My Healthy Soil Project

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

Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink!

Vision

Transition Town Vincent’s 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 available organics (e.g. biochar, compost, worm castings/juice and microbes) to improve the carbon, nutrients and water holding capacity of your soil.

This project is a pilot to evaluate the potential for residents to increase soil organic carbon (SOC), while providing other

benefits such as recycling organic waste, improving soil and plant health, improving water use efficiency and increasing vegetation cover.

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

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