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Healthy Soils Initiative
The Healthy Soils Initiative promotes better understanding of soil health and constraints in Central Victoria. This project was funded by the Commonwealth of Australia through the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, under the Smart Farms, Small Farms grant program.
The Healthy Soils Initiative promotes better understanding of soil health and constraints in Central Victoria. It provides landowners with information and tools to assess soil health and constraints, manage soil to build improve and maintain soil health, and monitor their soils’ health from season to season into the future. The initiative aims to promote practical soil health management that boosts farm productivity and helps farmers to benchmark, build and maintain soil health.
The project works with farmers to:
- identify their soil constraints through on-site soil testing;
- develop management plans to build, maintain and monitor soil health.
The initiative has been developed by the Mount Alexander Sustainability Group and Federation University, with funding support from the Australian Government through the National Landcare Program Smart Farms Small Grants initiative.
Please view/download any of the nine sections below, or download the full project document below.
