[Education] 2025 Spring Newsletter

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** Spring 2025 Newsletter
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Come learn with us in the field! Check out class offerings below.
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After decades of work on bioremediation projects and practices in the field, we recently joined up with Dr. Danielle Stevenson and her team at The Centre for Ecological Remediation (CAER). We have been involved in planning work and trainings going forward after the SoCal fires. (caer.earth)
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** Recent Doings
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‘Healing Soils in Place’ workshop in Sugar Hill district, Jacksonville, FL

We traveled to Jacksonville, Florida and worked with incredible people during that strong and surprising ice, snow, and cold that hit the South! And conducted a series of talks, project builds, and work days with various partners and sites - Eartha’s Farm and Market, YellowHouse, and Davis Street Soil Project. Noelle from Davis Street Soil Project and I made an appearance on public radio station WJCT!
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Nance installing the exhibit at the Art Institute!

I screened and blended 3,000 lbs of soil, sand, and clay to build Piso de Tierra for the Colombian artist, Juliana Gongora Rojas, for her exhibition ‘En El Principio’ (‘In The Beginning’) in the Architecture wing of The Art Institute of Chicago. Enjoy the exhibition at the museum through the end of July!
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Scoop a copy of our new reader!

Land.Place.Belonging. reader #3 is now in print and available through us here (https://socialecologies.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=949625f8e7341ba1ba98ebe7c&id=27f1f40080&e=2d5d7beae6) ! Illustrator and print maker Atlán Arceo-Witzl also made a poster beautifully silkscreened by HoofPrint for this issue!
Poster hot off the press!
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** Spring Programs with
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Currently we are enjoying working in person with cohorts of 35 participants in our two-part, Introduction to Applied Soil Science at both UIC and Garfield Park Conservatory.

Come learn with us! The Mind of Soil: Soil Chemistry course is online and runs every Monday night in April from 5:30-8 pm CST. Register by Sunday, April 6th, here (https://socialecologies.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=949625f8e7341ba1ba98ebe7c&id=ec8ab7ed7b&e=2d5d7beae6) !

note: We have a few reduced tickets available for this course for those who could use the support. A strong understanding of soil biology or soil geology is required for admittance. Should you be interested, contact us at thesoilkeepers at gmail.com (mailto:thesoilkeepers at gmail.com)  before Sunday at midnight with interest and soil science background.


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** Upcoming in Autumn with The Soil Keepers
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Building Strategies for Impacted sites (September - November)
* A three month, low residency course taught by Nance Klehm and others.
* This course will be hybrid with elements online and a core piece in the field in Chicago.

The Life of Soil: Soil Biology (October)
* Live online course with fieldwork assignments taught by Nance Klehm.

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** Going Forward
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We have over 30 years of experience in the field of working with urban sites, soil health, compost technologies, agricultural land and broader land and landscape considerations and planning. Check out our services here (https://socialecologies.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=949625f8e7341ba1ba98ebe7c&id=1cf2e622df&e=2d5d7beae6)  and reach out to us here (https://socialecologies.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=949625f8e7341ba1ba98ebe7c&id=459f4bcc4e&e=2d5d7beae6) . Follow us on Instagram @social.ecologies (https://socialecologies.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=949625f8e7341ba1ba98ebe7c&id=0807ae9438&e=2d5d7beae6) and LinkedIn (https://socialecologies.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=949625f8e7341ba1ba98ebe7c&id=aaba9c4816&e=2d5d7beae6) or contact us at thesoilkeepers at gmail.com (mailto:thesoilkeepers at gmail.com)  or info at socialecologies.net (mailto:info at socialecologies.net) . Happy spring!


Spring 2024 at the Heron Rookery in Indiana Dunes National Park.

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