Improving Your Soils - Cultivations

Improving Your Soils -

Cultivations

A free interactive workshop with Nuffield Scholar David Gardner from IfA and Nim Kibbler of the University of Edinburgh, who together will be exploring the intimate nature of soils

• What do we do that's bad for our soils?
• Impacts of cultivations, machinery and animals on soil structure, drainage and biology
• What options do we have for improving soil management?
• Improving soil organic matter - why and how
• Measuriing and monitoring soil health
• Exploring our Soils
• • assessment of soil texture and structure

Lunch provided

Possible covered trailer tour of the Welbeck Estate afterwards, weather permitting. A map showing the location of The Lady Margaret Hall can be downloaded from here.