Wealth Teacher Training: EA Booklet #30: GROW BIOINTENSIVE Sustainable Mini-Farming\Teacher-Training and Certification Program

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Location/ Food / Lodging / Transportation / Recreation
information and suggestions for the 3-Day Workshop

Participants will be responsible for providing all meals and lodging for this workshop,
except for the Networking Dinner, which is included with registration.

Here are some possibilities for the
October 13-17 2010 Five Day Workshop in Italy:

Location -- Lodging -- Food -- Transportation -- Recreation

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LOCATION

Tuscany, Italy

The exact location of the workshop is TBD.
Come back soon for more information!

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WHERE TO STAY:

Come back soon for more information!

 

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WHERE TO EAT:

Come back soon for more information!

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TRANSPORTATION

Come back soon for more information!

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ABOUT TUSCANY:

• Come back soon for more information!
  
  

 

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