4th Annual Southern Illinois Soil Health Symposium
Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/05/2026
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Glaciers End
Categories
4th Annual Southern Illinois Soil Health Symposium
Glaciers End, 104 N Print Ave, Marion, IL 62951
Thursday, March 5th, 2025 from 5:30-8pm
The Southern Illinois Soil Health Symposium will be geared towards educating and motivating people to
learn more about and take action around soil and water health and the practices that forward these
causes. The Soil Health focus this year will be centered around Soil Health Basics for Markets and Home
Gardening.
Our first speaker will be Southern Illinois horticulture professor, Amanda Weidhuner.
Our second speaker will be Noah Scalero, owner of BeetRoot Farm in Carbondale, Illinois. BeetRoot
Farm provides over 30 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers to the local Carbondale
community. Scalero is committed to using production practices that are soil building, using no agricultural
chemicals, low-tillage, cover cropping, and on-farm composting. Learn more about BeetRoot Farm here.
Come gather and share with other individuals interested in promoting and building soil health in Southern
Illinois!
Click HERE to register for this event.
The Southern Illinois Farming Alliance (SIFA) is a farmer-driven network, whose focus is to encourage
area farmers, gardeners, and local eaters to learn from one another and is just one of the many
programs Food Works offers. Food Works is a non-profit organization, dedicated to creating a
sustainable food economy in Southern Illinois. If you have any questions about Food Works or want to
learn more about any of Food Works programs which include SIFA, Food Works Winter and Mobile
Farmers Market, and the Southern Illinois Link Hub, visit www.fwsoil.org or feel free to contact Ellen
Esling, ellen@fwsoil.org.
Food Works is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to creating a sustainable food economy in
Southern Illinois. Through farmer training and consumer education, Food Works promotes long-term
farming networks that create healthy soils, healthy food, and healthy communities in the 23 counties
that make up Southern Illinois. (www.fwsoil.org)