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Rewilding Body, Mind, and Soil

December 15, 2020July 8, 2015 by Sophie Laggan

Soil is Mother Earth’s gut – its microorganisms digest her food while her flora produce the necessary bacteria and yeasts to keep her healthy.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Food & Water Tags biodiversity, building resilient food systems, rewilding, soil health Leave a comment

Good, good, good, good bacteria

December 15, 2020June 4, 2015 by Elisabeth Winkler

Recent research on the role of bacteria suggests we need a radical rethink about what makes us healthy

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Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep

December 15, 2020April 24, 2015 by Clifford Dean Scholz

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.

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Soil is the Stomach of the Plant

December 15, 2020April 21, 2015 by Patrick Holden

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.

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How to Free the Soil by Depaving

December 15, 2020April 20, 2015 by Cat Johnson

How much thought do you give to pavement?

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The Ground Rules

December 15, 2020April 14, 2015 by Shawndra Miller

Meet “renegade researcher” Nancy Klehm. She’s on a mission to transform our thinking about waste—and to transform our waste into healthy soil.

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The Roots of your Health: the Science of Soil

December 15, 2020March 9, 2015 by Lynda Brown

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’.

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Women Over 65 Own Nearly a Third of Iowa’s Farmland—Can They Prevent the Next Dust Bowl?

December 15, 2020February 26, 2015 by Sena Christian

“Being invisible does two things: You think you don’t have any responsibilities [and] you’re just left out.”

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You Are What You Eat – And What It Eats Too

December 15, 2020January 29, 2015 by Liz Carlisle

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.

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How to Make Farm-to-Table A Truly Sustainable Movement

December 15, 2020September 17, 2014 by Diane Toomey

Chef Dan Barber says the farm-to-table movement that he helped build has failed to support sustainable agriculture on a large scale.

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