Your garden’s ability to provide healthy foods is effected by its soil’s ecological balance. Invite regenerative agriculture enthusiast, Tom Fayle (and IPS Alumni Parent) into your garden for an overall examination of the health of your garden. Tom can discuss the importance of the Soil Food Web to create the nutrient cycling needed to grow healthy plants, without the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. Tom can complete a biological assessment of your soil for the presence of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. You will get the chance to meet some of these organisms (good and bad) up close and personal as Tom takes you on a microscopic tour of your own backyard!Winner will be put in contact with Tom to arrange visit.Soil image credited to: "Soil Biology Primer” by Elaine R. Ingham, Andrew R. Moldenke, Oregon State University, Clive A. Edwards, The Ohio State University Soil Examination restricted to Bowen Island, North Shore, Vancouver West and East Side.
