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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦

The City of Edmonton has declared today, March 21, as Save Soil Day. I was at City Hall for the presentation of the official proclamation, and to speak to the gathered group about our recent Senate report on soil health. Tomorrow, the Save Soil group hosts a free double-bill at Campus Saint-Jean theatre: first, the documentary film Common Ground, followed by a one-woman show by Dale Hamilton called She Won’t Come in From the Fields. #yeg #yegcc #Edmonton #SenateofCanada #ualberta #SoilHealth

Senator Simons, in a green blazer, purple scarf and N95 mask, stands with a group of soil advocates wearing bright green T-shirts that read Save our Soil, outside Edmonton City Council Chambers. In the middle of the group, a City clerk holds open a big blue folder with the soil health proclamation.
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A flyer promoting the free Friday night event in the McMahon Building Amphitheatre. The doors open at 7 pm with the presentation beginning at 7:30
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A big chocolate frosted sheet cake, decorated with icing balloons and the words Save Soil Day
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Soil samples on a display table in Edmonton City Hall’s foyer
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DoomsdaysCW

#DuarteCA #CommunityGarden to be developed at #TzeitelParasCaracciPark

March 12, 2025

"Duarte residents will soon have a new space to grow fresh produce, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the outdoors. Last month, the Duarte City Council approved the development of the Duarte Community Garden at Tzeitel Paras-Caracci Park (2701 Royal Oaks Drive).

"'This project exemplifies our dedication to creating #sustainable, #accessible spaces for our residents,' said Mayor Cesar A. Garcia. 'This garden will not only enhance the beauty of our park but also provide a space where our community can come together, learn, and share in the joy of nature. I am excited to see this project grow and look forward to it becoming a vibrant part of our community.'

"The goal of the Duarte Community Garden is to increase #FoodSovereignty by creating garden plots for community members to grow healthy food, cultivate agricultural literacy with educational programs, gather community by creating a welcoming and accessible garden space, and perform ecosystem services by removing grass, installing a sustainable #DripIrrigation system, building a #NativeHabitatGarden, and collecting #compost.

"The garden will feature 20 plots and two #ADAAccessible raised beds, available for rent at $5 per month. Community members can plant edible (excluding smokable) plants and flowers for personal, noncommercial use. It will include a storage shed with garden tools, an irrigation system promoting sustainable practices, and ADA-accessible decomposed granite pathways.

"The garden will be run in partnership with Food Exploration and Discovery (#FoodEd), a nonprofit organization that collaborates with San Gabriel Valley communities to create edible education sites and provide programs on #ecosystem #stewardship, healthy living, #environmental innovation, and entrepreneurship.

"Food Ed’s educational model will support gardeners of all skill levels, providing supplies and plants for beginners while experienced gardeners can use their own resources. The garden will also offer picnic benches for community #gatherings and host educational programs on topics like #VegetableGardening, #composting, #DroughtTolerant landscaping, and #SoilHealth.

"As the lead on this grant project, Food Ed will be responsible for building the #DuarteCommunityGarden. This includes overseeing site construction, collecting infrastructure bids, contractor management, program management, community engagement and workshops/events, processing plot holder applications, plant and soil replenishment, above ground irrigation repairs, developing the garden’s webpage and branding and overall garden management through October of 2026.

"For more information on the Duarte Community Garden, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at (626) 357-7931."

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heysocal.com/2025/03/12/duarte
#ThirdSpaces #SolarPunkSunday #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity #BuildingCommunity #California #SolarPunk #Composting

Hey SoCal. Change is our intention. · Duarte community garden to be developed at Tzeitel Paras-Caracci ParkDuarte residents will soon have a new space to grow fresh produce, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the outdoors. At its regular meeting...
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Certified MTP

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#SoilPulverizer#LandscapingTools#SoilHealth
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SierraPreta

Celebrating Two Years of Carbon Sequestration!

In just two years, Sierra Preta has produced 40m³ of of Biochar, durably sequestering 11.2 tons of CO₂ outside of our atmospheric cycle, and the current burning season is still going 🙌

Biochar production locks carbon into the soil for hundreds to thousands of years, playing a crucial role in mitigating climate change.

#CarbonSequestration#Biochar#ClimateAction
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SierraPreta

🌿 Enhance soil water retention with Biochar! 🌱💧

Biochar's porous structure holds moisture, reduces evaporation & keeps the land fertile. In regions facing drought Biochar enhances the soil’s ability to support plant life, slowing down soil degradation & restoring our ecosystems.

Research shows Biochar can increase soil water retention by up to 50%, making it a vital tool in the fight against desertification.

Read more in our Blog sierrapreta.lasalpujarras.onli

#biochar#waterretention#soilhealth
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Matthias C. Rillig

Just out:

Schaller et al.
The importance of reactive silica for maintaining soil health

#soil #soilhealth

link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkThe importance of reactive silica for maintaining soil health - Plant and SoilBackground and aim Soil health is vital for the sustainability of ecosystem services such as food and fiber production, nutrient cycling and water supply. Soil health can be assessed through a combination of physical, biological and chemical metrics. There is emerging evidence that reactive silica is a strong factor controlling soil functions. Scope We explain how reactive silica, specifically dissolved silicic acid and amorphous silica, can be used as a new metric for assessing soil health, complementing traditional metrics or even substituting for them. Conclusion The pivotal role of reactive silica for soil health is particularly important under stress conditions that are typically associated with drought and soil degradation. The status of reactive silica indicates soil degradation earlier than the currently used metrics, because reactive silica depletion is followed by soil degradation. We recommend suitable methods and benchmarks for assessing reactive silica. Furthermore, we suggest further research to improve our understanding of the importance of reactive silica for soil health. We call upon the soil research community to include reactive silica as a metric for soil health assessment.
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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦

