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03/30/06

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Winter Quarter: Download the word file here.

Week 1: Introduction to Soils, Physical Properties

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Lecture Notes: Introduction to Soil (Steve Tuesday), Study Questions (PDF), CH 1,2,3

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Lecture Notes: Soil Architecture and Physical Properties (Steve Thurs), Study Questions, CH 4

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Lab Notes for Soil Macrofauna (Martha)

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Lab Exercise Questions: Soil Texture Lab (Soil Texture Mapped Results in Excel)

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Seminar Notes: The Essential Agrarian Reader

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Other Notes: Soil Sampling, Nancy Parks workshop, Liza Rognas Reference Librarian

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Cover Crop Observations

Week 2: Soil Fauna, Organic Matter

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Lecture Notes: Soil Organisms and Ecology (Martha Tues), Study Questions, CH 11

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Lecture Notes: Soil Organic Matter (Martha Friday), Study Questions, CH 12

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Lab Notes for Analysis of Berleze Baerman: Soil Macrofauna (Steve & Martha)

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Excel Tutorial: Farm groups for Nutrient cycle

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Video Notes: Life in the Soil

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Seminar Notes: Agrarian Dreams

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Cover Crop Observations

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Library Research Topics Are Due Friday List of 59 Research Topic Ideas

Week 3: Eco-Farm, Research Project (In-depth) 

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Eco-Farm Notes Taken

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Notes of research done and meeting notes with Liza Rognas at 1pm on Tues at the Ref Librarians Desk and arrange another time to meet with her.

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Steve's Email week reminder on what to do!

Week 4: Water and Acidity

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Lecture Notes: Soil Water and the hydrologic cycle (Steve Tues) Study Question, BW 5.6 to end and CH 6

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Lecture Notes: Soil Acidity and Chemistry Review (Martha and Steve) Study Question, CH 9

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Lab Notes: Lab Soil pH and Lime Requirements

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Seminar Notes: The Subsistence Perspective (first half)

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Other Notes: Debrief of Eco-Farm, Intro to GIS for mapping soil properties, Farm Internships or Campus Sustainability Presentation

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Summary of Independent Research Topic and Soil Texture Lab

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Cover Crop Observations

Week 5: Nitrogen, Sulphur, Nitrogen-fix

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Lecture Notes: Nitrogen and Sulfur Economy of Soils (Steve Tuesday) Study Questions, CH 13

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Lecture Notes: Nitrogen Fixation (Martha Tuesday) Study Questions

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Lab Notes: Soil Microorganisms (Steve and Martha)

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Seminar Notes: The Subsistence Perspective (second half)

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Other Notes: Spreadsheet Workshop: Nitrogen release from compost and fertilizers (Steve)

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PROGRAM JOURNAL DUE! Due: Notes, Study Questions, and all other work done to this point as mentioned above!

Week 6: Compost Microorganisms, P, K

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Lecture: Soil Microorganisms (Steve Tuesday)

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Lecture Soil N,P,K (Martha Friday) Study Questions, CH 14

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Notes on Workshop: Compost Tea and Compost Quality (Steve Thursday)

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Lab Notes: Continuation of week 5 Soil Microorganisms Observation and Drawing

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Seminar Notes: Fateful Harvest.

Week 7: Field Trip, Mycorrhizae Policy

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Field Trip Notes on Puyallup Compost Facility, WSU (Steve)

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Seminar Notes: Omish Readings on MASU

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Lab Notes: Mycorrhizae

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Other Notes: Nutrient Cycling on Farm Calculations, Mycorrhizae and P uptake (Martha), Agricultural Policy Workshop

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Cover Crop Observations

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Video Notes: Not to be Amish

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Draft of Library Research Paper Due

Week 8: Heavy Metals and Micron Nutrients, Synergy

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Lecture Notes: Micronutrients and Heavy Metals in Soils (Martha) Study Question CH 15, 18

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Seminar Notes: Eat Here,  Fateful Harvest

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Video Notes: Little Ice Age

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Cover Crop Observations

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Vision Paper Due

Week 9: Practical Management

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Lecture Notes: Practical Nutrient Management (Martha) Study Questions

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Lab Notes: Workshop on how to read a soil analysis report; Hands-on soil amendments with Gary Kline (Steve and Martha)

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Seminar Notes: Gaviotas

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Cover Crop Observations

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Soils Final Exam

Week 10: Presentations

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Presentation Notes: Student Research Presentations

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Seminar Notes: Synthesis Discussion

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Cover Crop Observations

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Program Journal DUE with ALL WORK

 

Fall Quarter Lectures:
bulletplease visit: https://calfiles.evergreen.edu/programs/EcoAgriculture/  for the lecture!
bulletPesticides lecture 11-10-05.pdf

If you can't find the lecture your looking for there, please contact Steve or Martha at:

Steve: scheuers@evergreen.edu

Martha: rosemeym@evergreen.edu

 

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