MasterComposter.com presents SOIL -- SUPER SIMPLE!: Understanding HOW Compost Improves our Soil (4-week Online Course with Teleconferences) cost: No Cost to Community members || prerequisites: have telephone (optional) and Internet access, Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or later || course length: 4 weeks || instructor-led: yes || limited class size: yes Instructor: Mary Tynes REGISTER TODAY! We have all heard many benefits attributed to compost, such as: Improves drainage Improves water retention Improves water absorption Makes more nutrients available to plants, even those in fertilizers Makes soil water more available to plant roots Changes the structure of the soil Balances pH of soil and more. Have you ever wondered if anyone could back up these claims? Are they true? Have you ever heard a step-by-step explanation of HOW compost provides these benefits? Now you can discover the details of how compost works to improve soil. The SOIL -- SUPER SIMPLE! course provides easily-understood explanations as to how compost changes the structural and chemical quality of soil. Do you have soil with a high content of clay? Of sand? Would you like to know how to improve these soils? The course presents detailed discussions on challenges provided by these soil types and how to address those challenges. This basic level course requires no prerequisite knowledge of soil or soil science. Everything you need to know will be explained to you in easy-to-understand terms and illustrations. Practical activities will give you a hands-on perspective. Whether you have clay, sand, or loam -- or don't even know the difference -- REGISTER TODAY! Master Composter Instructors! Have you ever felt silly claiming compost could do things you're not really sure it can do? Has a student ever asked you directly HOW compost can make soil water more available to plant roots or HOW compost improves soil retention, and the best answer you could give was "I'm not really sure, but it does" Gain confidence in your understanding of compost as a soil amendment and your ability to explain it to others. Sign up for SOIL -- SUPER SIMPLE! today! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! What is a Online Course with Teleconferences? This educational course is offered online via the Community section of our web site, with weekly conference calls for discussion and Q&A. Students access a new lesson every week for 4 weeks. Read the lessons and experiment with step-by-step activities at your convenience. If you don't understand something in the lesson or have trouble with activities, join the weekly teleconference and get clarification! Questions, comments, feedback, and discussion are handled through weekly conference calls with students. Learn from a Master! Master Composter and Master Composter Instructor Mary Tynes will be leading the teleconferences for this course. Mary founded www.mastercomposter.com. She has a well-established reputation for taking complex subjects and breaking them down into easily-understood explanations. No prior knowledge of soil structure or chemistry is required for this beginner course. Everything will be explained to you within the course itself. REGISTER TODAY! Why do I have to have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0? The lessons are in pdf file format, and the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to open the file for reading. This software is free. The current version of Adobe Reader is 9.1, so if you've ever had the software, you have a new enough version. It is probably on your computer already, it comes installed on most computers. To test to see if you have it, click here. Download the file to your computer and click on it to open it. If you have the software installed, an eBook excerpt will open and you are set! If the file doesn't open, download the software from here.