Citizens become soil experts and, using their own natural senses, are empowered to assess and improve its quality and fertility.
The relationship between healthy soil and healthy communities is recognized.
Soils made infertile by urbanization are healed by informed and caring citizens and once again offer fertile opportunities for healthy local food.
City decision makers will be able to better identify suitable areas for urban gardening.
To raise awareness about soil quality, fertility and regeneration.
To demonstrate the correlation between healthy soil and healthy communities.
To get as many people as possible involved in soil testing.
To empower citizens to transform from passive witnesses of environmental decay to active climate protectors.
To demonstrate that everybody can easily read their environment and interact with it, mitigating climate change.
To raise awareness for creative soil usages; to reconnect with surrounding greenspaces and locate areas where gardening is possible.
OSA will consist of an educational website and co-learning centre presenting soil testing guidelines via online tutorials.
A series of workshops (on or offline according to the Pandemic lockdown situation) will teach citizens how to make observations, test soil, and upload data to our online platform.
Citizens will be trained to interpret results, draw conclusions and stay connected to the online community for remediation knowledge-sharing.