Bungendore Field Day: Small Water Cycle and Soil Carbon
Event description
In Partnership with the Mulloon Institute
Get to know the health of your soil through simple DIY tests in this practical field day lead by Soil Scientist, Philip Mulvey. We'll discuss the importance of mending and maintaining the small water cycle and how to build and track soil carbon on your farm.
During this event we will discuss:
- What is a healthy water cycle?
- Actions that contribute to loss of water cycle
- Maintaining a healthy water cycle
- Why carbon in soil requires water cycling
- How carbon in soil builds drought resilience
- Measuring carbon in soil as a crop
- DIY Soil Assessment in practice using Ryzo's Soil Properties Observation Tests (SPOT).
- Q&A Session
LOCATION:
3585 Kings Highway,
Bungendore, NSW
Follow driveway to 'The Barn'
DATE & TIME:
21st November 2023
9:30am–2:30pm (a break for lunch included)
Demo & Practice: we invite you to bring about 250g of your best and worst top soil and soil from 30 cm deep and 4 empty jars to participate.
Lunch, pH Kit, Access to SPOT app and Farmer's Handbook included in the ticketing price.
Ryzo reserves the right to cancel if numbers are insufficient to cover costs associated with the event.
About Philip Mulvey:
Philip Mulvey is a soil and landscape scientist with over 40 years of experience as a consultant and business owner. He has founded or owns several businesses, including Carbon Count, Environmental Earth Sciences International, New Soil, EESI Remediation, Tuckerbox Bakeries, and 3D-Ag.
His expertise in different climates and agricultural systems around the world, as well as his work advising restoration projects for damaged land, provides him with unique insights into the disruption and restoration of water cycles.
His book, Ground Breaking: Soil Security and Climate Change, discusses the loss of the small water cycle from land which results in more extreme events such as droughts, floods, severe frosts, extreme heat events and bushfires. The book provides practical solutions for agricultural management to enable the restoration of landscape, climate and community.
Learn more on our website www.ryzo.earth