The Regional Soil Assembly is a process of assembling different regional collectives, networks, institutions and citizens, sharing their histories, ideas, know-how and organizational, pedagogical, agricultural, artistic and scientific capacities around living soils and the regeneration of damaged or destroyed soils.

A soil assembly is a terroir, an assembly that recognizes that the soil is a determining factor in the originality and quality of what it does. Conversely, it also acknowledges that this originality is defined by a human community, which, over the course of its history, has built up a set of distinctive cultural traits, knowledge and practices, based on a system of interactions between the natural environment and human factors. A soil assembly is therefore not just a soil, a substrate that qualifies products, but also an associated community that works it, reveals its originality and gives it its typicality. It’s an artifact, the slow product of centuries of effort, marking the collective work of numerous companion species.

Soil Assemblies aim to replicate themselves, to establish in different regions and localities assemblages of educational, agricultural, activist, scientific and artistic initiatives.

A Soil Assembly is an actor of the territory where it is organized.

Regional partners across Europe are laying the foundations for the fourth International Soil Assembly, to be held in Berlin, 23-25 January 2027 at Spore Initiative, with the support of SoilTribes and the European Union.