Using the Loan box to further SocEnv Mission

Using the Loan box to further SocEnv Mission

The West Peckham Women’s Institute covers a wide area of rural west Kent and has a strong environmental team. This team aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and to encourage members to take positive action to protect the environment. The national Women’s...
Celebrating World Soils Day 2025

Celebrating World Soils Day 2025

My colleague and I are both undertaking a Soil Science MSc Apprenticeship at Cranfield University, through our employer, and so we decided to run a World Soil Day (5th Dec) event at the office with the help of a soil box from BSSS. The first half of the session...
Primary School Session in Hawaii

Primary School Session in Hawaii

Over the winter holidays of 2025, Dr Samuel Hibdige and Dr Emily Guest, both postdoctoral researchers at Cranfield University and Early Career members of the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS), had the pleasure of delivering an interactive soil science lesson to a...
Mud Matters series of communications regarding healthy soil

Mud Matters series of communications regarding healthy soil

I arranged to collect the Soil Box myself as the British Society of Soil Science head office is nearby. I’d been wondering what sort of a ‘box’ this was and was concerned if it would be too large or too heavy. Max brought it to my vehicle in a cardboard box so I...