Lesson Objectives
- Increase awareness of a breadth of topics related to soil health, including amending soils with compost, cover cropping, agricultural soil health practices, soil contamination issues, and soils for trees.
Continuing Education hours
Video lecture: 0.5 hours
Lecture
- Shannon Plunkett, Graduate Student, UW-Madison Dept. of Soil Science
- Soil Lead video
- Note: Video is ~9 minutes long.
Extra Resources
- Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils, EPA
- Soil Contaminants in a Community Gardens
- Raised Beds
- Safety in the Little Gardener’s Garden
- WATCH Intro to Soil Contaminants [2013 MG training]
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