New Paradigm Agronomy
with Hugh Lovel
New 2-day workshop
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Designed for
Orchardists, Farmers and Graziers
Amamoor (Gympie) Qld
1 & 2 July 2016
 Bio-Chemical Sequence-how plants
grow and thrive naturally
 Nitrogen Fixation (nitrogen is free)
 Weeds and What they tell you
 Rust, Fungus and other Baddies
 New way to interpret your Soil Tests
 Recovery of your soil after flood or
draught
 Build Self-Sustaining Soils
 What does carbon do for us?
 Radionics -Agriculture for the future
Who is Hugh Lovel?
Farmer, Writer for Acres USA &
Acres Australia,
International Eco-Ag Teacher,
Inventor of Field Broadcasters,
Founder Quantum Agriculture
Author of
A Biodynamic Farm and NEW
Quantum Agriculture Biodynamics
and Beyond
Can I reduce fertilizer bills
from building soil?
Soil tests? How reliable?
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How do weeds act as
mineral indicators?
How do I treat fungus?
How can I reduce my
chemical inputs?
My paddocks are not
producing as other years;
how can I bring life back
to my soil?
For reservations:
e-mail: [email protected]
or call (07) 5488 4315
The workshop will be held at Mary Valley Orchards, 255 Amamoor
Creek Road, Amamoor QLD 4570. Tel (07) 5488 4315.
A farm walk is scheduled on each day (Orchard and Holistic Grazing)
where you learn what to look for when checking your soil, weeds,
legumes, grasses etc.
Cost: $ 150.00 for 2 days / $ 85.00 for one day, includes morning
and afternoon tea.
Start: Both days 9am – 4.30pm
Converting to organic and sustainable farming occurs first in the farmer’s mind—he clearly
intends to go organic or biological and he knows it is feasible, economical and perhaps even
necessary. From the start high nitrogen inputs must be avoided. When nitrogen is added it
should be complexed with humic acids as in humified compost or buffered with raw humates or
liquid humate extracts.
Sulphur, boron, silicon, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous and potassium must be attended to
in that order, if biological nitrogen fixation is to provide an abundant steady supply of nitrogen
as freshly digested amino acids rather than nitrogen salts. Soluble, total and leaf testing is
recommended for fertilizer prescription blends and nutrient tracking. And the key to making this
run up rather than running down is life force or pattern energy. Ideally every crop grown should
leave the soil more fertile and alive than it was before. Until this occurs and the farm is selfsustaining in terms of inputs the farm ecology is not yet well enough designed or established.
The farmers that go eco the easiest are those who know very little about farming to begin with.
They may be ‘lifestyle’ or ‘hobby’ farmers who worked their lives in metropolitan careers but
always dreamed of having their own little orchard, vineyard, herb, berry, grain, veggie, tree, fish
or grazing operation. When such folks seek advice they are quite likely to follow it not knowing
what to expect, and they are likely to listen when their advisor asks them to check with him first
before doing anything that has not been recommended. The growers who have the most
trouble going ecological generally are conventional growers who are looking for the artificial
lushness and low vitality of NPK inputs and are convinced they truly have to use chemical
nitrogen and the other rescue chemistry that follows.
Eco consultants who work with these folks need to work doubly hard to hold these growers’
hands during conversion. Soluble NPK is the waste stream of soil microbes that make these
nutrients available to plants in organic forms, and it takes surprisingly little un-buffered chemical
fertilizer to scald plants’ fine feeder roots and their symbiotic microbial life and thus reverse all
the progress made. If the conventional grower who chooses to convert can resist the
contradictory advice of non-eco salesmen/consultants and go with someone who truly
understands how plants grow and who makes themselves available to hold their growers’
hands during conversion, then they may be in the 20% of conventional growers who have very
little trouble switching over.
Reservations:
Holistic Farming, 255 Amamoor Creek Road, Amamoor QLD 4570
[email protected] / (07) 5488 4315