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Soil Superheroes

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Cartoon-style garden landscape, focusing on the soil under the ground. Various colourful characters such as such as a mole, an earthworm, and compost smile to the camera, dressed as superheroes.

Beneath your feet, a league of superheroes are working tirelessly to make life on Earth possible — yet few of us understand the significance of their “dirty work.”

Soil Superheroes provides visitors with an underground perspective on the importance of soil science and conservation. Meet the star players — such as Captain Clay, The Mole, and Wonder Worm — and learn how their superpowers not only provide humans with food and medicine, but also clean the water we drink and protect our climate!

Through playful imagery and a colourful storyline, these small-but-mighty characters help us answer the questions, “What is soil, anyway? Why is it so important?” They also remind us that human activities — like farming practices and what we buy, reuse, and recycle — affects soil health around the world.

Developed by the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, this interactive exhibition makes the difference between healthy and unhealthy soil much clearer than mud!

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Check out these educational resources to learn more about how soil health impacts our everyday lives.

A colourful illustration depicts a cutaway shot of a soil column, with a group of soil superhero cartoon characters both above and below the Earth’s surface. The superheroes are wearing capes and eye bandanas, and are fashioned to represent sand, silt, and clay soil particles, an earthworm, a mole, fungus, bacteria, poop, a leaf and a dead bug.

Soil Superheroes - Educational Activity Kit

Hands holding soil with a small growing plant

A Handful of Soil - Educational Activity Kit

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some soil in a plastic container, a shovel and a few seed packets

Mini Greenhouse Activity

A young female farmer on a hydroponic farm inspecting a lettuce crop.

Agriculture and the Environment - Educational Activity Kit

Don’t Forget to Visit...

Check out these spaces during your next visit to the Museum to learn more about the widespread impacts of soil health.

text on image: Soild Labe: More than just dirt!

Discovery Zone: Soil Lab

The exterior signs of the Discovery Park outdoor exhibition

Discovery Park — Outdoor Exhibition

A green space with colorful planters in the background and a reader rail with photos of insects in the front.

Soil Lab Garden

Our Partners

Fertilizer Canada
Canadian Seed Growers' Association
CN
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Glacier Farm Media
Soil Conservation Council of Canada
Nutrients for Life
Canadian Commission for UNESCO

Natural Resources Canada

Farm Credit Canada

With generous support through the Ingenium Foundation

The McLean Foundation
TD Friends of the Environment Foundation

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