Get To Know Your Soil | Online Community Campfire with Soil Clinic

Get to Know Your Soil

Online Community Campfire

Tue 7 July 2026 | 6.30–8.00pm GMT

This July, we’re bringing together growers, educators and soil practitioners for a special online Community Campfire exploring soil health through a permaculture lens.

Alongside this event, we’re launching a new soil testing project across our network, with free soil testing kits being sent to community groups, gardens and local projects to help people explore what’s happening beneath their feet. 

Get your Soil Testing Kit here: permaculture.org.uk/articles/order-your-soil-testing-kit

This Campfire is an opportunity to bring observations, questions and experiences together.

Participants will be invited to:
• Explore practical ways to understand soil health
• Compare findings from different growing spaces
• Ask questions about their own soil
• Learn how soil connects to wider ecological systems

You do not need to have received one of the testing kits to take part.

Individuals, growers and community groups without kits are very welcome to join with their own observations and questions. In the lead-up to the event, we’ll also be sharing simple DIY soil testing ideas on social media so that anyone can take part using minimal equipment.

No specialist knowledge is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to observe and learn.

Healthy soil is more than something plants grow in. It’s a living system shaped by relationships between water, roots, fungi, microorganisms, insects and organic matter. One of the hopeful things about soil is that damaged systems can recover over time when conditions improve.

This Community Campfire is part of our wider seasonal exploration of soil, regeneration and resilient living.

Speakers

• Daniel Tyrkiel, Director, Soil Ecology Laboratory
• Naomi van der Velden, Ecologist and Researcher
• Matt Dunwell, Shift Bristol

Cost

Free for members | £6 for supporters and non-members

Booking

Book your place below. A Zoom link will be sent by email before the event.