[GreenYes] Fwd: FW: Vermicompost field day

[Mary Appelhof <mappelho@tds.net>]

Michele Young from San Jose has sent me information about this 
exciting vermicompost workshop offered by University of California 
Cooperative Extension. It is Dec. 12, 2001 from 9 am to 1 pm, free, 
and open to anyone who can make it.  Please pass this to everyone on 
your list who may be interested.  and feel free to print and 
distribute as possible.

FREE WORKSHOP WITH TOP OF THE LINe PRESENTERS! 


 
An excellent opportunity to learn from top-notch leaders
 
in vermicomposting will take place on Wednesday, Dec.
 
12 from 9-1 pm at the Bay Area Research and Extension
 
Center in Santa Clara, California.

 
Sessions and speakers include:

 
Alternatives in Organic Waste Handling in the City of
 
San Jose: Michele Young. City of San Jose

 
California Grey Bears In-vessel Composting : Karin
 
Grobe, Organic Recyclers Anonymous

 
In-vessel Food Composting Technologies: Yvette
 
DiCarlo, California Integrated Waste Management
 
Board

 
Large Scale Vermicomposting: Mario Travalini, Organics
 
Division, American Resource Recovery

 
Medium Scale Vermicompost and effects of VC on chilii
 
pepper and soil: Vaishali Tamhankar, UCCE Santa Clara
 
Cty

 
Hand-on Vermicompost Harvest: Vaishali Tamhankar
 
and Maria de la Fuente, UCCE Santa Clara County

 
This field day is FREE and coffee and refreshments are
 
being provided by "From the Ground Up" and "Organic
 
Recyclers Anonymous.

 
For more information, contact: Sue Conde, UCCE Office
 
Assistant @ 408-299-2635 ext. 1002 Dr. Zak Mousli,
 
BAREC @ 408-296-1672

>
>
>Hope some of you can make it! If not, at least you know that good 
>things continue to happen in the vermicomposting education 
>department!



>Contact Cooperative Extension at:
>
>700 Empey Way, Suite 110
>San Jose CA 95128
>408 299-2635 x 1002
>408 298-5160 Fax
>cesantaclara@ucdavis.edu
>
>

-- 
Mary Appelhof, Author of "Worms Eat My Garbage"
Flowerfield Enterprises
10332 Shaver Road
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49024 USA
PH:616-327-0108  FAX 616-327-7009 
http://www.wormwoman.com/acatalog/vermicomposting.html 
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