Prepsoil TV
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Here you can find all the videos produced by PREPSOIL, covering insightful interviews, best teaching practices, examples of Communities of Practice and the work carried out at the Soil Needs Workshops!
Communities of Practice
A short history of the Landcare movement in Australia and lessons from its success
The national formation of the Landcare movement brought farmers and conservationists together to resolve environmental issues. Over the last 30+ years...
17 March 2025
Lundens gård: Alley cropping in Sweden
Lundens gård is one of the pioneers of alley cropping in Sweden, intercropping apple trees with grains. The farm cooperates with a knowledgeable...
17 March 2025
Stephen Barstow’s forest garden (Trondheim, Norway)
Stephen Barstow is an edible garden inspirator and a nestor of the Norwegian Seed Saver organisation, KVANN (kvann.no). He is the author of Around the...
17 March 2025
Regenerative agriculture field day at Steinvik farm (Trøndelag, Norway)
Trøndelag county has an active community of regenerative farmers that exchange experiences through the organization «Faglag for regenerativt landbruk...
17 March 2025
Blue! Advancing EU projects (Landsberg am Lech, Germany)
In this video, Teresa Luber, a Senior Project Manager at Blue Advancing European Projects, discusses the "LIFE Future Forest" project. Based in...
17 March 2025
Discovery Center Living Lab (Hungary)
In this video, Dora Szlatényi, Living Lab Manager at Discovery Center Nonprofit Kft, discusses sustainable soil management and precision agriculture...
17 March 2025
OptiFarm: Pioneering Sustainable Agriculture
Let's explore the innovative OptiFarm project at Inagro, West Flanders, Belgium. Discover how this lighthouse field combines cutting-edge techniques...
17 March 2025
ConcerTo Methodology (Région Pays de la Loire, France)
Héloïse Even, programme manager for biowaste, biomass and circular economy at the Pays de la Loire Regional Council tells us about the “ConcerTo...
17 March 2025
La Fresque du sol – The soil collage (Région Pays de la Loire, France)
Héloïse Even, programme manager for biowaste, biomass and circular economy at the Pays de la Loire Regional Council presents the Soil collage (« La...
17 March 2025
Soil health is the foundation of biointensive market gardening (Terény, Hungary)
Jean-Martin Fortier has dedicated his career to developing, testing, and perfecting biointensive growing techniques on microfarms such as Les Jardins...
17 March 2025
Exploring the way of nature – Foundation for School Gardens (Veresegyháza, Hungary)
Izolda Mátyás (agricultural engineer in environmental management, horticulture, green space maintenance, and soil conservation) is one of the staff...
17 March 2025
Soil conservation agriculture (Toulouse, France)
Lionel Alletto is Research Director in French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), in « AGroécologie, Innovations...
17 March 2025
Cascina Felizia: good practices - Re Soil Foundation (Cumiana Piedmont, Italy)
Roberto Pons, owner of the farm Cascina Felizia explains the good practices they bring for the soil and the land where the farm is located. The farm...
17 March 2025
The Magic Factory (Vestfold, Norway)
The Magic Factory is a biogas plant and fertilizer factory that receives food waste from a large share of people in eastern Norway and some of the...
17 March 2025
Good practices for forest soils - Re Soil Foundation (Piedmont, Italy)
Carlo Canale, forestry worker, talks about the importance of forest soils and the ecosystem services they provide to humans. These include timber...
17 March 2025
The Food Forest at Landås – an edible forest (Bergen, Norway)
The Food Forest in Landås is a commons and a demonstration garden for regenerative growing methods. The garden is beautifully situated in the southern...
12 March 2025
Leafmould instead of peat? The sustainable growing media! (Budapest, Hungary)
Gyöngyösi Emese, research project leader of ÖMKi Research Institute of Organic Agriculture has started a citizen science project to examine leafmould...
12 March 2025
The soil collage (France)
Antoine Pierart is coordinator of the soil theme at the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME), within the "Energy planning, foresight...
12 March 2025
Permaculture Myrrhis (Denmark)
Interview with farmer Karoline Nolsø Aaen, who has an agroforestry farm designed according to permaculture principles, where the cultivation of...
