soilhealth.app: Community science platform for social learning in agriculture

Soilhealth.app is a web app that offers a questioning and reporting framework to support locally driven, participatory projects carried out by groups that are learning to monitor and manage wholes such as watershed function, soil health, and local economics. A project of the Soil Carbon Coalition, it offers a guide to learn how to work with the most powerful planetary force: coupled carbon and water cycling. It is meant to manage what groups want and need based on biophysical feedback, rather than manage against what they don’t want. The App was developed by Peter Donovan, who has a background in forestry, farm, and ranch work, sheep and cattle herding, Holistic Management and decision making, rangeland monitoring, and community development. For more information see the website to view a description of the App and examples of projects that have used it.