Gain a holistic understanding of soil stewardship techniques in this soil science course at UW Botanic Gardens. Explore how to protect intact soil ecosystems and repair disturbed soils through best practices and groundbreaking research. Learn about erosion control, mulching, and more in this comprehensive class.
This is the fifth class in our soil science series, Getting Down to Earth: Understanding Soils for Ecosystem Resilience and Repair. This series of classes will build from the ground up a holistic knowledge of soils that will enable students to understand soil stewardship techniques, from how they work to when to use them.
Conserving and building self-sustaining soils form the foundation of ecosystem restoration. Learn how a good understanding of existing site and soil conditions informs choosing best approaches to protecting intact soil ecosystems and repairing disturbed soils. Long-standing best practices as well as practices rooted in recent groundbreaking research will be covered. Working around existing native vegetation, especially trees, to protect roots, proper use of soil amendments, erosion control, and mulch will be reviewed.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
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If a program is canceled by the school for any reason, a full refund will be made to all enrollees. Refunds may take four weeks to process.
In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.
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