This collection of resources and tools focuses on improving the health of agricultural soils. Healthy soils can benefit both on-farm productivity and environmental health. They are also critical to enabling farms and ranches to sequester carbon, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and be more resilient to increasingly intense and erratic weather conditions. These pages provide information for landowners, as well as practitioners who work with producers, including those who participated in American Farmland Trust’s Soil Health Stewards Training Program.
Soil Health
Soil Health for Entities
Designed for agricultural land protection practitioners, this Soil Health Toolkit provides an introduction to soil health practices and guidance on how to discuss these practices with farmers and ranchers.
Learn moreSoil Health Economic Case Study Toolkit
Designed for agricultural conservation professionals, this toolkit walks you through how to use the Retrospective Soil Health Economic Calculator (R-SHEC) Tool and how to write a case study of “soil health successful” row crop farmers and tree nut growers.
Learn moreSoil Health Stewards Toolkit
This toolkit includes video sessions and resources from AFT’s Soil Health Stewards Training Program for agricultural land protection practitioners.
Learn moreSoil Health for Landowners
Resources coming soon!