Soil Chromatography Participatory Workshop with Melissa Schultheis

Name: Soil Chromatography Participatory Workshop with Melissa Schultheis
Start: 2024-07-06T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-06T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Seed Song Farm

Schedule

Sat Jul 06 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Seed Song Farm | Kingston, NY

Soil Chromatography Participatory Workshop with farmily friend Melissa Schultheis
Soil chromatography is the photographic process of allowing a treated filter to absorb a prepared soil sample by capillary action. According to this method's advocates, the resulting photograph depicts the composition of minerals, organic matter, and microbial life within the collected soil sample. Yet as a form of soil sampling, this method has typically been overlooked by the scientific community. Soil chromatography, nevertheless, is an accessible and inexpensive place-based practice that has the potential to stoke public interest in soil and environmental health while also beautifully chronicling the life of and in the soil that supports us.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to prepare and run a soil chromatogram to take home. All supplies will be provided, but participants who wish to run additional chromatograms at home are encouraged to bring their own soil sample and a glass jar with a lid.
Melissa is a farmer, educator, and artist with over ten years of experience in education, research, and organic production farming! Soil chromatography is an accessible and inexpensive place-based practice that beautifully chronicles the life of the soil that supports us. Children are welcome to attend with an adult.
Register NOW to hold your spots, and get an early discount using EARLYDIRT coupon code! https://form.jotform.com/241586131806153
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This workshop will be offered as an optional add on to farmyard admission. Bring your campchairs, picnic blanket, cash for food and beverages from the farm store, and enjoy 215 acres of green fields, blue skies, farm animal friends, The Curiosity Center, farm games and playground afterwards!