Soil Health for Urban Growers

Get started on your soil health journey to get the most out of your farm or garden!
Based on the “Community Resource Guide: Sustainable Healthy Soils in Alberta” by Sukhwinder Singh, research funded in part by AREF.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:14 What affects soil health?
1:49 Land and soil management principles
1:59 Soil armor
2:20 Minimum soil disturbance
2:48 Plant Diversity
3:11 Continual live plants/roots
3:26 Livestock integration
3:59 6C practices of soil health
4:31 Compaction reduction
5:48 Conservation tillage
8:29 Continuous living plants
9:33 Cover crops
11:11 Crop and animal diversity
12:08 Compost and organic amendments
13:46 Outro
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[@FaktaPetani]

Thank you for informing me about land

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

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[@iwanabana]

This is a lovely presentation!

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

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[@ThriveFitnessBoston]

Wow, so much information! Love it

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

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[@cresentiae]

Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

Thanks for watching!

[@AbbyThePiLL]

I'm not sure what's meant by "urban" when there's segments on compaction reduction, cover crops, and livestock integration(???).

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

Thanks for your comment! “Urban growers” is used in this guide to refer broadly to the concept of urban agriculture which has been defined as “the integration of agriculture within the economic, social and ecological system of urban areas.”
Small commercial farms and community-supported agriculture, community gardens, backyard gardens, rooftop gardening, vertical farming and other innovative approaches all fall within this category. Much of the information and tools in this guide may be more or less relevant depending on the type of urban agriculture. More information is available in the “Community Resource Guide” linked in the description.

[@agussuparno741]

How to maintain top soil to keep their moisture on sunny day long summer season ? And also recyle organic compost ? What the best organic compos ingredients

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

Thank you for your question! Here's an answer from Sukhwinder Singh:
"Thanks for the interesting questions. The maintenance of the moisture on the topsoil will depend on the state of the topsoil in terms of the availability and amount of cover crop. The moisture will be maintained automatically if the soil is densely covered with crops. If the crop is wide-rowed, you may need to cover the inter-row soil with crop residue or organic mulch. If the soil is bare/uncropped, you may need to keep it covered so that the soil moisture can be maintained for a longer period of time. It will not only retain soil moisture but also help suppress weeds and moderate temperature fluctuations. It enhances plant health and also helps maintain the integrity of the soil structure.
The best organic compost ingredients can be sawdust and bark mulch, rotted manure (both solid and liquid), farm waste (crop residue), food waste, and compost. You may also add inorganic amendments such as pumice, perlite, vermiculite, and sand."

[@agussuparno741]

@@albertalandinstitute9047 nice very helpful dear, i'am farm chilii/pepper with semi organic method only use a little bit synthetic fertilizer like potash and also phosphorus for increace root growth .. by the way are humic acid can be good combination for organic compost ? Or i give fulvic acid and then i spray to the leaf with amino acid from fish or chicken egg for better growth ? And also ideal PH soil for chilii plant ? I'm stay on tropical state and my soil is laterite

[@kevinaschim8475]

Remember that 90% of the organic carbon in compost will go to CO2. Of course the inorganic fraction will still be recovered. But soil biology creates 5 to 30 times more soil carbon than compost will. Feed the biology and you will heal your soil! And its still great to compost of course! Absolutely keep composting!

[@sekai_natural_farm]

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[@TheEmbrio]

13:06 lol Humus is not pronounced hummus

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

Oops! You're right, good catch. Composting does not make a bean dip!

[@elizabethmilward8301]

@@albertalandinstitute9047 Unless you use it to grow the chickpeas you plan to make hummus from.

[@kevinaschim8475]

But it grows great beans!@@albertalandinstitute9047

[@iwanabana]

@@albertalandinstitute9047 although...

[@roygreene2921]

This sounds a lot like someone reading from a book and not someone who actually does farming or gardening

[@albertalandinstitute9047]

Hi Roy! Thanks for your comment. All of the content put out by the institute is based on research from academics in the field. While a lot of the research involves conversations with people who work in agriculture, the reality is the researchers are generally not the ones putting these practices to use. You’re so right that it’s so important to continue to engage with the perspectives of farmers and gardeners to keep the conversation going. Thanks for your feedback!

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

It's a robot roy!!

[@va3svd]

@@dragoniousmaximus7304 That’s not fair. You can’t discredit a source just because it’s a robot.
But you CAN - and SHOULD - discredit it because it’s the government.