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GREEN INDUSTRY BASICS WORKSHOP AGENDA
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- Soil
- What is it?
- Definitions
- Soil functions
- Components
- Description
- Textural classes
- Soil qualities
- Formation
- Description and factors
- Soil profile
- Specifications
- General
- ASTM
- Characteristics of productive soils
- Organic matter and it’s benefits
- Soil organic matter
- Active vs. passive OM
- Role of SOM
- soil structure
- nutrients
- decomposition
- Soil health concept
- Plants
- General plant growth principles
- Photosynthesis
- Other related processes
- Carbon and nitrogen cycles
- Improving plant growth with compost
- Nutrients – requirements and fate
- Air – requirements
- Water - its movement and availability
- Effects of compaction
- Necessary properties of a plant growth media
- Facts about root growth
- Basics about major crop types and systems – understanding how and where compost fits
- Landscaping
- Wholesale nursery production
- Turf
- Agriculture
- Reclamation
- Related products, their function (and how they relate to compost)
- Compost
- Description
- Characteristics - quality aspects and typical ranges
- Benefits
- Other products – use purpose(s), use market(s), comparison to compost (pros vs. cons)
- Other soil amendments
- Peat
- Mushroom soil
- Bark / wood products
- Topdressing
- Fertilizers / nutrients
- Requirements and functions
- Availability and loss
- Growing media components
- Peat
- Bark
- Coir
- Perlite / vermiculite / styrofoam / sand, etc.
- Mulches
- Function vs. aesthetics
- Manure / sludges
- Lime
- General compost applications
Baseline Technical Knowledge for Selling Compost
Time |
Subject |
8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration |
9:00 – 9:15 |
Introduction |
9:15 – 10:15 |
Soil
(Definition, components, functions, formation and specifications) |
10:15 – 10:30 |
Group exercise
Characterizing soil
(Textural analysis of attendees soil samples) |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
10:45 – 11:15 |
Organic matter and it’s benefits |
11:15 – 12:30 |
Plants
(General plant growth principles and processes, improving plant growth with compost, basics about major crop types and systems) |
12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
1:30 – 2:00 |
Compost characteristics |
2:00 – 3:15 |
Understanding competing (or replacement) products
(Other soil amendments, topdressing, fertilizer, lime, growing media components, mulches, manure and biosolids/sludges) |
3:15 – 3:45 |
Group exercise
Review actual competing product samples |
3:45 – 4:00 |
Conclusion |
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WORKSHOPS
