Soil Food Web training – learn by doing!

Time: 1.-3.4.2025
Place: AhlmanEdu, Tampere, Finland
Price: 350 € (incl. teaching, materials, breakfast, coffee and lunch)

During the training 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!

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

Trainer: Dora Tkalec, SFW Specialist
Level of the training: EQF  3