Partnerships
Resilient communities steward resilient ecosystems.
Partnerships and collaboration are cornerstones of the Healthy Soil Collaborative’s mission in the Northern Forest. Jumping worms span multiple environments, cultivated and wild, across different soils, different states, and two countries. So our approach needs to be just as broad and varied.
When we engage with stakeholders who care about their soil, our science becomes stronger, more creative, and more effective. In turn, our stakeholders are able to take an active role in helping contribute to and shape our research, and ensure that their needs are understood and addressed.
These partnerships foster not just good science—but also hope, motivation, and resilience.
Right now, the most impactful way you can help is to donate. Research, even small communities pilot studies, requires funding. Every single dollar helps us get closer to finding answers.
Partnership with the Healthy Soil Collaborative can take many forms.
We work with:
Individuals, such as homeowners and gardeners, on community-based trials in their own gardens and neighborhoods.
Nurseries, garden centers, and compost/mulch businesses to help them prevent and manage jumping worms in their products. We are also actively investigating effective and affordable methods of jumping worm eradication in retail products, and need partners to help us explore these methods in real-world settings.
Outside labs and individual researchers who share our mission to preserve soil.
Resource managers, watershed organizations, green industry lobbying groups, and public gardens to observe impacts and jumping worm mitigation trials on critical public and private lands.
State and regional government and non-governmental bodies on public outreach and policy guidance.
We are also looking for small farmers who are practicing soil-building agriculture, and forest products industries to better understand the impact of worms in these important settings as well.
Partnership and collaboration can also mean supporting us through donation. It’s unavoidable that research requires funding. Every dollar helps.
When we are actively recruiting for a new participatory science study for individuals, we will post in our Updates page.
Our Partners
Collaborating Researchers
Maryam Nouri-Aiin - University of Vermont
Kyle Wickings - Cornell University
Laura Eierman - State University of New York at Cortland
Collaborating Organizations and Agencies
Canadian Forest Service
Master Gardeners of Minnesota, Vermont, Connecticut
Natural Areas Conservancy, New York
New Brunswick Invasive Species Council
New Brunswick Museum
Nova Scotia Invasive Species Council
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Siuslaw Model Forest (Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties)
Three Rivers Park District
University of Minnesota Arboretum
Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association
Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources