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Community => Events => Topic started by: Rosemary on July 04, 2018, 09:34:24 am

Title: Soil Association Scotland Events Summer 2018 Part 1
Post by: Rosemary on July 04, 2018, 09:34:24 am

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Field Lab: L[/url][/u] (https://www.soilassociation.org/our-work-in-scotland/farming-for-the-future/events/field-lab-less-toil-better-soil/?utm_source=Scotland+farming+publicity+group&utm_campaign=5718f2d67b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5d054f2f2-5718f2d67b-)ess Toil Better Soil[/url][/u]. Making great compost[/b][/font]
[/color]Thursday 5th July, 1.15-3.30pm, Left Field Market Garden, Neilston[/b][/font]
[/color] [/b][/color]All market gardens rely on good quality compost, but which system will work best for your scale and site? Join us at our third Field Lab event with Locavore’s market gardeners, and learn how to make great compost with crop and soil scientist Audrey Litterick. We’ll also have a look at the trial beds of kale to see how the green manures are doing. Call Clem on 0131 666 2474, or [/color] (http://[email protected]/?utm_source=Scotland+farming+publicity+group&utm_campaign=5718f2d67b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5d054f2f2-5718f2d67b-)email[/url][/u]. Funding for this activity is made available through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (which is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the European Union), with partner funding from Quality Meat Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, Innovative Farmers and The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.[/i][/font]
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[/color][/color] (https://www.soilassociation.org/our-work-in-scotland/farming-for-the-future/events/field-lab-grass-seed-mixes/?utm_source=Scotland+farming+publicity+group&utm_campaign=5718f2d67b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5d054f2f2-5718f2d67b-)Field Lab: Grass Seed Mixes[/url][/u][/b][/color][/font] [/size]Wednesday 11th July, 1–3.30pm, Mouldyhills Farm, Langholm [/size][/color][/font][/size] [/size]Which grass seed mixes work best for Scottish soils and climate? This is our second meeting at Mouldyhills, where we’ll be looking at how the trial plots have fared in the face of challenging conditions.  We’ll be joined by grass and soil expert James Bretherton AgScope and Andrew Best, Watson Seeds. To find out more about the Field Lab read this initial (https://www.soilassociation.org/media/13165/field-lab-report-mouldyhills.pdf?utm_source=Scotland+farming+publicity+group&utm_campaign=5718f2d67b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5d054f2f2-5718f2d67b-)report[/url][/u]. Call Clem on 0131 666 2474, or [/size][/color] (http://[email protected]/?utm_source=Scotland+farming+publicity+group&utm_campaign=5718f2d67b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5d054f2f2-5718f2d67b-)email[/url][/u]. Funding for this activity is made available through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (which is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the European Union), with partner funding from Quality Meat Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, Innovative Farmers and The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.[/i][/font]