The Body of Soil: Soil Geology with The Soil Keepers

Main topics:

• Deep time and the rock cycle
• Soil types and their characteristics
• Soil structure and aggregation
• Soil color and major minerals
• Common elements and how they work with biology

• Methods of soil evaluation in the field

We meet online Sunday afternoons in March 2025

**Only 15 spots available**

Deadline to register: February 20, 2025

$325 standard ticket

$500pay-it-forward to allow others who are met by financial challenge

(prior Soil Keepers students receive $25 discount)

Limited supported tickets are available for those who have financial constraints and do

wish to study with us. Contact: [email protected]

Classes within this course are participatory, dense and built on each other. We encourage you to attend all four classes.

You can expect completing another 2-3 hours per week of independently paced work including viewing specially created short films, selected background readings and conducting independent field work. There will be no opportunity for make ups.

Graduates will receive a certificate of completion of The Body of Soil from Social Ecologies. All four classes must be attended to receive this certificate.

Meet your instructor

Nance Klehm is the founder and director of Social Ecologies, which consults and trains others to build capacities of communities, organization and institutions on issues of soil restoration, soil remediation, regenerative soil health, waste-to-nutrient systems and water systems around the world.

Nance’s work demonstrates her lifelong commitment to redefining the way human populations coexist with plant and animal systems on this planet. She is based in Chicago and the Driftless region of NW IL.

Host or Publisher Social Ecologies