Updates

This month we received soil samples for screening from our 1000th garden! We've now returned 4767 sample results to 1035 households! THANK YOU to everyone who has taken part and spread the word so that we might better know our soil, and think a bit more about why...

Good question! Over the last two years, we, at Soilsafe Aotearoa, have received many enquiries about possible pesticide residues in soil and compost. Pesticides are very expensive to analyse and while we cannot offer pesticide analysis as a routine service, a small...

Our Soilsafe Kids workshop series continues in 2023! We're enjoying being back in classrooms in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (shout out to Riverina School, pictured here!) and soon we'll be working alongside students in Te Tai Tokerau Northland schools. In Tāmaki this...

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to Declan Fisher who is our most recent Masters student to have completed his research thesis under the Soilsafe Aotearoa programme. Declan's thesis examined the outputs from Dustsafe Aotearoa which examined environmental exposures and...

Kia ora tātou, We were excited to have published a description of our approach to our 2022 MBIE Unlocking Curious Minds funded Soilsafe Kids soil knowledge workshops. We have provided the summary here along with some of our findings from last year, which we...

Last year was another big year for Soilsafe Aotearoa, launching Soilsafe Kids and Dustsafe Aotearoa, working with more schools and community groups, supporting our postgrads in their research, and testing more domestic soil - we've now screened soil for more than...