Attention Vancouver Island farmers, land managers, and food growers!
If you’re interested in better understanding soil health and management practices aimed towards maintaining healthy soils, this field day is for you!
This on-farm field day will provide both theoretical and practical introduction to soil health management. Farmer hosts and facilitators will lead discussion of soil health principles and practices across a range of soil types and farming systems. Visual and laboratory methods of monitoring soil health challenges will be featured along with lessons learned with soil health management challenges. 
Registered participants will be eligible for a complementary soil laboratory analysis.
The Islands Region Soil Health project is part of the of the 
Extension program
.
What to bring or wear:
Clothing, sun hat, and sturdy footwear appropriate for the forecasted weather and outdoor conditions.
Participants are invited to stay for an optional farmer hosted lunch and networking session afterwards. Registration required, as space is limited.
Field Days Facilitator: DeLisa Lewis, PhD, LLAG
DeLisa Lewis is co-owner and operator of Green Fire Farm, a diverse 40-acre farm with vegetables, livestock, and hay production in the Cowichan Valley. She has over 25 years of experience as a certified organic vegetables farmer, and 17 years of experience with soil health/nutrients, focused on farm research and field trials.
DeLisa holds a PhD in Soils and Agroecology from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC and is a research associate with Dr. Sean Smukler and the Sustainable Agriculture Landscapes (SAL)Lab. Together, they have established a long-term research collaboration at Green Fire Farm and the UBC Farm, aimed at supporting farmers, balancing economic and environmental outcomes with soil their management practices.
Funded by:
Funding is provided in part by the governments of Canada and British Columbia under the 
Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership
, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.
Information Source: AgriService BC | eventbrite

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