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Certificate of Achievement

Nemanja Filipović
has completed the following course:

CITIZEN SCIENCE: LIVING SOILS, GROWING FOOD

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE AND GROW OBSERVATORY

This course explored current issues in the global food system and introduced learners to food growing
techniques that can help reduce soil degradation and regenerate soils and ecosystems. Participants
were able to take part in a collective experiment and learn to design a robust research experiment.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Dr Drew Hemment Mel Woods

Research Fellow, Reader in Creative Intelligence,
University of Dundee GROW Observatory

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 Nemanja Filipović
has completed the following course:

CITIZEN SCIENCE: LIVING SOILS, GROWING FOOD

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE AND GROW OBSERVATORY

This course explored current issues in the global • Designing a robust research experiment to
food system and introduced learners to food investigate the effectiveness of regenerative
growing techniques that can help reduce soil practices
degradation and regenerate soils and • Finding a three-sisters crop combination
ecosystems. Topics covered included: • (polycultures) to improve the productivity of
Regenerative food growing practices: exploring your plot and the health of your soil
the effectiveness of approaches like mulching,
no dig, cover crops, creating wildlife friendly
areas and more. • Citizen science projects and
designing a robust research experiment to test
different growing practices.
STUDY REQUIREMENT
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Explore key approaches to food growing that
can ameliorate soil degradation and regenerate
soils and ecosystems
• Identify regenerative practices that you could
implement in your growing site, and learn how to
evaluate them to improve your growing.
• Describe key research principles and their
importance in designing robust growing
experiments for your garden and your
community
• Carry out key measurements to assess soils and
soil nutrients
• Gain direct experience of the research process
by carrying out a growing experiment
SYLLABUS
• Citizen Science and Fieldwork
• The GROW Observatory
• Regenerative practices for food growers -
exploring the effectiveness of approaches like
mulching, no dig, cover crops, creating wildlife
friendly areas and more

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