North Texas Vegetable Gardeners Forum
Businesses => Texas Plant & Soil Lab => Topic started by: Frank on November 21, 2012, 08:48:18 AM
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Yo! It seems that we are to give a pre-2013 TOFGA (Texas Organic & Farmers Association) Annual Conference seminar in February - plus a presentation on each day of the Conference, itself. Our pre-Conference Seminar is entitled "Farm Smart - Grow Smart" - "Grow More and Better With Less" - "The Basics of Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition". The Conference presentations will be on "Soil Fertility & Soil Testing" and "The Basics of Plant Nutrition".
We never do anything half-way! These'll be action-packed sessions with lotz 'o very relevant, hands-on, practical info. The pre-Conference Seminar will include a large course manual. It will be a condensation of our own 2-1/2 day annual seminar...
The pre-Conference Seminar will be presented by our own Noel Garcia, CCA - Vice President of Operations and Chief Consulting Analyst and by Dr. Larry Zibilske - our Vice President of Research (uh, Google his name to find out more about him - until you get tired). This seminar will be a long day! The two hour-long Conference sessions shall be conducted by this writer.
This will all be really VERY INTENSIVE basic, practical, essential, hands-on, out-there-out-in-the-field (or garden) stuff. You really need to be there!
Right now, we don't know if Noel and Dr. Larry will be available for questions and discussion during the actual Conference over the two days of the following actual Conference... Hopefully, we'll find out this year...
You can find out the details about this at: http://www.tofga.org/2013_program (http://www.tofga.org/2013_program). But you can get a bigger picture about all the stuff that is gonna go on at: http://www.tofga.org/TOFGA_events?eventId=517088&EventViewMode=EventDetails (http://www.tofga.org/TOFGA_events?eventId=517088&EventViewMode=EventDetails).
Space is limited for the pre-Conference Seminar! We're told to about 20...
The cutoff date for registration and payment is January 15th for the pre-Conference Seminar - go to the TOFGA websites, mentioned above, for info on that - they're handling the arrangements... (We gotta have some time to print the course manuals - in addition to course notes, they will also include nearly all of our papers - some of which are not included on either of our websites: www.AskThePlant.com (http://www.AskThePlant.com) or www.TexasPlantAndSoilLab.com (http://www.TexasPlantAndSoilLab.com)). Also, you might have a look at www.SoilKits.com (http://www.SoilKits.com) - not us, but they do provide you with simple and easy on-line ordering for tests and give you some options that we don't... By the way, we've done a lotta work on AskThePlant.com - and check out our ads in ACRESusa. If you haven't seen either of these lately, you might have a look...
Hope we're gonna see ya!
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sounds great!