*FREE* - Reboot Your Soil 3 Day Workshop Series: 12 Nov, 3 Dec & 8 Dec
Come along and join us at Steinbrook Hall as Soil Land Food presents a 3 day boot camp - on Rebooting your Soil !!
This is a *Free* 3 day Workshop Series
If you're looking to:
• build your confidence in managing your soils
• improve soil health and fertility
• learn to make effective soil management decisions
• implement regenerative cropping or grazing
.then, this essential workshop series held over three days, will get you started!
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
Day 1 - (Saturday, 12 November 2022)
- 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 2022)
- 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 2022)
- 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
Bookings
To secure your spot at each workshop use the following links
Day 1 - Saturday 12 November 2022 (9:30am to 3:30pm)
https://www.stickytickets.com.au/dwocv
Day 2 – Saturday 3 December 2022 (9:30am to 3:30pm)
https://www.stickytickets.com.au/guusb
Day 3 - Thursday, 8 December 2022 (9:30am to 3:30pm)
https://www.stickytickets.com.au/ow3ng
Location
Steinbrook Hall, Billirimba Road, Steinbrook 2372
* Catering supplied
These Regenerative Agriculture workshops have been jointly funded by the Commonwealth and the New South Wales Governments under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.
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

