Citizen Science: Living Soils, Growing Food Certificate
Short course
In Dundee
Description
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Type
Short course
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Level
Intermediate
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Location
Dundee (Scotland)
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Duration
2 Weeks
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Start date
September
Use regenerative growing practices in your own garden. Soil loss and degradation are serious issues all over the world. We need to find effective regenerative practices to solve many local and global environmental challenges.
On this course, you'll discover interesting things about your own soil and become part of the new GROW Citizen Observatory European-wide community. You'll explore key approaches to food growing that can help improve soil degradation and regenerate soils and ecosystems. You'll identify regenerative practices that you could use in your own growing site, and design a robust research experiment to evaluate them.
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About this course
This course has been created for anyone interested in the environment. You don’t need any special experience but it might be of interest to small farmers, community and urban growers, gardeners, land managers and allotment growers, and teachers in environment-related subjects.
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Subjects
- Citizen science
- Observatory
- Food growers
- Dig
- Crops
- Creating
- Cover crops
- Health
- Soil
- Healthcare
- Health Disorders
- Health Datasets
- Health Promotion
Course programme
What topics will you cover?
- Citizen Science and Fieldwork
- The GROW Observatory
- Regenerative practices for food growers - exploring the effectiveness of approaches like mulching, no dig, cover crops, creating wildlife friendly areas and more
- Designing a robust research experiment to investigate the effectiveness of regenerative practices
- Finding a three-sisters crop combination (polycultures) to improve the productivity of your plot and the health of your soil
Citizen Science: Living Soils, Growing Food Certificate