Introducing Mr. Gil Carandang

[Mary Lorenz]

Aloha Everyone,

 

I have some very exciting news to share.  I have been researching NF in use in the tropics and have found that NF is really catching on in the Philippines.  This is due to the efforts of Mr. Gil Carandang, farmer and teacher of NF.

 

We have been communicating via email and today I had the great pleasure of speaking with Gil on the phone.  I am so excited to tell you that he is willing to come to Hawaii to teach a 2 day workshop on NF and to do private farm consultations.  The exact dates are to be announced but probably the end of July or beginning of August.  Please check out the links below and you will be as excited as I am.

 

Some of you may have heard that we were planning an input brewing workshop in lower Puna for the middle of July.  After speaking with Gil this morning, I feel that it will be worth waiting a few more weeks for his teaching.

 

Aloha,

 

Mary

 

MR. GIL CARANDANG

 

            Owner-farmer, Herbana Farms, Philippines

 

            Former Technical Director, Organic Producers and Trade Association (OPTA)

 

            Fulbright-DA Scholar, University of California Santa Cruz, Ecological Horticulture 

 

            President, Independent Organic Inspectors Association of the Philippines (IOIAP)

 

Training:

 

            Sustainable Organic Mini-Farming, John Jeavons of Ecology Action of Midpeninsula, Willits, California

 

            Organic Certification and Inspection: FibL and Biosinspecta of Switzerland

 

            Independent Organic Inspectors Assn. of U.S.

 

            Icocert of  Germany

 

            Natural Farming System for Crops and Livestock, Korean Natural Farming Association, mentored by Mr. Han Kyu Cho

 

Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, University of California

 

http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20040401/Hamilton

http://www.herbanafarm.com/Herbana2/About_Us.htm

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p090529.htm&no=52

 

Mary L. Lorenz

Great Exportations Hawaii

P.O. Box 1345

Pahoa, Hawaii  96778

808-965-8327

 

[Kim CS Chang]

Thanks Mary, It sounds great !!!
I think Natural farming seminar starts July 27 and ends Aug 7,2009 at the U of N in Kona.

I am so impressed with Greg's farm tonight. It was only less then 1 year ago we visited his farm...what a change !!!

I am so happy about this. It means our NF inputs are really working :)

See you tomorrow morning !

[Dona Willoughby]

I'd like more details on the seminar. Price, hours, how to enroll.

On 7/2/09, Kim CS Chang <kimrealt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Thanks Mary, It sounds great !!!*

> I think Natural farming seminar starts July 27 and ends Aug 7,2009 at the U
> of N in Kona.
> I am so impressed with Greg's farm tonight. It was only less then 1 year ago
> we visited his farm...what a change !!!
> I am so happy about this. It means our NF inputs are really working :)

> *See you tomorrow morning !*

>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Mary Lorenz
> <leialo...@hawaiiantel.net>wrote:
>
>> Aloha Everyone,
>>
>>
>>

>> I have some *very *exciting news to share. I have been researching NF in

>> use in the tropics and have found that NF is really catching on in the

>> Philippines. This is due to the efforts of *Mr. Gil* *Carandang*, farmer

>> and teacher of NF.
>>
>>
>>
>> We have been communicating via email and today I had the great pleasure of
>> speaking with Gil on the phone. I am so excited to tell you that he is
>> willing to come to Hawaii to teach a 2 day workshop on NF and to do
>> private
>> farm consultations. The exact dates are to be announced but probably the
>> end of July or beginning of August. Please check out the links below and
>> you will be as excited as I am.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some of you may have heard that we were planning an input brewing workshop
>> in lower Puna for the middle of July. After speaking with Gil this
>> morning,
>> I feel that it will be worth waiting a few more weeks for his teaching.
>>
>>
>>
>> Aloha,
>>
>>
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>>

>> *MR. GIL CARANDANG*

>>
>>
>>
>> Owner-farmer, Herbana Farms, Philippines
>>
>>
>>
>> Former Technical Director, Organic Producers and Trade
>> Association (OPTA)
>>
>>
>>
>> Fulbright-DA Scholar, University of California Santa Cruz,
>> Ecological Horticulture
>>
>>
>>
>> President, Independent Organic Inspectors Association of the
>> Philippines (IOIAP)
>>
>>
>>

>> *Training:*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> * *Sustainable Organic Mini-Farming, John Jeavons of Ecology

>> Action of Midpeninsula, Willits, California
>>
>>
>>
>> Organic Certification and Inspection: FibL and Biosinspecta of
>> Switzerland
>>
>>
>>
>> Independent Organic Inspectors Assn. of U.S.
>>
>>
>>
>> Icocert of Germany
>>
>>
>>

>> *Natural Farming System for Crops and Livestock, Korean
>> Natural Farming Association, mentored by Mr. Han Kyu Cho*
>>
>> * *

[Kim CS Chang]

Aloha Dana,

This natural farming seminar is at University of nation in Kona.

http://www.uofnkona.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128&Itemid=304 

Dr. Park and James choi will be there to conduct this seminar.

Aloha,Kim