Monitoring Soil Health
Building community around monitoring soil health
Farms with better soil health and landscape function are better able to adapt to weather and market variability, and are more resilient and lower risk.
Soils for Life supports farmers to learn more about soil health by measuring and monitoring it on their own property, sharing their experience, learning from other farmers, and using this information to make more informed decisions.
Join our soil health monitoring community!
Join this easy going discussion group where you can share your soil monitoring results with other farmers and specialists. We discuss challenges, interpretting results, tips and easy soil monitoring methods!
Get started
Get to know your soils better and start measuring your soil health with these simple, low cost methods you can do yourself.
Download these five easy to follow guides to start your soil monitoring.
“It doesn’t have to be perfect, but doing something is better than doing nothing … just do something because you’ll learn something” – Dee Wilkes-Bowes.
Join the Soil Health Monitoring Community
Join the Soil Health Monitoring Community on Facebook to ask questions and share pictures and insights with other interested farmers.
Start monitoring
Follow our simple guides and carry out five soil health assessments in at least one spot on your farm. It should take less than an afternoon.
Take photos
As you do the assessments, take pictures with your phone to record the results.
Share & discuss
Share the pictures and your observations in a private Facebook group to get feedback from other farmers and the Soils for Life team.
Join a webinar
After each challenge fortnight we will run a webinar with David Hardwick from Soil Land Food to discuss results and answer questions.
Soil health learning events and resources
Resources
Check back as we add more great resources from other organisations.
Events
Dig deeper into soil health and soil monitoring by catching up on one of our soil monitoring webinars and coaching sessions, or joining an upcoming event. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to hear about future events.
More information
For any further queries or more information about the challenge get in touch at [email protected]