Building Healthy Soils: The Benefits to Your Farm

This workshop is designed to benefit farmers who grow vegetables, fruit and field crops, as well as grass-based livestock operations. ”Building Healthy Soils on Your Farm” will focus on the continued capacity of the soil to function as a vital living system that sustains plant, animal and human health.

Soil Health experts Ray Archuleta – a.k.a. Ray The Soil Guy – and David Lamm from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s National Soil Health Team in Greensboro, North Carolina, as well as Tom Akin, NRCS Massachusetts Conservation Agronomist and Ruth Hazzard of the UMass Extension Vegetable Team will cover the economics of soil health, the benefits of deep zone tillage, and cover crops for soil health. The day will include hands-on demonstrations, classroom presentations and field exercises.

See full agenda here.

Registration fee is $20 per person (includes lunch). Send your name, address, phone and e-mail address with a check payable to UMass to Doreen York, UMass, Bowditch Hall, Amherst MA 01003.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, UMass Extension, and Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE).