Healthy Roots & Clean Boots:

A Family Friendly Soil Health Event

​This family friendly soil health event will feature interactive displays and demonstrations focused on sustainable agriculture practices. There is no cost to attend the event and a free will offering meal will be provided, with proceeds going towards local soil health programming. Some of the activities will include a rainfall simulator, cover crop plots, water erosion table, wind erosion simulator, equipment displays, ask-a-soil health farmer, edible infiltration, seeding drone demo, and more!
Event Details
Cost: FREE!

Date: July 30th

Time: 5:00-8:00pm

Location: 1015 70th Ave SE, Murdock, MN 56271

Meal: Fresh grilled hamburgers, bakery cookies, chips

*PLUS*

Mini Donut Food Truck and Malt Machine

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Interactive Family Activities

  • Ask a Soil Health Farmer (Katie Johnson, Luke Sanders, Brody Lindquist, Brady Wulf, Scott Olson, Jake Allpress, Ed Hegland, Larry Mahoney, Doug Schliep)
  • Edible Soil Infiltration
  • Edible Soil Layers
  • Manure Management
  • Augmented Reality Sandbox
  • AgCentric Technology Trailer
  • Find Your Watershed
  • Water Erosion Sandbox
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AR Sandbox
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AgCentric Technology Trailer
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Rainfall Simulator
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Slake Test

Demonstrations

  • Seeding Drone
  • ​Rainfall Simulator
  • Wind Erosion Simulator
  • Slump Test, Slake Test, and Jar Infiltration
  • ​Soil Pit
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Wind Erosion Demo

Displays

  • Soil Your Undies
  • Native Plant Interactive Root Display
  • ​Cover Crop Root Display
  • Equipment Display (no-till drill, strip till machine, vertical tillage machine, manure spreader, silage equipment, tractors, combines)
  • Cover Crop Plots (14 different plots!)
  • Kernza Plot
  • Soil Health Tunnel​
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Soil Health Tunnel
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Soil Warrior
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Kernza

Map of event location:

Swift Soil and Water Conservation District/USDA is an Equal Opportunity Service Provider and Employer
​Swift SWCD  -----  205 14th St. N, Benson, MN 56215  -----  320.289.6033
Our Mission: The Swift County Soil and Water Conservation District is committed to providing high quality technical, financial, and educational assistance to landowners and land managers of Swift County by promoting sound stewardship of our land and water resources.