Good, good, good, good bacteria
By Elisabeth Winkler, Sustainable Food Trust
Recent research on the role of bacteria suggests we need a radical rethink about what makes us healthy
Tag: soil health
Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep
By Clifford Dean Scholz, Green Hand Initiative
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
By Patrick Holden, Sustainable Food Trust
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
By Cat Johnson, Shareable
How much thought do you give to pavement?
The Ground Rules
By Shawndra Miller, Shawndra Miller blog
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
By Lynda Brown, Sustainable Food Trust
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?
By Sena Christian, YES! magazine
“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
By Liz Carlisle, Overgrow the System
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
By Diane Toomey, Yale Environment 360
Chef Dan Barber says the farm-to-table movement that he helped build has failed to support sustainable agriculture on a large scale.