“Your Overall Quality Score is 80, which is in the Very High range.” That’s what a recent report from the Soil Health Laboratory at Cornell University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences concluded.
This is the first year that we’ve had Cornell do the soil testing here at Sea Call Farm. The report provides a baseline to follow for the future as we continue our switch over to a no-till approach for preparing our garden plots for the next Spring’s growing season.
Our previous nutrient testing was performed by UMass Amherst. A structural analysis was done in 2020 by the USDA, but this is the first time we’ve had biological testing performed.
Cornell’s lab is the gold standard for soil analysis.
To view the 2021 Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health report from Cornell’s Soil Health Laboratory, click here.
The 10-page report gives a breakdown of various indicators and assigns a rating to each. It also calculates the total score of 80 mentioned at the top of this post. The last pages of the report are dedicated to short-term and long-term recommendations for managing “Physical and Biological Constraints”.
Enjoy! And keep up the good work!
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