For Friday, May 8th, were in Brooklyn at the Pratt Dye Garden testing soil from 12 noon - 4 pm in collaboration with Sam Asher as part of the Soil First Aid testing event, so come through. Because this event includes educational workshops, the format will be a little different than usual - Testing will happen in batches from 12:00 - 12:30, then half an hour of group interpretation and discussion, followed by a project presentation from 1 - 2 pm, then more batch soil testing, interpretations/discussions in the same tempo until 4 pm. 

About the project: Soil First Aid is an interdisciplinary soil testing project in Pratt’s Dye Garden, examining the existing conditions of the garden’s soils along the North wall and analyzing the impacts of three improvement techniques: compost, red clover cover crops, and biochar. Through the use of chemical soil testing and soil chromatography, Soil First Aid reveals the graduality of human-perceived change in a system dominated by microbes through quantitative analyses and visual chromatograms.