Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Citizen Science: Living Soils, Growing Food
University of Dundee and GROW Observatory
This course explored current issues in the global food system and introduced learners to food growing techniques that can help reduce soil degradation and regenerate soils and ecosystems. Topics covered included: • Regenerative food growing practices: exploring the effectiveness of approaches like mulching, no dig, cover crops, creating wildlife friendly areas and more. • Citizen science projects and designing a robust research experiment to test different growing practices.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Drew Hemment
Research Fellow,
University of Dundee
Mel Woods
Reader in Creative Intelligence,
GROW Observatory
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore key approaches to food growing that can ameliorate soil degradation and regenerate soils and ecosystems
- Identify regenerative practices that you could implement in your growing site, and learn how to evaluate them to improve your growing.
- Describe key research principles and their importance in designing robust growing experiments for your garden and your community
- Carry out key measurements to assess soils and soil nutrients
- Gain direct experience of the research process by carrying out a growing experiment
Syllabus
- Citizen Science and Fieldwork
- The GROW Observatory
- Regenerative practices for food growers - exploring the effectiveness of approaches like mulching, no dig, cover crops, creating wildlife friendly areas and more
- Designing a robust research experiment to investigate the effectiveness of regenerative practices
- Finding a three-sisters crop combination (polycultures) to improve the productivity of your plot and the health of your soil
Issued on 1st May 2018
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