Workshop Description
Soil is the building block to your garden and your local environment, it also plays an important role in climate action. And should look like chocolate cake…
Healthy soil stores carbon, lots of it. So building the soil food web beneath your feet can reduce your emissions, store carbon and help your home, garden, the local wildlife, your community adapt to a warming climate.
You will learn why the action of an individual is powerful and the simple ways to improve the soil in our garden to reduce your carbon footprint. This workshop introduce participants to the science of soil and regenerative gardening, and provide tips on how to protect and improve soil in an environmentally beneficial way, working with natural cycles, rather than against them.
Format
Can be delivered as an online webinar and a face to face workshop, in a 90 min session.
Topics Covered
- The role of a gardener in climate action
- What is soil, how it’s made and why it’s important.
- Different types of soil, the physical and chemical properties
- Introduction to the Soil-Food-Web (Soil microbes, fungi and soil bio-diversity)
- Regenerative Gardening, what it is and how it works
- Soil carbon – why it is so important.
- How healthy soil will help you, your garden and wider environment to adapt to climate change.