Rewilding Soils with Microbes

ReForest London is a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to partnering with our community to enhance environmental and human health in the Forest City, through the benefits of trees.ReForest London and the City of London are founding Partners in the Million Tree Challenge, an initiative to plant one million more trees in London for a greener, healthier future and to keep the forest in the Forest City.

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Join this webinar, an educational presentation about restoring soil health in our own backyards.

Solutions at Scale Virtual Education  Series

Discussions with leading arborists, environmentalists, and academics set this regional, solutions-based, education series apart! This collaborative series, running from February to May, will answer our most pressing urban greenspace questions.

Rewilding Soils with MicrobesRewilding soils entails returning native, diverse, and resilient soil microorganisms to areas where they have been destroyed. Under the microscope I can diagnose that most urban soils lack a complete soil foodweb, which means the soil is unable to cycle nutrients, decompose organic matter, and build soil structure on it’s own. As such, many gardeners, farmers and arborists have turned to artificial means of boosting nutrients and controlling their growing environment. The use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides further destroys the delicate soil microbes, resulting in a dependency on more chemicals. This cycle can be broken, but it takes work. It involves using overlapping principles of permaculture, including fostering an environment that is conducive to soil microbes, and at times inoculating soils with soil microbes.In this presentation I will explore options for restoring soils naturally. I will discuss the pros and cons of various soil amendments including: compost, compost teas, compost extracts, mycorrhizal inoculants, and other shelf-stable “bugs in a jug”. I will teach you how to distinguish what is “snake oil” and help you design a program for your landscape that will really work. My goal is to make working with compost and liquid biological amendments successful and accessible to everyone.

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