2025 Soil Health Field Day
- Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us for a hands-on soil health field day! This event is for small-scale and urban growers, gardeners and farmers, with a focus on best practices for building soil health and cover cropping, and is a part of the 2025 Soil Health and Climate Resilience Field Days. It will offer valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health. Hosted by CCE Harvest New York and Cornell Vegetable Program, NY Soil Health, Monroe County SWCD, Taproot Collective, Rochester Urban Ag Working Group, Foodlink and more.
Registration table will open at 2:30 PM and the program will start promptly at 3:00 PM.
Topics include:
- Cover cropping in small spaces- species selection, seeding and termination strategies
- Cover crop demonstration plots
- Building soil health in raised beds
- Best practices for dealing with heavy metals soil contamination in the urban environment
- Soil health demonstrations on impacts of cover crop and other management practices from NY Soil Health
COST: FREE, light refreshments provided, but pre-registration is required. Space is limited!
Fee
FREE
Learn More
https://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/event.php?id=2082
Register
https://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=2082
Location
Foodlink Community Farm
585 Lexington Ave
Rochester, NY 14613
Last updated August 22, 2025