Getting Started with a Microscope for Soils

Elaine takes us through everything that you will ever need to know on how to use your microscope effectively. We’ve put it together this way so you will quickly get a good overview of all the lessons in front of you but you will also gain the right amount of knowledge in the right amount of time.

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What You Will Learn…

After watching these 7 lessons through a series of online videos, Elaine takes us through everything that you will ever need to know on how to use your microscope effectively.

To fast track your learning and have support ‘Regen Ray” Milidoni hosted 7 weeks of live zoom calls to help us all learn together how to use a microscope on our farms and gardens. This is now included in the course as bonus material.

Don’t have a microscope? Don’t worry, while having a microscope will be more satisfying, we will show you how to borrow one or buy one with our prefered partner with a special deal that we have negotiated just for you.

With or without a microscope this course & live calls will be exciting and we all get to learn about living soils together.

Who is this course for:

Farmers
Food Growers
Keen home gardeners
Compost & Compost Tea makers
Anyone who wants to see the life in soils
If you want to discover more about how soil is mirrored in our gut biome

In fact this is for anyone who wants to evaluate their own soil biology using a microscope – an essential step to healthy soils.

Watch your soils come to life!

Course Content:

Lesson 1: Introduction to the Microscope

Guide to selecting a Microscope
How to set up microscope
Parts and functions of a typical microscope
Microscope best practice
How to collect a soil sample
How to look after your microscope

Lesson 1.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Lesson 2: Sample Preparation

Diluting & Preparing Slides
How to Focus correctly on your Slide and which magnification to use

Lesson 2.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Lesson 3: Morphology of Bacteria

True bacteria, Actinobacteria,
Spirilla, Spirochetes,
Anaerobic Bacteria as indicators

Lesson 3.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Lesson 4: Morphology of Fungi

Decomposer fungi,
Mycorrhizal fungi,
Diameters, Color

Lesson 4.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Lesson 5: Morphology of Algae, Protozoa & Nematodes

Algae, Pollen, Parasites, Microarthropods
Protozoa; Flagellates, Amoebae, Ciliates
Nematodes; bacterial-feeding, fungal-feeding, predatory, root-feeding

Lesson 5.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Lesson 6: Morphology of Other Materials in the Soil

Identifying other materials such as cellulose, plant debris, thread, diatom shells, mineral particles.
Distinguishing between other materials & organisms

Lesson 6.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Lesson 7: Quantification (Counting Organisms)

Sampling considerations,
Replication,
Determining diameters, lengths, numbers

Lesson 7.1: – Replay -Group Coaching Call with Regen Ray Milidoni

Course Quiz

A self correcting quiz that will test your skills

Course Presenter:

Group Calls with 'Regen Ray' Milidoni

‘Regen Ray’ is a soil lover and partnered with Farming Secrets to take their business into the next generation of online learning, launching the Soil Learning Centre during the pandemic. He now works with soil mentors from around the world to create educational programs all about soil. He has been teaching people about soils for years through his online classrooms, webinars and his podcast, Secrets of the Soil. On his podcast, he interviews experts in their field and talks about important topics all about the soil.