Regenerating Soils with Walter Jehne

Event details

  • 17 June 2018
  • 10:00 am
  • TORBAY
  • 0439461591

On Sunday 17th June this special event will see Walter Jehne (Healthy Soils Australia) visit our area to discuss local soils.  Walter is an internationally recognised soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. He has immense field and research experience in forests, grasslands, agriculture and soils at national (CSIRO) and international (UN) level.  Walter’s scientific work has focused on soil biology, plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, soil-carbon formation, as well as on biology’s enormous influence on hydrological cycles, weather patterns, regional and global cooling, air quality, and cloud formation and precipitation. He has a remarkable ability to explain complex systems in easy to understand ways.

At this event Walter will discuss a sequence of project options to help locals understand and refine practical methods to harness soil biology in regenerating the health, bio-fertility and viability of farming soils and systems in south Western Australia.

Our theme for the day’s event will be  WHAT IS THE SOIL SPONGE, understanding WATER SHEDDING, CARBON SEQUESTRATION & NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY via HEALTHY SOIL BIOLOGY.

Bookings essential: BOOK HERE

Cost: FREE to TCG members;  Non-members $25

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