Hosted by AgriSea New Zealand alongside Rere Ki Uta Rere Ki Tai
$95 + booking fee
Event information
We invite you to learn about significant insights into the role of soil biology for fixing nitrogen, preventing leaching and raising farm profitability in this workshop led by Dr Christine Jones.
Dr Jones shares how to optimise soil health and production systems, giving farmers and land managers knowledge they can integrate into their own operations.
“She advocates growing plants from different families together, as these plants swap minerals and carbon all the time, with the whole community connected by another extremely important community that keeps it all going, the common mycorrhizal network.”
Farmers will be shown information such as how when plant communities contain at least eight species from four different families and include a variety of tall and short herbs, they contribute hugely to the mycorrhizal networks and keep a whole underground microbial community thriving. She explains other ways to support soil life and plant health, what this means for nutrition of the animals and profitability on-farm.