The shrinking salad bowl: Houses and malls becoming the fastest-growing crop in California
…as we get hungry we will be motivated as never before to protect soil fertility and water reserves, and learn to feed ourselves without using fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and pesticides. Organic and sustainable farming will no longer be trendy. We will feed ourselves according to our ability to replicate the soil food web’s systems of nutrient and carbon cycling and nature’s biodiversity, and to learn from long-surviving species.
February 15, 2005
There’s more to soil than just dirt
What’s in the ground isn’t dead — there’s a complex system of checks and balances.
September 10, 2004