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Curriculum
Getting to Know Your Soil
This module teaches learners to use their senses and observations to assess soil, identify issues, improve soil health, and understand how field variability affects crop growth.
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Activity 1: Digging a Soil Pit
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Activity 2: Detecting Hard Pans In the Field
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Activity 3: What is the Soil's Texture?
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Activity 4: Identifying Soil Type
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Activity 5: Where is the Organic Matter? Let's Look at Soil Aggregates​​
How Can You Improve Soil Health?
This module helps learners understand soil testing, practice sampling with a lab of their choice, select activities to address soil improvement goals, and determine necessary soil inputs.
Participant Handouts:
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Activity 1: Testing Your Soil for Nutrients
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Activity 2: Selecting a Soil Lab
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Activity 3: Understanding Your Soil Test
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Activity 4: Planning for Soil Inputs: Fertilizer and Compost
Plan to Improve Your Soil
This module guides learners in applying soil health principles by considering environmental and farm-specific needs, building knowledge through soil health assessments, and gaining confidence to develop their own soil management plans.
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Activity 1: Assessing a Field’s Soil Health
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Activity 2: Building a Soil Health Plan
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Activity 3: Financing Soil Health Practices
Designing a Crop Rotation Plan
A crop rotation plan maps out what to grow each year to improve soil and crop health. Tracking pests, diseases, and plant health helps refine future planning, allowing farmers to adjust based on past challenges and successes.
Participant Handouts:
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Activity 1: Collecting Information to Build Your Farm Plan
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Activity 2: Making a Farm Map of Fields
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Activity 3: Designing Crop Rotation Plan
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Activity 4: Including Cover Crops in Your Crop Rotation Plan