It’s The Soil That COUNTS SERIES (includes both Foundation and
Master Class Workshops)
Soil microbes are essential to healthy soil and healthy soil is
essential to healthy plants – this is the International Year of
Plant Health. Let us build your knowledge and skills to understand how
microbes build soil, so you can reduce water requirements, provide
plant nutrients, protect our environment and break down toxins with
these naturally occurring little workers. These interactive workshops
will get you much more closely acquainted with our wonderful living
soil whether it is on a town block, or acreage and are suitable for
individuals, professional development, and as an introduction for
commercial purposes.
The ‘It’s the Soil that Counts’ series comprises two workshops
– the first provides foundational skills and knowledge of soil food
webs and using brightfield microscopes. This, the second will build on
the knowledge and skills from the first to monitor and manage soil
biological health. The topics to be covered are outlined below.
Master Class (Sunday 9am to 4pm)
Review and extend knowledge of soil food webs
Review and extend knowledge of micro-organisms
Micro-organisms and plant succession
Micro-organisms in the carbon and nitrogen cycles
Monitoring soil biological health
Remediation strategies
By the end of the Master Class you will have extended your knowledge
of how the soil food web works, practised organism identification,
learnt how to assess the qualitative health of soil and be able to put
in place remediation strategies based on what has been learnt.
In addition to being named as a finalist in the Science Communicator
of the Year in Peel, and Peel ESTEAM (entrepreneurship, science,
technology, engineering, arts and maths) Champion, EarthWhile
Australia has done podcasts with Deryn Thorpe of All the Dirt, and
Sabrina Hahn’s Dirty Deeds. They have been guests on the Roots and
Shoots ABC radio show and Curtin FM’s gardening show. "We feel
privileged to have our work acknowledged by a range of academics,
sustainability ‘experts’, ecologists and the people who have
participated in our presentations and workshops and look forward to
sharing our knowledge and skills on the topic of soil food webs with
you."
Please contact us with any questions you may have.
music
85
Views
21/06/2020 Last update