A one-day course on the management of your arable or mixed farming operation using the soil health principles.

Course Outcomes

• Reviewing and analysing your successes/failures in the season
• Finding more ways soil health principles in your management operations
• Use amendments & foliar nutrients to enhance plant performance/photosynthesis
• Design a composting system for your operation

Content

• Plant nutrition & plant health
• Monitoring plant health: Brix testing, sap pH
• Soil nutrient balancing, amendments, and mineral applications
• Foliar nutrition for plant health
• Selecting & using lab testing: soil minerals, base saturation
• Building soil organic matter, foliar/sap analysis
• Composting systems & upcycling manure resources – applied theory
• Review of your season so far (rotation etc) – feedback from group and tutor
• Data gathering & monitoring review (Soilmentor etc)

Who is this course for?

• Arable growers, farm hands
• Graziers, shepherds
• Farm managers

What you take away from the course

• PowerPoint Presentations

Course Schedule

• Morning – theory, classroom
• Afternoon (2x cohorts, grazing and arable)
• Brix testing practical, soil assessment, compost/manure demo/discussion
• Prep – set out plots for Brix practical

Resources Required

• Nutrient materials (selection of, soluble)
• Muck heap, compost area, biomass

Ticket price includes refreshments and a nutritious and seasonal lunch at FarmED.

Who’s this course for?

This course is designed for arable and livestock farmers but is also suitable for landowners, estate managers, farm advisors and ecologists. To gain the most benefit from the course it is recommended that you have access to land on which you can practice the lessons learned during the course.

It is recommended that you complete this course before signing up for the other Regenerative Soil Health Courses with Niels Corfield at FarmED (see events page for more details).

About Niels Corfield

Niels Corfield has been working to deliver truly sustainable food and   farming systems for more than 15 years. He is an independent adviser  and trainer. He has 12 years’ experience in adult education and is   formally trained in Holistic Management and Regenerative Agriculture   Design. On a mission to create regenerative landscapes and farms in the   UK and Europe, Niels focuses on agroecological systems that are low   maintenance yet productive.

“The course was truly inspirational…I feel it’s  only the beginning” – Natasha, participant on Fundamentals of  Regenerative Soil Health course 2021.