Cultivating landscape success through soil science.

Resilient Landscapes Begin Underground

Healthy landscapes don’t just happen—they are built from the dirt up. At Urban Soil Doctor, we bridge the gap between complex soil science and practical urban land management, ensuring your ground is as resilient as it is productive. Whether you’re revitalising a backyard garden or optimising a major civic green space, we provide the expert analysis and tailored strategies needed to organise and transform tired earth into a thriving ecosystem.

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How we can help

The Urban Soil Doctor specialises in soil testing and serves as a horticultural soil science consultancy, offering expert technical advice for a variety of landscape projects. We collaborate with landscape professionals across multiple industries as well as home gardening enthusiasts. Our extensive portfolio includes a wide range of landscape projects such as parklands, commercial developments, residential landscapes, community parks and gardens, green roofs, street trees, and much more.

Founder, Chantal Milner is an CPSS* accredited Professional Soil Scientist with over 12 years of industry experience in Australia, UK & Saudi Arabia.

Our Services

  • A vertical soil profile showing layers beneath the ground surface with a black measuring tape marked in centimeters, set in a forest with trees and vegetation on the surface.

    Soil Surveying

    Soil surveying for landscape planting. Assessment of physical properties.

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  • A scientist wearing gloves adding black soil or organic material to a petri dish in a laboratory.

    Soil Testing

    Soil, compost, mulch, plant, water, plant pathology testing.

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  • A leafless tree located on a sidewalk in front of a modern building with dark windows and vertical columns.

    Landscape Investigation

    Pathology, herbicide, poor soil management.

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  • Soil Specification Design

    Soil Specification Design

    Tailored soil specifications for your project.

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  • Soil Blend Formulation

    Soil Blend Formulation

    Development of soil blends for soil manufacturers.

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  • Scapeworks Australia

    The Urban Soil Doctor was engaged to sample, test, report, and give recommendation's on a variety of our Landscaping products. The works conducted by Chantal Milner is crucial to our business as one of Sydney's Leading suppliers of soils and mulches. We are grateful to have this company on board.

  • Abdallah Richards, Turf Design Studio.

    Chantal has been a pleasure to work with on many of our recent projects.

    Good soils are crucial to our practise and the advice from the soil doctor is highly valued within our projects.”

  • Intrepid Trio Co

    Best Service Ever!!! We had a project on the mid north coast and were lucky enough to have the team from Urban Soil Doctor visit us on site to determine our requirements. From start to finish, they handled all our requirement needs, flawless, professional and really helped with our deadlines. The knowledge they shared, helped expedite the process in real time. They will now be our first consultation group on all upcoming projects. Really, really grateful guys, thank you so much for understanding our needs.

  • Tiffany Walsh –Narrabeen OOSH

    Chantal assisted us with erosion control which made a huge difference to our lawn!

  • Adam Powell (Private) Eastern Suburbs

    Wow, that was easy. Great outcome and clear advice. Thanks again

  • J.Taylor (Private) NZ

    I am so incredibly thankful that my dying Camellia tree was rescued by The Urban Soil Doctor. It is now flourishing and looking better than ever.

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