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Soil Health Foundation

Read your soil like a pro!

Do You Ever Find Yourself Asking These Questions?

How can I measure soil health? What are my underground livestock and how do I feed them? Is my water quality suitable for my animals and farming/ranching needs? How do I know if my soil is compacted? What does a healthy soil look, smell and feel like? Are my weeds trying to tell me something? How can I get rid of my weeds without using poisons?

When growing foods, it can seem easier to reach for a bag, or enlist the advice from others.

Put the power back into your hands!

" Without measurement, there is no management."

With increasing climatic pressures, building resilient, healthy systems is critical. The key to healthy soil and production lies in being able to read and assess your own resources and know that you're on the track to regeneration.

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When it comes to assessing soil health and where to start on your journey, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Learning has never been so easy with our casual yet informative teaching style.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to Soil Health Foundations with Nicole Masters
2. Disclaimer
3. Welcome to Soil Health Foundations
  FREE PREVIEW
4. Topics Covered
5. Getting the most from your course
6. Essential Materials & Equipment
7. Optional site to source materials
8. Background on your tutor Nicole Masters
1. Paradigms, Mindsets and Goals
2. Student Handout-Paradigms Mindsets Goals
3. How do paradigms shape the way we see the world?
4. Goal setting
1. Natural Soil Building Processes
2. Biomes
3. The influence of latitude
4. Water and biomes
5. Student Handout-Natural Soil Building Processes
1. Human influences on soil
2. Student Handout-Human Influences on Soil
3. Soil Losses
1. The triage of Enabling Factors
2. Student Handout-Triage of Enabling Factors
3. Refractometer Instructions
4. Refractometer additional considerations
5. Take your measurements
6. Brix and minerals
1. Soil Carbon
2. Digging into your soil carbon
3. Student Handout-Soil Carbon
4. Carbon breakdown
1. Mycorrhizae and the Rhizosheath
2. Student Handout-Mycorrhizae and the Rhizosheath
3. Mycorrhizae and Rhizosheaths
1. Chapter Seven has moved! Don't Panic!
1. Just Breathe
2. Student Handout-Airflow
3. What causes compaction?
4. Are your soils breathing?
1. Whole Catchment water cycles
2. Student Handout-Water Cycles
3. Water Quality Testing Tool
4. Water sources and testing
5. Rehydrating landscapes
1. Infiltration
2. Student Handout-Water Infiltration
3. INFILTRATION TEST INSTRUCTIONS
4. Catching every drop
5. Infiltration tests
1. Assessing Soil Health
2. Student Handout-Assessing Soil Health
3. Scoring soil health
4. Score your soil health
5. Soil Health Results
1. Viruses and Bacteria
2. Viruses and Bacteria
3. Fungi
4. Fungal life
5. Protists and Nematodes
6. Protists and Nematodes
7. Student Handout-Underground Workforce A
8. The Earthmovers
9. Insect benefits
10. Make your own Berlese Funnel
11. Count on your bugs!
1. Weeds as indicators
2. Student Handout-Weeds as Indicators
3. What are weeds trying to tell you?
1. Monitoring
2. Student Handout-Monitoring
3. Setting up a transect
4. Monitoring
1. Bringing it all together
2. Student Handout-Bringing It All Together
3. Integrity Soils Resources
4. Resources

About this course

$290.00
75 lessons
2 hours of video content

Over the past few decades (and hundreds of workshops later), we've developed a range of methods to support your learning around the factors involved in building soil health.

Soil Health Foundation

Do You Ever Find Yourself Asking These Questions?

When growing foods, it can seem easier to reach for a bag, or enlist the advice from others.

" Without measurement, there is no management."

Course curriculum

Introduction

Module One: Paradigms, Mindsets and Goals

Module Two: Natural Soil Building Processes

Module Three: Human civilizations influence on soil

Module Four: The Triage of Enabling Factors

Module Five: Soil Carbon

Module Six: Mycorrhizae and the Rhizosheath

Chapter Seven has moved! Don't Panic!

Module Eight: Why is airflow important?

Module Nine A: Water Cycles

Module Nine B: Is Your Water Effective?

Module Seven: Assessing Soil Health

Module Ten: The Underground Workforce

Module Eleven: Weeds as Indicators

Module Twelve: Monitoring

Final Summary

About this course

Over the past few decades (and hundreds of workshops later), we've developed a range of methods to support your learning around the factors involved in building soil health.