The ideal garden soil recipe is 40% sand, 40% silt, and 20% clay. But this recipe is missing an essential ingredient: billions upon billions of living things! Life in the soil is what gives it the ability to grow crops. Join Renée-Claude Goulet to learn about what your plants need, and soil-friendly gardening techniques to help soil life thrive – leading to better crops and a healthier garden!

Renée-Claude is a biologist and teacher, working as Science Advisor at the Canada Agriculture Food Museum. She is passionate about sharing her expertise on soil health, gardening, and the science and innovation driving sustainability in agriculture. Always experimenting, Renée-Claude loves to grow unusual crop varieties and to test out different gardening techniques in her own garden and at the museum.