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Sustainable Soils Alliance
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We campaign to restore UK soil to health within one generation. For food security, biodiversity, flood protection & climate change mitigation.
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekinSoil. This edition includes Defra's #Soilshot programme 🎯 Northern Irelands #NatureRecovery Strategy 🐞 A Kenyan soil initiative 🇰🇪 and much more
Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/48ltSzn

#SoilHealth #SoilMapping #SoilManagement
October 30, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekinSoil. This edition includes reviewing £1.2bn of UK #AgriculturalResearch🔬 Companies investing in #RegenerativeAgriculture🌾 A framework that combines VESS, SOM & clay 💚 and much more

Read it here➡️ bit.ly/4zPvfCd

#Mars
October 23, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekinSoil. This edition includes the #Organic Action Plan for England🐛Health investing in #RegenerativeAgriculture 🏥 Conferences about fire and soil🔥and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/3Uz87sF

#SoilHealth #Harvest
October 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Stay up to date soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekinSoil. This edition includes the UK’s largest active #Wetland restoration 🐸 Europe's first soil #CarbonCredits 💰a memo form a anonymous group of senior executives 📨 and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4rXQJtY

#SoilHealth
October 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Stay up to date with #soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekinSoil. This edition includes a new funding package for #NatureRecovery 💷 The rising costs of #LandDegradation 🌳 New research emerging from Spain 🇪🇸 and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4j5PjLH

#SoilHealth #Microplastics #SFI
October 2, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekInSoil. This edition includes the opening and closing of #SFI26🚪 The #fashion industry's influence 👗 Changes to the Red Tractor standards 🚜 and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4hs7gSb

#SoilHealth #Tesco #CarbonSink
September 25, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of The #WeekinSoil. This edition includes the launch of British #RegenerativeFarming Week 📆 #Microplastics acting as a Trojan horse 🐴 A Bangor University survey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4hfl6He

#SoilHealth
September 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of the #WeekinSoil. This edition includes buried Swiss underwear 🩲 A new global dataset 🗺️ Defra ministerial briefs 📑 and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/46r3PWu

#SoilHealth #Peat #Drought #UnderpantsIndex
August 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of The Week in Soil. This edition includes new measures to help farmers in England 🌾 COP17 in Mongolia 🌐 Modelling of future summers ☀️ and much more

Read it here ➡️https://bit.ly/4gb3jSs

#WeekInSoil #SoilHealth #Yield #Water
August 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of #TheWeekInSoil. This edition includes the earliest harvest in at least 20 years 🚜 Living soil microbial communities 🦠 Peatland restoration 💚 and much more

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/45ckAEw

#SoilHealth #Drought #Harvest #Peatland
August 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Stay up to date with this week's #soil news with the latest edition of #TheWeekinSoil. This edition includes farmers assessing their nutrient footprint 🧪 The impacts of Europe's drought 💧A nature recovery scheme 🌳 and much more
Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4yxVjSw

#Drought #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery
July 24, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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Stay up to date with #soil news with The Week in Soil. This edition includes the Land Use Framework actions 🌱 the CRCF regulation 💶 the Chelsea Flower Show 🌸 and much more.

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4vCEjYJ

#TheWeekinSoil #SoilNews #CRCF #Supplychain #NaturePositiveTransition
July 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of The Week in Soil. This edition includes the launch of CropSuit 🌐 Research into the reintroduction of legumes 🫘 Lloyds Banking Group supporting Regenerative agriculture 🏦 and much more.

Read it here ➡️https://bit.ly/4yg69fP
July 10, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news. This edition includes the UK’s new long‑term Farming Roadmap 🌱 rising food prices linked to degraded soils 📈 regenerative wheat making its way into everything from sourdough to KitKats 🌾 and much more.

Read it here ➡https://bit.ly/3QkMxWY

#WeekInSoil
June 26, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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The #WeekinSoil is back! Stay up to date with the week's #soil news. This edition includes a consultation on a new standard for soil carbon 📏 the first map of mycorrhizal fungi networks 🍄 research showing the impacts of dry-to-wet weather swings 🌦️ and much more.

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4ozylpr
June 19, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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📢 We're hiring! 📢

We are recruiting a Sustainability and Public Affairs Intern to to support our work championing one of the most critical environmental issues of our time: healthy soil.

Find out more ➡️ www.sustainablesoils.org/news/were-hi...

We look forward to hearing from you!
April 9, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Soil is in focus with a great exhibition at the @nationaltrust.org.uk Sizergh in the Lake District, featuring works by Mariana Heilmann, Wim van Egmond, Ben Lerwill, Joanne Coates, Elizabeth Clough and Steve Satterthwaite.

The exhibition runs til Nov 1st.

📸 Mariana Heilmann

#Soil #Art #SoilLife
April 7, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Has Scotland's Environment Strategy been adopted? Has the Land Use Framework landed? For the answers to these and other soil-related policy questions, take a look at our Policy Tracker.

www.sustainablesoils.org/our-work/out...

#Soil #Policy
UK soil policy tracker - Sustainable Soils Alliance
Our scan of UK policies involves the tracking and analysis of a range of existing and ongoing policy instruments as they relate to soil.
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April 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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The Final Report from the parliamentary roundtable on how soil-centric policy could bring about the aims of the Climate and Nature Bill is out.

To view the report and find out more about the event, head to our site:

bit.ly/RTFinalReport

#ClimateandNatureBill #SoilHealth
Climate and Nature – Living Soils Deliver for Both: Parliamentary Event Final Report - Sustainable Soils Alliance
Final Report for the Parliamentary Roundtable on how soil‑centric approaches can help deliver the aims of the Climate and Nature (CAN) Bill.
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March 31, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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With the Joint Nature Conservation Committee publishing the first national #IndicatorsForSoilHealth, England takes a step forward in how it measures, understands and improves its soils.

To find out more about this milestone for #SoilHealth, click on:

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National Soil Health Indicators for England: a milestone in environmental policy - Sustainable Soils Alliance
England’s first national Indicators of Soil Health have been published by the JNCC, marking a milestone for soil health.
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March 30, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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📢 We're hiring! 📢

We are recruiting a Sustainability and Public Affairs Intern to to support our work championing one of the most critical environmental issues of our time: healthy soil.

Find out more ➡️ www.sustainablesoils.org/news/were-hi...

We look forward to hearing from you!
March 30, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of #TheWeekinSoil. This edition includes a soil health indicator 🌱 soil carbon loss driven by drought💧traditional agriculture to fight climate change 🪱 & much more.

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/4szTnp3
March 27, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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The long-anticipated Land Use Framework for England has landed - and we're pleased to see that soil soil health is positioned as a cross‑cutting priority within England’s land‑use strategy.

Find the LUF here: bit.ly/LUF26

Look out for our analysis early next week.

#LandUseFramework #England #Soil
A post by the Sustainable Soils Alliance on the announcement of the Land Use Framework for England
March 20, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of #TheWeekinSoil. This edition includes funding for flood management💧regen farming creating £1.6bn in profits🪱seagrass meadows saving coastlines 🌊 & much more.

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/3NQ0cUv
March 20, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Two new books on soil science from @bdspublishing.bsky.social have just been published:

📘 Contaminants in Agricultural Soils
📗 Measuring & Assessing Biological Soil Health

More info at bdspublishing.com — use code SOILC20 for 20% off.

#SoilHealth #Research
March 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM