Join Soil Land Food and Granite Borders Landcare at our second workshop in this series:....

Reboot Your Soils is a Free 3 day Workshop Series

These workshops will:
• build your confidence in managing your soils
• provide you with knowledge to improve soil health and fertility
• teach you to make effective soil management decisions
• help you implement regenerative cropping or grazing techniques

You will learn:

• how to manage soils as a system
• how to read a soil test effectively
• how to assess soils in the field and use soil tests• how to make effective soil health decisions

DO ONE WORKSHOP OR ALL THREE TO GAIN MAXIMUM BENEFIT

Day 1 - (Saturday, 12 November)

A Day in the Life of the Soil

• Fundamentals of soil function
• Identify your soil types
  - bring along a sample of your own soil - a 20cm x 20cm x 20cm soil cube with grass/pasture/vegetation on top
• Match your enterprise to your soil type
• Learn to take a soil sample

Day 2 - (Saturday,  3 December)

• Use your soil test
• Assess your soil’s health
• Identify soil constraints
• Set benchmarks for your soil health
• Investigate what’s in your soil test
• Hands-on skills-building to assess your soil health

Day 3 - (Thursday, 8 December)

• Assess overall soil fertility
• Manage your soil fertility
• Optimise the soil’s nutrient cycling capacity
• Estimate the key nutrient availability
• Learn to increase nutrient availability
• Monitor soil fertility

A little about Soil Land Food 's facilitator for this workshop:

Kristy Youman - Farming Systems Extension Specialist. Kristy has over 10 years of experience in the environmental science and agricultural field working in a wide variety of roles across Australia for government, non-profit and private organisations. Kristy conducts a number of the soil and grazing extension projects for Soil Land Food. She has previously worked in extension and research with a range of agencies, community groups and landholders. Prior to that she travelled and worked around Australia on pastoral properties. She runs a mixed farming property with her partner at Guyra in the New England.

• Bachelor of Natural Resource Management (Honours) (University of New England)
• Fertcare Accredited agronomist
• Fertcare Level C