Gil Carandang two day workshop in November

[Eric Weinert]

Gil Carandang is “the” expert in using the Cho Natural Gardening methods on tropical crops in the Philippines.  We are arranging to have him visit Hawaii and give a two day (eight hours per day) workshop at the University Farm in Panaewa. 

 

Dates:   Sat & Sun, November 7^th and 8^th.

Cost:      $200 per person

Limit:     First 40 persons to pay and register

 

We are still waiting for his visas to be processed, but we expect this will happen.  This is a hands on, how to do it workshop.  We are keeping the seating limited so that the participants have a personalized learning experience.

 

Contact Drake (dra...@gmail.com) or Randy (ra...@whshipman.com )to reserve your place.

 

Eric Weinert
VP Hawaii Pride

16-664 Milo St., Keaau, HI 96749
808-982-8880 ext 12   fax 982-8881
er...@calavo.com

 

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[Eric Weinert Sr.]

Here is an earlier post by Mary Lorenz several months back introducing
Mr. Gil Carandang. Please feel free to look up the links.

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


Mary L. Lorenz


Great Exportations Hawaii


P.O. Box 1345


Pahoa, Hawaii 96778


808-965-8327

[Eric Weinert Sr.]

More information on Gil Carandang:

Gil Carandang's Short Resume

Gil A. Carandang is a full-time farmer, Fulbright scholar, and
passionate advocate for empowering farmers to harness the indigenous
life of the soil right on their farms. Gil is an extremely engaging,
fun, and empowering teacher. He is a graduate of the Apprenticeship
program on Ecological Horticulture, University of California Santa
Cruz. He is also the owner of Herbana Farms and an Organic
Certification Center of the Philippines (OCCP) inspector. Gil studied
under John Jeavons of Ecology Action in Mid Peninsula, Willits,
California on Sustainable Biointensive Mini-Farming. He also studied
under Dr. Han Kyu Cho of Korean Natural Farming Association on Natural
Farming Systems for Crops and Livestocks. He was an apprentice with
Natural Farmers of Japan as well as at the Center for Agroecology and
Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) of the University of California Santa
Cruz in the field of Ecological Horticulture. He attended workshop on
Biodynamics preparations with Biodynamics Association of Northern
California and Permaculture Design Course with the Center for Natural
Design, Los Osos, California.

He extensively lectured on Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms both
in the Philippines and the United States.. He brings the technology of
using indigenous microorganisms as another tool for farming
sustainably.

Gil is a member of the Organic Producers Trade Association of the
Philippines and the International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movement .

On Oct 1, 10:06 am, "Eric Weinert" <er...@Calavo.com> wrote: