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  • Lab Home
  • About
    • Soil Health Lab Team
    • Who to contact
  • Testing services
    • Soil Health Analysis Packages
    • Submission Forms
    • Individual soil analyses
    • Soil Heavy Metal Testing
    • Simple guide for submitting samples
    • Soil sample collection
    • Sample storage and shipment
    • How much soil to send
    • Borrow a penetrometer
    • Interpreting results
    • FAQ
  • Manual
  • Resources
    • Soil Health Manual Fact Sheets
    • Guide to Prohibited, Domestic Regulated and Quarantine Soils
  • Soil painting
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Featured

  • Cornell Soil Health Lab Manual Fact Sheet Series
  • Cornell Soil Health Lab Standard Operating Procedures 2022

 

Regulated Soil Information

  • Cornell Soil Health How to Package and Ship Samples
  • Cornell Soil Health Laboratory Guide to Prohibited, Domestic Regulated and Quarantine Areas

 

Videos

  • How to take a Cornell Assessment for Soil Health (C.A.S.H.) soil sample
  • Soil Health – A holistic approach to managing soil for resilience
  • The Art of Soil: Painting with Earth – Homestead Brooklyn video

 

In the news

  • State announces 2024 NYS Community Gardens Soil Testing Program
  • Growth Medium – Cornell Alumni Magazine
  • Cornell artists win global soil painting competition – Cornell Chronicle
  • Dec. 5 global soil painting competition illustrates soil’s vital role – Cornell Chronicle
  • For the love of dirt, Dec. 10 event offers soil painting – Cornell Chronicle
  • How-To Put the Life Back Into Your Soil – Fine Gardening

 

More resources and organizations

  • Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities
  • Cornell Soil Health Program resources page
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) -Soil Quality – NRCS links to: soil quality assessment, soil health literature and publications page.
  • SoilWeb Apps – Access USDA-NRCS detailed soil survey data for most of the United States from smartphone and other devices.
  • SARE Soil Quality– USDA-SARE Professional Development Program-funded site.
  • The Soil Health Institute
  • Soil Health Partnership

 

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  • School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS)
  • College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS)
  • Cornell University

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  • Individual soil analyses
  • Soil Heavy Metal Testing
  • Simple guide for submitting samples
  • Submission Forms
  • Guide to Prohibited, Domestic Regulated and Quarantine Soils

Contacts

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Soil painting

three sisters in soil artists pose with finished canvas

View videos, images and news from our soil painting celebrations

Prohibited Areas for Transport of Soil in the United States

For the latest guide to what areas are Prohibited, Quarantined, or Domestic Regulated visit:

United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) website.

Cornell Soil Health Lab Guide to Prohibited, Domestic Regulated and Quarantine Soils

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