You've heard about the Global Soil Survey, and maybe you've joined this project. If so, thank you very much! You are contributing some incredibly useful data that is being used to improve turfgrass fertilization around the world. And you are also getting soil test data which you can use for your site.

Have you wondered where these samples are coming from? We anonymize the data, of course, so one can't tell which data are from which site. The list of participants so far is here, and it is a broad range, from high-budget private to 9-hole public courses, from major championship venues to military facilities, and pretty much every type of course in-between. 

To join this exciting citizen science project, purchase your Global Soil Survey kit here. The data from the soil at your site, the soil in which the turfgrass is performing the best, will be used to improve and refine soil nutrient guidelines for turfgrass all around the world. Plus you get soil test data!

For more about this project and related work, see:

• 2014 Global Soil Survey report and data
• Global Soil Survey participants
• Global Soil Survey update, October 2014 from PACE Turf
• Global Soil Survey Facebook page
• MLSN guidelines summary page
• Sustainable Soil: going global from GCM