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Amaranth Co-operative Enterprises Ltd. PO Box 448 Wolfville, NS B0P 1X0 1-902-542-4002 ( fax & voice ) jcline@glinx.com A Worker Owned Co-operative Since 1995 September 9, 1998 Notice: Master Composter Training Program Hello, > > We trained 4 Master Composters in the Fall of 1997. Those individuals are > now employed as a municipal Waste Co-ordinator, a Waste Management Officer > for the Clover Group, an operator of a yard and leaf windrow operation for > a municipality and an employee for a centralized composting company. > > Who typically holds the designation as a Master Composter in North America > and more recently in Portugal? They are Environmental Engineers, > composting facility operators, teachers, academics, municipal > Waste-resource Management Co-ordinators, farmers, unions' > environmental staff, topsoil specialists, students, landscapers, > environmental NGO staff and private citizens. > > As a Master Composter you will be capable of planning, designing, > implementing and operating backyard and centralized composting programs. > > Our training staff consists of Nova Scotians with extensive experience as > composting facility operators, educators for backyard programmes and > centralized composting operations, a microbiologist , an environmental > program planner, designer, and evaluator, a Soil Scientist and trainers who > deliver associated skills related to communication and social marketing. > Here are several examples of our training staff. > > John Cline, a Master Composter, just returned from Portugal after training > that countries first class of Master Composters. He also conducted a > seminar on backyard composting and centralized composting technologies to > engineers, composting facility operators, teachers, academics, farmers, > landscapers and environmentalists. John's experience is 8 years as a > Master Composter and has trained 127 Master Composters. He is the operator > of Nova Scotia's first windrow composting facility that processes farm > organics with community organics. > > Our lead Windrow Operator and Soil Scientist is Walter Termeer (P. Ag. CAC) > of Fundy Compost Unlimited. Walter has the first permit in Nova Scotia to > compost biosolids with livestock organics and commercial food waste. He > was an instructor in this course in 1997 and conducts ongoing research with > AFFC. > > Dr. Perry Johnson-Green, a microbiologist Professor at Acadia University, > provides our training about the Ecology, Chemistry and Biology of > composting. He is also a backyard composting workshop trainer and a Master > Composter. > > Professor Janet McClain is an environmental planner, trainer and evaluator. > She teaches Sociology, Public Administration and Political Science with > emphasis on research, program design and evaluation. She is currently a > Professor of Sociology at Dalhousie University and Acadia University. Jan > also teaches composting workshops. > > This year we are conducting an enhanced training program for Master > Composter designation. It is 24 hours of classroom related instruction. > We have expanded our session on centralized composting with emphasis for > Windrow operations as well as enclosed technologies. After our formal > classroom instruction, students perform 24 hours of field practice related > to a participants job or a community service project. This is an intensive > course. > > The classroom training will be conducted this Fall October 16th, 17th and > 18th. Field practice projects are arraigned with each student and > monitored by instructors during the course. > > The cost is $625 per person includes texts, materials, field supervision, > evaluations and exams but not HST. We recommend several B&B and other > local accommodations close to the training site if you need overnight > facilities. Lunches and breaks will be provided by local caters. We will > have an outdoor barbecue with live music Saturday evening. > > If you need references from our graduates, we will be pleased to provide them. > > This is a non cancel course regardless of enrollment. We have currently > enrollment commitments from the private, public and government sector. > Course enrollment is limited to 15. > > Additional information on course content, instructors and materials are > available upon request. > > Please contact us by phone / fax at 1-902-542-4002 or by Email > (jcline@glinx.com) for registration and information. Please make cheques > payable to Amaranth Co-operative Enterprises Ltd. and register by October > 10th to allow for proper logistics. > > Best regards, > > > John Cline > Manager > > Amaranth And Associates & > Amaranth Co-operative Enterprises Ltd. > PO Box 448 > Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B0P 1X0 > 1-902-542-4002 ( Fax & Voice ) > Email: jcline@glinx.com > Homepage: http://www.glinx.com/users/jcline/ > Worker Owned > > Environmental Products, Education, Sustainable Development And Consulting > For A Conserver Society > > >
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