Every farmer cares about soil health. While remarkable progress in soil health has been made through reduced tillage and other practices across western Canada continued progress will be complex, multi-disciplinary and too much for any one organization to take on alone.

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This project sets out to initiate and facilitate collaborative soil health initiatives in each province leveraging the contribution of Assiniboine Community College, the Weston Foundation and other interested and capable partners.

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• We believe that meaningful continued progress can be made if we focus on:

• Elevating the grower discussion “on growers’ terms” with respectful understanding and acknowledgment of the different circumstances and considerations of each grower.

• Highlighting the important work done by many organizations like yours to assist and advance soil health and assembling the best available resources to be easily accessible.

• Capturing growers’ true interests and insights with minimal commercial or political noise and distraction.

• Linking producers to available resources to pursue their highest priority soil health objectives.

• Creating the opening for farm organizations and support services to explore collaborative responses to grower priorities and identified gaps in research and/or support services.

• Staying focused on soil health and growers’ priorities without being distracted by others definitions and expectations of what they would like farmers to do for others.