Join us at the Community Soil Lab at Cottonwood Urban Farm for our monthly Lab Lesson! The Community Soil Lab is a space for community members to learn about soil health through a whole ecosystem perspective integrating biology, chemistry, physical properties, and community knowledge 🪱🧪🥼🌱

Every second Saturday of the month, we offer opportunities to learn about soil health in our soil lab built in a shipping container on an urban farm! Our Community Soil Lab can learn about our local soils through tests including water properties (moisture content, water holding capacity), pH, electrical conductivity, NPK, and Fungi: Bacteria (F:B) ratios.

This month’s topic will be…Electrical Conductivity (EC). The EC of your soil or compost is related to both salt content and fertility. We will talk about how this impacts your soil health and garden health, how to interpret EC readings, what to do about saline soil, and demonstrate our EC meter. Bring your soil or compost samples to get an EC test!

RSVP is required