NJ Inegrating Organic Practices Workshop

[phasthound]

Integrating Organic Practices into your Landscape Business

February 20, 2007
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, NJ 08534-4303
Co-sponsored with Tech-Terra Organics, LLC and Plant Health Alternatives, LLC
Integrating Organic Practices Into Your Landscaping Business. A one-day symposium to help professional landscapers and tree care companies establish a unique market position; improved profits with outstanding results while reducing pesticide and synthetic fertilizer usage.

8:00 Registration and refreshments
8:15 Watershed
Greetings & mission
8:30 Barbara Bromley, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County Horticulturalist
Topic: Proper planting of ornamentals
9:15 Patricia Hastings, Program Associate Pest Management Rutgers Cooperative Extension.
Topic: Pesticide Safety
10:00 Mikey Azzara, Outreach Coordinator Northeast Organic Farmers Association of NJ
Topic:
10:15 Break
10:30 Bill Duesing, Executive Director, Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Connecticut
Topic: NOFA CT Five-day course on ecological landscaping practices
11:15 Joe Broyles, Plant Health Care, Inc.
Topic: Benefits of soil microbes
11:45 Gary Maurer, GreenPro, Inc
Topic: Calibration of liquid application equipment
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Joseph Heckman; Rutgers Extension Specialist in Soil Fertility
Topic: Organic soil fertility
1:30 Charles Clark, Superintendent Woodbury Country Club
Topic: Getting results using organics on turf and ornamentals
2:00 Evan Dickerson, Dickerson Landscape Contractors, Executive Chairman of the Professional Landscape Alliance of New Jersey
Topic: Organic residential lawn care
2:30 Break
2:45 Steven K. Rettke, Ornamental IPM Program Associate
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Camden County
Topic: Effective Biorational Insecticides Available to Landscapers
3:30 Dr. Jim Conroy, Plant Health Alternatives, LLC
Topic: Fixing stressed plants
3:45 Barry Draycott, Tech-Terra Organics, LLC
Topic: Soil amendments used to reduce disease susceptibility for woody ornamentals.
4:00 Concluding remarks, Pesticide credits & adjournment




Registration Fee $50
NJ Pesticide credtis awarded.
Refreshments and Lunch included!!
Seating is limited!! Contact Alyse Greenberg
(609)737-3735 [email protected]
for information and registration.

 

[Adkpk]

New Jersey, organics, is that posible?
Good post phast. Hope everyone jumps in both feet forward.

 

[phasthound]

NJ Intergrating organics into your business

Yo, you're right, seams hard to believe.
If any place needs to increase awareness of the benefits (no, necessity) of reducing pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, it's NJ.
Good news is, we only have 5 seats left.

 

[phasthound]

Someday, I will learn to spell "integrating"