Soil Health Project:
We have recruited a group of local farmers to participate in our pilot project to monitor soil carbon levels and water infiltration.
Next Steps...
Join our pilot project in Erin and the surrounding area, or begin your own chapter of the Soil Health Coalition in your area~
Do you want to be a Citizen Scientist?
The Soil Health Coalition of Erin is now recruiting Citizen Scientists who would like to volunteer to be trained and to measure soil and water parameters on local farms.
Contact Us
"I'm really impressed to see the number of people from such diverse agricultural backgrounds coming together to share ideas, and discuss what they can do, to improve soil health"
-Alan Kruszel, Soil Conservation Council of Canada (SCCC)
"My favourite part of the project is the incorporation of biochar on my farm. I am really excited about biochar!"
-Nancy Urekar
"Soil Health Coalition growing knowledge"
-Owen Goltz
"We loved the water infiltration demonstration at the 'Our Common Ground' event"
-Avery Goltz & Ashley Stanton
"Planting cover crops is a must!"
-Gary Mountain
"The combination of innovative soil testing to give us good data, and the opportunity to share ideas, challenges, and learnings, with other farmers in our community has such exciting potential"
-Val Steinmann
"It's great to see a community-led approach to valuing soil health. It's a nice contrast to profit-driven industrial agriculture"
"I am excited about doing cover crops better"
" So, it's a pretty big deal that Erin is now going to be making its mark as a healthy soil community"
"Soil health is one of the most underappreciated issues we have as a civilization; this group is committed to reversing the damage done over the last few generations" 
“Thank you so much for leading this amazing Soil Health Coalition initiative. I am very excited about the opportunity to connect this project in some way to the local schools and perhaps providing opportunities for students to be Citizen Scientists”
"This project seems to be a culmination of the efforts over the past several years, and this will create a concrete process to get a snap-shot of soil in the area, and to educate the people about soil issues"
"We're starting to change the soil, one farm at a time, with the help of citizen scientists"