Adding Agroforestry

Our mission is to improve soil health on Indiana’s urban and community small-scale agricultural land.

Urban Soil Health

Add agroforestry at any scale - to your farm, garden, community, and life!

Merry Lea Environmental Learning

Tour Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center and Goshen College&#x27;s 6.5acre agroforestry plot (a 7-year-old berry/fruit/nut planting) with John Mischler, try your hand at summer grafting and summer pruning, and then spend the afternoon with other farmers, gardeners, and aspiring farmers, planning out how you can add more perennials to your own land. The design session will be led by Darren Bender-Beauregard of Brambleberry Farm, with help from Savanna Institute, Urban Soil Health, Hoosier Young Farmers Coalition, and Partners IN Food and Farming (PIFF).Urban Soil Health will print out soil survey maps for everyone who registers by July 6 (and they are offering 1 free soil nutrient test to each participant!). See details below. Bring copies of any past soil tests.Details:<ul><li>Free. </li><li>Lunch - included - Sponsored by SARE.</li><li>Registration deadline: July 6th</li><li>Participant limit: 30 people </li></ul>Agenda:<ul><li>8:30am - Check in </li><li>9am – 11:30am – Farm Tour and summer grafting / pruning demo </li><li>11:30 – 1pm – Lunch - included- Sponsored by SARE.</li><li>1 – 4pm – Design Charette </li></ul>Partners:<ul><li>Partners IN Food and Farming (PIFF)</li><li>Hoosier Young Farmers Coalition (HYFC)</li><li>Savanna Institute</li><li>Brambleberry Farm</li><li>Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College</li><li>Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)</li><li>Urban Soil Health Program (USH)</li></ul>

Soil Tests for Participants:<ul><li>1 free nutrient analysis soil sample is available for registrants. Sample must be collected and mailed in by participant. The cost of processing the sample is free - participant pays shipping cost. </li><li>
Download, fill out the rest, and print this template soil sample submittal form - include with shipped soil sample:
 <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vc7otz7anTmWr-uWYedxWUYOCcH-RJHD/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vc7otz7anTmWr-uWYedxWUYOCcH-RJHD/view?usp=sharing</a> </li><li>Mail sample to: A&amp;L Great Lakes Laboratories, Inc.
3505 Conestoga Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46808</li><li>Purdue Extension Soil sample collection publication <a href="https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/HO/HO-71-W.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/HO/HO-71-W.pdf</a></li><li>Call / Email Jamie Perry (Urban Soil Health) with any questions: (260) 739-9382, jperry@urbansoilhealth.org</li></ul>

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