Master Composter training program

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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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