My Healthy Soil Project

Ian KininmonthBackyard Natives, Climate change, Community gardens, Food, Natural environment, Water

Vision

Transition Town Vincent’s (TTV) My Healthy Soils Project aims to empower local residents to transform their yards and courtyards to capture carbon into the soil to support plant growth to create a cooler, healthier and more sustainable environment.

We focus on supporting the addition of locally sourced organics (e.g. biochar, compost, worm castings/juice and microbes) to improve the carbon, nutrients and water holding capacity of your soil.

Click here to read the info sheet. Click here to find out more about soil organic carbon in the urban area.

Project News

Forum – Transforming the City into a Carbon Sink – A Regenerative Urbanism Approach

Join us on Thursday 1st May 2025 for this combined forum, field walk and discussion which aims to raise awareness and facilitate discussion around the concept of using a circular approach across Perth to transform urban food and woody waste into carbon rich products such as compost and biochar and sinking this back into urban sand to improve soil, water and vegetation management while improving liveability and sustainability. Find out more and register here. 

Workshop – Biochar for Urban Soil, Water and Vegetation Management

Join international biochar expert, Professor Stephen Joseph, in this interactive workshop on Wednesday 30th April 2025 to learn about:

  • What is biochar: its features and benefits.
  • Ways to make biochar.
  • How to activate biochar.
  • How to use biochar in the urban environment to address soil, water and vegetation management issues.

The workshop will include demonstration of different methods for making biochar in the urban environment. Find out more and register here.

In the UWA Agriculture News 

TTV’s Community Food Forest and surrounding circularity hub at Britannia Reserve is being recognised as a focus for innovation, especially in relation to urban soil, water and vegetation management and associated climate change adaptation. See the attached article in the UWA Institute of Agriculture news about our adaptation of the concept of biochar permeable reactive barriers, which we call biochar wells or trenches.

Workshop: Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink

We hosted a very successful workshop: Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink in Leederville on Sunday afternoon 16th March attended by around 35 residents. Click here to access the workshop proceedings including slides.

Get involved

There are a number of ways to be involved:

  • Attend one of our events. These will include seminars and workshops on a variety of topics including:
    • Healthy soils are living soils
    • Biochar, char, char
    • Composting
    • Worm farming
    • Microbes
  • Join our steering group.
  • Volunteer at the Potting Shed
  • Volunteer at the Food Forest

Or get involved with the Black Cockatoo Forest Restoration project.

We are also developing a range of information products including specific pages about:

You can check out our Facebook page (subject to approval to join) or our Youtube channel.

To get involved contact Ian Kininmonth E: ian.kininmonth@ttv.org.au