12 March 2025
Integrated organic livestock-agroforest system (Cerrado, Brazil)
Productive and economic performance of an integrated organic livestock-agroforest system in the Cerrado region
12 March 2025
Smedegården Organic farming (Denmark)
Interview with organic farmer Leif Hougaard, who focuses on soil health on his farm. Leif Hougaard has more than 130 hectares, and here he explains...
27 February 2025
Catch crops (Enebakk, Norway)
Interview with Maren Holthe from Norwegian Agriculture Extended Service. Experiences from a farmer-driven field trial in South-East Norway featuring...
02 April 2024
Terra Felix Social Cooperative (Italy)
Interview with Francesco Pascale, Executive Director at Terra Felix, The Terra Felix Social Cooperative is an accelerator of cultural and social...
28 March 2024
Praktisk økologi. An example of a community of Practice (Denmark)
Interview with Michael Elke, head of Landsforeningen Praktisk Økologi (PØ) in Denmark. In the interview, Mikael explains about the work accomplished...
28 March 2024
Farm scale composting (Enebakk, Norway)
Reflections on farm-scale composting of farmyard manure, and its quality and use in mixed farming, from Anna Katarina Berg from the Norwegian...
28 March 2024
Andreas Capjon / Økern Portal Rooftop garden in Oslo, Norway
Erik Joner, Head of Department and Research at NIBIO, in conversation about soil for rooftops with Andreas Capjon, manager of U-Reist. U-Reist has...
12 December 2023
Maïna Joner at Skøyenåsen hagelag in Oslo, Norway
Erik Joner, Head of Department and Research at NIBIO, in conversation about soil with Maïna Joner at Skøyenåsen hagelag in Oppsal in Oslo, Norway...
12 December 2023
Urban gardens at "Suerte Saavedra (Spain)"
This video documents the Urban Gardens initiative in Suerte Saavedra, in Badajoz region (Spain) Produced by Fundecyt-PCTEX for the prepsoil project...
11 December 2023
Living Labs & Lighthouses
Coventry University Living Lab (UK)
This video showcases the inspiring efforts of Coventry's Urban Living Lab, part of the Agri College Europe project. Join us as we hear from the...
17 March 2025
Soils in forest management: a lighthouse example in Northern Europe (Västerbotten, Sweden)
Joshua Ratcliffe, researcher and research engineer, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, and Hjalmar Laudon, Professor of Forest Landscape...
28 March 2024
Farming in Balance (Odling i balans) - Hacksta gård (Sweden)
"Odling i balans" is the name of a Swedish network of 18 pilot farms that was founded 30 years ago to focus on balanced agriculture. Farmers focus on...
12 December 2023
Farming in Balance (Odling i balans) - Hidinge gård (Sweden)
"Odling i balans" is the name of a Swedish network of 18 pilot farms that was founded 30 years ago to focus on balanced agriculture. Farmers focus on...
11 December 2023
Interviews
PREPSOIL Interview | Giulia Campodonico (ENOLL - NL)
Giulia Campodonico explains how PREPSOIL is empowering the laying of foundations for both the creation and maturation of LLs & LHs, through the...
17 March 2025
The place of soil in French law (Lyon, France)
Philippe Billet is professor of public law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lyon 3, and director of the Lyon Institute of Environmental Law (CNRS...
17 March 2025
PREPSOIL Interview | Pierre Renault (INRAE)
Pierre Renault talks about adressing soil and land variables in PREPSOIL.
11 December 2023
PREPSOIL Interview | Saskia Keesstra (Wageningen University - NL)
Saskia Keesstra explains how PREPSOIL will take a holistic approach to identifying and analysing soil needs throughout the 19 contrasting EU Member...
11 December 2023
PREPSOIL Interview | Niels Halberg (Aarhus University - Denmark)
Niels Halberg, Coordinator of PREPSOIL, explains how the project will support the implementation of the Soil Mission by creating awareness and...
11 December 2023
Best Teaching Practices
Best Teaching Practices - Economy is a wheel: Apitour
From Bolzano (Italy), get to know this project, which approach was to reuse and recycle materials, and the need to change our habits to create a fair...
17 March 2025
Best Teaching Practices | Love Your Wellies FarmPEAT
From Westmeath (Ireland) get to know the initiative where art was used to raise awareness about the value of peat landscape. FarmPEAT held an art...
