Rewilding Body, Mind, and Soil
Soil is Mother Earth’s gut – its microorganisms digest her food while her flora produce the necessary bacteria and yeasts to keep her healthy.
soil health
Good, good, good, good bacteria
Recent research on the role of bacteria suggests we need a radical rethink about what makes us healthy
Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep
Missing from our understanding has been how the deep dreams of the soil ultimately nourish our own, and how our reckless pattern of disturbing our soils eventually disrupts our ability to sleep as well as the capacity of our sleeping bodies to dream themselves anew.
Soil is the Stomach of the Plant
The dark mysterious world of soil biology is rarely brought to the daylight of people’s understanding, even in the organic movement, due to the assumption that this is reserved for the in-depth investigations of soil scientists.
How to Free the Soil by Depaving
How much thought do you give to pavement?
The Ground Rules
Meet “renegade researcher” Nancy Klehm. She’s on a mission to transform our thinking about waste—and to transform our waste into healthy soil.
The Roots of your Health: the Science of Soil
Earlier this year, US soil microbiologist Elaine Ingham, of Soil Foodweb Inc. fame, caused several gasps at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with her controversial lecture, ‘The Roots of your Profits’.
Women Over 65 Own Nearly a Third of Iowa’s Farmland—Can They Prevent the Next Dust Bowl?
“Being invisible does two things: You think you don’t have any responsibilities [and] you’re just left out.”
You Are What You Eat – And What It Eats Too
We may be getting closer to integrating the science of agroecology and the science of nutrition, toward a holistic approach that would follow nutrients from the soil, to plants and animals, to human bodies.
How to Make Farm-to-Table A Truly Sustainable Movement
Chef Dan Barber says the farm-to-table movement that he helped build has failed to support sustainable agriculture on a large scale.