The Healthy Soil Collaborative is Live!

We are so happy to be able to finally say that the Healthy Soil Collaborative is officially launched!

We are a group of researchers, outreach specialists, and communicators at institutions across the northeast, the upper midwest, and southern Canada. Our goal: find solutions to the problem of jumping worms. (In short: Invasive earthworms that are eating our critical landscapes out from under us and putting our water, climate, forest industries, and gardens at risk).

Our hope is that we can do this with you: the gardener, the passionate wildlife and plant enthusiast, the forester, the nursery owner, the scientist, the compost-maker, the land trustee, the forest industry leader, the environmental decision maker. Jumping worms are a complex problem, and so they need complex solutions and collaboration with the community of stakeholders to get to a viable set of solutions and best practices. We hope we may also provide a case study to others who are responding to unprecedented challenges to our natural world. What can we learn from our experience finding solutions to a significant invasive problem to a large ecosystem?

This website is a place where we will share information about the impacts of jumping worms, post new research and ideas, and connect with people who care about our soils. We cannot do this without your help.

This site will continue to evolve and grow. In the future we will add social media platforms, expand the resource library, and announce community/participatory science opportunities.

Our goal is that through research, on-the-ground conservation, and collaboration with a diverse group of like-minded stakeholders, that we can help preserve critical ecosystems that support native biodiversity, clean air and water, food production, and our well-being. It all starts with healthy soil.