Is your soil ready for winter?

Learn how to assess soil structure and health using in-field tools and your five senses

Lunch provided if you RSVP!

Please bring a handful of soil with you  (preferably dried)

Good soil structure is essential to healthy, productive soil.  Aggregate stability and infiltration tell us a lot about soil structure—especially erosion resistance, water storage capacity, root growth, and soil productivity. Using a simple in-field test, you can evaluate the condition of soil aggregates. Bring a handful of soil to see how it does, or better yet, bring multiples to compare soils.

In this workshop, we will:

• Assess aggregate stability using slake and slump tests of soils from different management practices with Kabir Zahangir, Regional Soil Health Specialist, NRCS
• Conduct aggregate stability tests with your soil (All)
• Demonstrate soil infiltration with Kabir Zahangir
• Share regional benchmarks for soil health (Margaret Lloyd and Lindsey Kelley, UCCE)
• Hear from growers Scott Park (Park Organic Farming) and Andrew Brait (Full Belly Farm) on how they assess soil health on their farm.

Questions?  Contact Margaret Lloyd, UCCE Small Farms Advisor, 530-564-8642

This workshop is organized in association with the Organic Growers Think Tank of Yolo/Solano/Sacramento Counties