Soil Health workshops

We loved seeing cane growers, banana farmers, graziers, tropical fruit producers and forestry come together for our free soil health workshops led by Simon Mattsson from Soil Land Food.

From examining soil cubes and understanding soil biology to unpacking the carbon and nitrogen cycles – these workshops were all about building the foundations for soil health improvements in the paddock.

Simon is also a farmer and he talked about his own transition from “very conventional sugar cane farming” to regenerative farming with as much focus on what’s happening below the soil’s surface as the crops growing above it. His experiences sparked plenty of discussions.

These workshops, in Tully, Mossman and the Tablelands, followed on from years of ‘Digging Deeper’ soil health sessions. It was great to see new faces and familiar faces. The growing momentum around soil health across the Wet Tropics is both encouraging and exciting.

The workshops were part of Terrain NRM’s Climate Smart Farming in the Wet Tropics project. This project is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Natural Heritage Trust under the Climate Smart Agriculture program.