 Hello, I'm Mick and in this short video I'll demonstrate how you can assess whether you are losing or accumulating soil. Soil is the basis of biosystems and without healthy soils we cannot grow food and many other things we depend on. For this simple method all we will need is five threaded bolts, three for each of your zones and two for our control sites, tape measure and tape, we use tape but you can also use spray paint. We then mark each threaded bolt at half a meter as that is how deep they should go in the soil to be properly fixed. We select three spots to reflect each zone that we are studying, preferably along contour lines or swales of sediment traps. Also select two control spots within fields that are being managed conventionally. In those locations push the poles halfway into the ground so that it's in there securely and won't move on its own. Mark the level at which the pole hits the ground with spray paint or tape. Then return to the poles one year later and mark the current soil level.