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This course includes:

  • 2 hours on-demand video
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Assignments
Lifestyle Other Lifestyle Farming

Introduction to Building Better Soils

Learn fundamental principles that guide soil health.
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (29 ratings)
217 students
Created by Mary Lucero
Last updated 7/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Understand the relationship between soil health, plant productivity, and nutrition.
  • Name the 5 soil components that make up a healthy soil.
  • Carry out qualitative, on site assessments of soil texture and structure.
  • Identify the 16 classic, and 18 contemporary mineral nutrients recognized as essential for plant health
  • Make practical decisions about when to run soil chemistry tests.
  • Understand why scarcity of a single nutrient may limit plant growth, even when other nutrients are abundant.
  • Reasons for measuring and managing soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) and pH
  • Why researchers are exploring soil redox chemistry as an indicator of soil health.

Requirements

  • Basic interest in growing plants (farming, gardening, etc.) or building soil for environmental restoration.

Description

Healthy soils are key to clean environments and nutrient dense food production. As such, healthy soils play key roles in the profitability of any farm, and the health and prosperity of any society.  

In this course, I will introduce basic principles about how soils work to clean the air and water around us, and to produce nutritious food. 

You will be shown the 5 key components of soil, and how each component influences overall soil health. 

You will learn how to assess soil texture, improve soil structure, and manage soil minerals, organic matter, and microbiology to ensure that soil quality and crop nutrition improve.

Who this course is for:

  • Farmers, Gardeners, and other Growers seeking to understand basic soil chemistry, biology, and health principles.
  • Farmers, Gardeners, and other Growers who want to optimize soil health in order to reduce the need for synthetic inputs.
  • Growers interested in maximizing production.
  • Students or entry level agricultural, horticultural, or natural resource professionals.
  • Science teachers seeking real life applications for basic soil ecology information.

Course content

7 sections • 25 lectures • 1h 53m total length

  • Preview02:21
  • Preview02:35
  • Examining Your Soil
    6 questions

  • Five Components of Soil
    00:49
  • Recognizing Mineral Components
    01:43
  • Soil Air
    01:18
  • Soil Water
    02:14
  • Soil Organic Matter
    02:35
  • Soil Biology: The Living Fraction
    04:34
  • Potential and Promises of Soil Microbes
    3 questions
  • Soil Texture
    03:53
  • Estimating Soil Texture
    3 questions
  • Building Soil Structure
    02:44

  • Eighteen Mineral Nutrients That Plants Require
    03:14
  • Soil Chemistry Testing
    03:55
  • Liebig's Law of the Minimum
    07:47
  • Consequences of Ignoring Liebig's Law
    05:55
  • Preview06:40
  • Adding Mineral Nutrients to Your Soil
    06:42
  • Biostimulants
    03:16

  • Building Soil Organic Matter
    11:57
  • Building Soil Biology
    03:00

  • Monitoring progress
    03:28

  • Introduction to Soil Chemistry
    01:58
  • Cation Exchange Capacity
    11:18
  • Soil pH
    10:31
  • Soil Redox
    06:45

  • Bonus Lecture
    01:51

Instructor

Mary Lucero
Systems Biologist
Mary Lucero
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 181 Reviews
  • 949 Students
  • 4 Courses

    Dr. Mary Lucero has spent thirty years as a research professional examining plant and microbial interactions in complex ecosystems.  

     Her conclusions that microbial communities define the health of all living systems provide a framwork for addressing soil health, crop nutrition, food security, and general health and wellness.

Today she enjoys sharing information that helps people utilize microbial communities to:

-restore nutrition to crops and soils

-build food security

-improve human health

-clean toxic environments

-help people thrive. 

    

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