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Soil Health and Leadership Training Opportunities

Workshop Announcemnt

The 2025 Soil Health and Agrivoltaics Leadership Workshop will be held at Delaware State University Dover Campus during June 2-27, 2025. The 4-wk summer soil health training workshop is funded through a USDA-NIFA project to prepare students and agricultural workers with tiptop soil health evaluation and management techniques and leadership skills through intensive experiential learning and outreach activities and events. Each successful trainee will receive a $2,400 stipend plus other essential supports.

A tentative schedule of the four-week intensive soil health training workshop can be found here WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

To apply, complete the application form and submit it to Dr. Mingxin Guo via email (mguo@desu.edu).


SORC Soil Health Evaluation
2023 Workshop trainees evaluating soil health at Smyrna Outreach and Research Center
Visiting Clark Seeds Inc
2023 Workshop trainees learning leadership skills from Mr. Mitchell Clark
SORC Soil Health Evaluation
2024 Workshop trainees evaluating soil health at Smyrna Outreach and Research Center
Leadership cultivation
2024 Workshop trainees learning leadership skills at Clark Seeds Inc
Clark tractor
2024 Workshop trainees visiting Clark Seeds Farm
simone silent
Leadership practice
Dover Small Farm
2025 Workshop trainees visiting a local small farm
Planting
2025 Workshop trainees planting seedlings into soil beds
Clark Farm
2025 Workshop trainees visiting Clark Seeds Farm
SORC
2025 Workshop trainees assessing soil health at SORC Farm
Agrivoltaics
2025 Workshop trainees visiting Rutgers Agrivoltics Demonstration Unit at RAREC
Agrivoltaics
2025 Workshop trainees visiting Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (Bridgeton, NJ)
Workshop graduation
2024 Soil Health workshop graduation and certification
Workshop graduation
2025 Soil Health workshop graduation and certification
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Dr. Mingxin Guo
Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Delaware State University
1200 N. DuPont Highway
Dover, DE 19901
Email:mguo@desu.edu
Phone:+1 (302) 857 6479
Fax:+1 (302) 857 6405
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