You will learn to understand the basics of the importance of the soil micro-organisms and how to make the soil food web your most important partner in soil management. In this hands-on workshop, you'll get your hands dirty with compost!
The training is EQF Level 3
During the training you will:
• Learn practical steps on how to abandon conventional land management
practices that damage soil ecosystem and identify different beneficial and harmful organisms in the soil food web.
• Gain basic knowledge on how to make high-quality bioactive compost
and learn to use compound biological microscope.
• Examine soil and distinguish good compost from a low-quality one
by using sensory and microscopic methods.
• Prepare compost extracts and examine them under a microscope to
evaluate the success of compost / compost liquids.