Senator Rob Black will be in Edmonton this week to deliver the annual Bentley Lecture in Sustainable Agriculture this Wednesday. Rob, who until prorogation chaired the Senate’s agriculture committee, was the guiding force behind our major study of soil health in Canada. He’ll be speaking (mostly) about our report. The lecture, at the Westin, is free and open to the public. Rob is a peach of a guy! Delighted to welcome him to #yeg. ualberta.ca/en/renewable-resou #ualberta #Edmonton #SoilHealth #cdnpoli

www.ualberta.caBentley Lecture in Sustainable Agriculture | Renewable Resources
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Petra van Cronenburg

@jmcrookston Thanks for all the links in your thread. Yes, #soilHealth and the #biodiversity of #soilLife is very important, as the re-discovery of ancient varieties of #vegetables and #fruits.

There's another factor: transport & season.
My grandparents didn't know oranges yet. But they knew how to get these vitamines from native regional, seasonal plants. They ate green cabbages, bell peppers, onions and potatoes for vitamine C, in summer black currants, strawberries, and cherries etc.

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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦

On NYE, as I look back at 2024, I want to share three Senate reports, of which I am quite proud. The first is Critical Ground, the major two-year study carried out by the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - a comprehensive look at soil health in Canada & a call to action to protect our farm soil & native grasslands, not just for food production, but for climate change mitigation. sencanada.ca/en/info-page/parl #SenateofCanada #soil #soilhealth #climatechange #soilorganiccarbon

SenCanadaCritical Ground: Why Soil is Essential to Canada's Economic, Environmental, Human, and Social HealthThe report digs deep into the critical role of soil in mitigating climate change, contributing to biodiversity and putting food on tables.
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The Global Plant Council

Agricultural plastic pollution reduces soil function

A new study reveals that plastic, even under best practices, contaminates soils with macro- and microplastics, harming critical soil functions. Sampling 12 California farms, researchers found significant plastic debris. To protect soil health and productivity, biodegradable alternatives to plastic mulch are urgently needed.

globalplantcouncil.org/agricul #PlantScience #PlantSci #Science #Plants #SoilHealth #Soil #Agriculture

Image: Strawberries planted into mulched beds. Credit: Seeta Sistla
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Broadfork

I’ve done a couple of soil texture tests on the new plot. I was pre-warned about having clay soil and it’s not at all which shows it’s good to test (details in the alt text).

One bed is a silt loam and a sandy loam in another so I already know this is where next year’s carrots are going.

I’ll do one more test of the most recently cleared bed where the previous plot holder had their greenhouse. I’m expecting that to be a loam, it’s wonderfully friable.
#SoilHealth #Soil #Gardening #Allotment

A glass jar with a profile of a soil sample. The top layer is the rainwater level. It has organic matter floating on the top surface. The next layer of clay is light brown in colour. The next layer is a darker brown silt layer and the bottom layer is the larger particles of sand. By measuring the depth of each layer it comes out as 53% sand, 28% silt, 19% clay. Using a soil texture chart for comparison this is a sandy loam. The soil sample is collected from a selection of the top 15 cms of soil and is dried for 24 hours before being crushed and added to a jar. Rainwater is added and the contents are shaken well and then allowed to settle. The sand layer settles within minutes, the silt within an hour and the clay within 24 hours.
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Arne

5th December, World Soil Day.

The hectare of arable land behind our house is waterlogged again.
Years of maize production for "biogas" have degraded the land so much, that it's full of moss, rushes, St. John's wort and saplings of bramble, alder and hawthorn.
The tenant didn't even bother to do anything with it this year, but one mulching cut in late autumn. Probably it's as fallow in the books to comply with EU environment regulation.

#Germany
#SoilHealth #WorldSoilDay #ClimateAction #NoDig

stubs of maize, mosses and st. John's wort in a field
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field with a large area covered in water
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OpenGeoHub Foundation

🌱 Registrations for the Soil Health Now! Conference are now open! 🌱 2025.ai4soilhealth.eu/#submit

🌲From April 8-10, 2025, we will be hosting the Soil Health Now conference, alongside workshops and discussion forums at the Wageningen International Conference Center (WICC). 🌿 The event will feature 12+ pan-European "Mission Soil" projects and 11+ distinguished keynote speakers.
🟠 #EO Data for Monitoring #SoilHealth
🟠 #SoilOrganicCarbon (SOC)
🟠 Tech/Tools demonstrations
🟠 Soil Health Indicators

2025.ai4soilhealth.euSoil Health Now - European Conference 8–10 April 2025, Wageningen International Conference Center (WICC), WageningenA 3-day international conference with keynotes, discussion forums, oral talks, workshops and demonstrations + fieldwork
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Broadfork

@rootsandcalluses Yes it’s the same stuff. Back in the day when I used to dig and dig because I knew no other way of gardening the mare’s tail was a thug.

It was everywhere but turns out no dig, weeding and using mulch, mulch and more mulch has virtually got rid of the lot.

This little bit came up in my greenhouse from the compacted soil the other side but look at those dreads! 😍 All that healthy soil hugging the roots.
#SoilHealth #NoDig #Gardening

Photograph from 18 months ago. A single mare’s tail or horse tail root on a wooden table top. It was weeded out of the ground there is soil sticking to the roots like dreadlocks. Good sign of healthy soil. Could be better but it could also be a lot worse.
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