Evenings Afield: Be a Good Ancestor - Build Good Soil
Thu, Jul 24
|Twin Crix Farm
Learn the basics of carbon sequestration, taking and interpreting soil tests, and creating healthy soil in your field, garden, and beyond.
Time & Location
Jul 24, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Twin Crix Farm, 6679 WI-23, Spring Green, WI 53588, USA
About the event
Whether you tend a farm, a garden, or a yard, this wisdom from Native American ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer should be taken to heart. Nurturing soil health has benefits far beyond your piece of ground, and far into the future. Soil experts will use soil cores, a rainfall simulator, and a trip to a perennial crop field and blueberry patch to describe interactions between soil health, water quality and movement, and plant life. Learn the basics of carbon sequestration, taking and interpreting soil tests, creating healthy soil, and soil-stream dynamics.
Leaders: Patrick Michaels, Twin Crix Farm; Dick Cates, Cates Family Farm; Katie Abbott, Iowa County Conservation Department; Joe Stapleton, Stapleton Farm
Evenings Afield is a program of the Lowery Creek Watershed Initiative. One evening per month, we set aside time for learning in the field from experts and each other, socializing with like-minded landowners and residents, and seeing…