Soil Health library
Soil Health resources for teaching, presentations, and displays
The Master Gardener Volunteer Program teaches about building healthy soils to prevent depletion and ensure the long-term viability of local food security & natural resources.
The Program Priorities Toolkit is a guide containing a wealth of information for teaching our nine program priorities, including a section on local food.
Soil Health presentation template
Download this PowerPoint template to customize your soil health presentation.
How to Use the PowerPoint presentation slide decks
Watch this short video by Caitlin May, WSU Extension Pierce County Master Gardener Program Coordinator, to learn how to effectively use the Extension Master Gardener branded PowerPoint slides. The video is about 9-minutes long.
(The above sample lesson plan is for a class on growing tomatoes.)
Use this template to create your own lesson plan.
Download a zip file filled with soil health graphics for use on social media.
Zoom backgrounds
To save background, click red “Download”, then right click on image and choose “Save image as” to your device.
Other helpful resources
Evaluations
coming soon Soil Health logic model (.pdf)
Soil Health survey (Qualtrics)
Short link to survey: bit.ly/EMGsoil
Soil Health survey questions for review (.doc)
Soil Health survey QR code (.png)
Soil Health survey half-page handout (.pdf)
How to calculate knowledge learned (.pdf)
Throughout this site there are links to documents of various file types. Please contact our Statewide Program Leader if you require this information in a different format.