I highly recommend the services of Environmental Analysis Laboratory in Lismore. They are fully accredited with NATA and associated with the Southern Cross University. But more importantly, from a biological perspective they have close ties with the Soil Fooweb Institute.

They do a full range of tests from water and chemicals through to soils, leaves and composts. While the attached document below gives you instructions on how to conduct a test, note that I also analyse soil and leaf tests.

If you are interested in having your soil or leaf tests analysed with recommendations based on biological approaches feel free to email me, or simply mention From The Soil Up when you send in your sample. Your sample will automatically be tested using the Nutrient Therapy Soil Analysis - NT-Pack-01 - ($93.50inc per sample) or Nutrient Therapy Leaf Analysis - NP-Pack-01 - ($66inc per sample) and the results will be emailed directly to me, though you can request a copy be forwarded to yourself as well.

 From the Soil Up will then invoice you for the lab analysis as well as the recommendations (Soil Therapy $38.50inc per sample or Leaf Therapy $27.50inc per sample) - so don't send money to EAL.

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Read further for soil sampling suggestions.

Suppliers include

DL & FM Smith (Guyra NSW),

Fertile Farm (Gunnedah NSW),

Gaia Consultancy (Forbes NSW)