An 'exclusive' underground group of Watershed Landcare members, known as the Mudgee Microscope Group, have collated results as part of a soil health project funded through the Central West Catchment Management Authority Small Grants for Community Groups program.

The grant enabled members of the Microscope Group to quantify how soil health properties are affected by groundcover management in pastures and vineyards.

An article on this was published in the Mudgee Guardian: Groundcover scores highly for soil health

See the attachments below for the full table of results. Also, check out the Soil Health Card - a simple 10-step method of assessing soil health (the method we used in the project.

Here's a snapshot of the results from two participating vineyards which highlights the impact of groundcover on soil health and carbon levels: