Cost Effective Nutrition for Optimal Plant Health with LBLC

When it comes to plant health, the spectrum of different advice going around these days, on how to address nutrition, can be somewhat overwhelming.

Presented by local agro-ecologist Mark Tupman from Productive Ecology, this workshop will explore the pros and cons of the various diagnostic tools available and the measures we can implement in the development of a sound economical program that ensures robust growth and high quality production in any agricultural or horticultural enterprise.

By the end of the workshop participants will have gained a deeper understanding of:

• What elements are needed for important plant functions and stages of growth.
• How the soil environment and biology are a major factor that determine whether or not those elements are available to plants and in a form that they can efficiently utilise.
• How to test what elements are already present in the soil and the levels that are getting into the plants.
• How to address soil function and biology to improve plant availability.
• What to do about deficient elements
• Recipes for cost effective biological and nutritional inputs