1. Soil Safari: What Lives in Healthy Soil (LIVE Microscopy)

Ever wondered what's actually living in your soil? In this free Soil Safari webinar from Compost Academy, we put healthy soil and finished compost under the microscope for a live look at the soil food web — the hidden ecosystem that drives real soil health. Join Compost Academy cofounders Raleigh, Keisha, Casey, and Brian for a live soil microscopy hunt. We'll track down the organisms that matter most for soil biology: nematodes, ciliates, amoebae, flagellates, beneficial fungi, bacteria, rotifers, and if we're lucky, a tardigrade or two. More importantly, we'll explain what each organism does and what its presence tells you about the health of your soil and compost. Soil microscopy is one of the most practical tools in regenerative agriculture and organic gardening. Traditional chemical, mineral, and soil structure tests are useful, but they can't show you the living microbiology doing the real work underground. With qualitative soil assessment methods like QMATT, you can read your soil's health directly: no lab required, and shorten the learning curve dramatically. What you'll learn in this soil health webinar: • How to use a microscope to assess soil and compost health • How to identify key soil food web organisms (nematodes, protozoa, fungi, bacteria) • What soil microbiology reveals about compost quality and plant health • How qualitative analysis with QMATT speeds up your soil assessment skills • Why microscopy beats chemical testing for understanding living soil This webinar is perfect for compost makers, market gardeners, regenerative farmers, permaculture growers, and anyone serious about building living, biologically active soil. Want to go deeper? Our 6-Week Microscopy Training Program teaches you soil microscopy from the ground up. Enrollment is open now — learn more at https://www.compost.academy/Microscopy Subscribe for more on soil health, composting, soil biology, and regenerative growing. #soilhealth #soilfoodweb #compost #soilmicrobes #regenerativeagriculture