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Virginia Soil Health Coalition

WEBThe Virginia Soil Health Coalition facilitates communication and collaboration among partners across the commonwealth to support farmers, leverage resources, and advance strategies that increase soil health

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URL: https://www.virginiasoilhealth.org/

ABOUT Virginia Soil Health Coalition

WEBUSDA NRCS first established the Virginia Soil Health Coalition when the agency launched its soil health initiative in 2013. NRCS invited this loose affiliation of partners to submit signed letters to the state conservationist, endorsing implementation of four core soil health management principles when compatible with a land manager’s goals and operation.

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Training Virginia Soil Health

WEBFunding for this project is provided by Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) as part of their Professional Development Programming Grant Program. During the fall of 2022, the Coalition worked with Virginia NRCS and other Coalition partners on a series of 8 soil health training field days across the state.

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Research Brief: Thoughts on the Soil Health Metaphor

WEBThe authors first acknowledge that metaphors have long been used in science to help make abstract concepts easier to understand but can also make concepts vague and difficult to quantify numerically. Soil health is not immune from being simultaneously helpful and vague. While soil health elicits a strong response from …

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People & Partners Virginia Soil Health

WEBThe Virginia Soil Health Coalition is a broad network of diverse partners working to promote soil health across the commonwealth. We invite any organization that support our vision, mission, and common ground principles to share their logo as partners of the Coalition.. The Coalition is guided by a Steering Committee of soil health leaders across the …

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Podcast Virginia Soil Health

WEBThe podcast is a collaboration of Virginia Cooperative Extension, On The Farm Radio, USDA-NRCS, and the Virginia Soil Health Coalition with specific funding from the Agua Fund and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Listen wherever you get your podcasts (Apple, Spotify, SoundCloud, Spreaker ). New episodes are released on the second and

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Innovation Teams Virginia Soil Health

WEBThe Virginia Soil Health Coalition has established a series of Innovation Teams to serve as hubs for partners to collaborate and coordinate their efforts on specific topics related to soil health. These workgroups aim to foster deeper collaboration, innovation, and ultimately the successful implementation of soil health systems on the ground.

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Videos and Movies Virginia Soil Health

WEBVideos produced by the Common Grain Alliance focusing on investing in soil health practices, stories from the field, and conversations with members.

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Featured Resource: Green Cover Seeds' Soil Health Resource …

WEBIn this week’s episode of 4 The Soil: A Conversation, Dr. Elizabeth Heilman of Wichita State University uplifted the importance of farmer-to-farmer relationships and networks as a community of practice. The Virginia Soil Health Coalition similarly as a public and private coalition of practitioners and organizations encourages the sharing of soil …

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New Video Series: Purposeful Cover Crops

WEBSustainable Chesapeake and Virginia Soil Health Coalition Partners are pleased to announce the release of four videos focused on how cover crops (a high priority conservation practice for Chesapeake Bay restoration) can save farmers money by improving yields, reducing input costs, improving drought resilience, and preventing …

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Technical Assistance Virginia Soil Health

WEBTechnical Assistance. The routine soil test is all one normally needs for a fertility evaluation. Soil samples are analyzed and computer recommendations generated usually within 3 working days of receipt. The Cover Crop Selection Tool provides a first step for NRCS field staff and landowners to begin a discussion on the feasibility of planting

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