17 March 2025
Best Teaching Practices | The soil to educate
From Cimitile (Italy), get to know this project, which approach was to raise awareness soil health importance in its early ages, to sustain life on...
12 March 2025
Celebrating Excellence in Soil Education - 1st PREPSOIL Best Teaching Practices Competition
Discover the 3 winners of the 1st PREPSOIL Best Teaching Practices Competition promoting successful approaches to youth soil education, training and...
12 December 2023
Best Teaching Practices | Carbon Cycle, Soil and Biodiversity within Italian students
From Italy get to know how the teacher Stefania Minelli prepared a project to explore soil-related topics, a subject that is scarcely or not at all...
12 December 2023
Best Teaching Practices | The vital soil - The Nature School in Lund
From Lund (Sweden) get to know how the teacher Carolina Lindeblad prepared a set of classroom activities, for secondary school students, to raise...
12 December 2023
Best Teaching Practices | Raising Soil Awareness among Austrian Pupils and Students
From Vienna (Austria) get to know how the teacher Barbara Birli prepared a set of classroom activities, for children between ages nine and thirteen...
11 December 2023
Webinars
PREPSOIL Webinar: Smart financing and sustainability soil health Living Labs & Light Houses | Day 2
PART 2 of PREPSOIL Webinar: Smart financing and sustainability of soil health Living Labs & Light Houses
17 March 2025
PREPSOIL Webinar: Smart financing and sustainability soil health Living Labs & Light Houses | Day 1
PART 1 of PREPSOIL Webinar: Smart financing and sustainability of soil health Living Labs & Light Houses
17 March 2025
PREPSOIL Webinar: Soil literacy among young people
On February 13, 2025, PREPSOIL organized a webinar titled "Soil literacy among young people – why does it matter and how can educators deal with it?"...
12 March 2025
Soil Needs Workshops
PREPSOIL Soil Needs Workshops (the Netherlands) - Interview with Thijs Vlaar
One of the Soil Needs Assessment workshops carried out by PREPSOIL took place in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is densely populated and...
17 March 2025
PREPSOIL Soil Needs Workshops (Estonia) - Interview with Anna-Helena Purre
Learn about the Regional Soil Needs Assessment carried out by PREPSOIL in the region of Soomaa, Estonia! Anna-Helena Purre gave an overview of the...
28 March 2024
PREPSOIL Soil Needs Workshops (Spain) - Interview with Manuel Pulido Fernández
Manuel Pulido Fernández from the University of Extremadura explained the impact of climate change on the agronomic system of Dehesa/Montado. Not only...
31 January 2024
Soil Needs Workshops (Hungary) - Interview with Judit Berenyi Uveges
During the Mission Soil week in Madrid, we had the chance to discuss the results of the Regional Soil Needs Assessment carried out by PREPSOIL in the...
24 January 2024
Soil Needs Assessment Workshop: Agricultural Land in Po Valley – Rimini (Italy)
The Rimini “PREPSOIL Regional Soil Needs Workshop” took place on the 4th of May, 2023. This workshop debated on the state of agricultural soil health...
12 December 2023
Getting started with Soil Living Labs in Norway | PREPSOIL workshops
This video documents a group of engaged stakeholders in the region of Trøndelag, Norway, who discuss about the challenges for soil health in their...
11 December 2023
PREPSOIL Soil Needs Workshops: Agroforestry – Badajoz (Spain)
The Badajoz “PREPSOIL Regional Soil Needs Workshop” took place on the 13th of April, 2023. This workshop aimed to debate on the state of soil health...
11 December 2023
Soil Advocates
Francisco Piris - Farmer from Huertas del Abrilongo (Spain)
Interview with Francisco Javier Piris, farmer at Huertas del Abrilongo. The "Las Huertas del Abrilongo" Project (LHA) seeks to demonstrate that it is...
28 March 2024
Francisca Palacio - Vocational Training Teacher (Spain)
Francisca Palacios Sosa is an agroecology vocational training teacher at IES Castillo de Luna. The I.E.S. Castillo de Luna is the successor of the...
28 March 2024
Adolfo Chauton – Landscape, Ecology and Gender Association (Spain)
Interview with Adolfo Chautón, from Asociación Paisaje, Ecología y Género. This association was created in 2003 to develop awareness-raising, advice...
28 March 2024