For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems

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They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. So much interesting information, peppered with stories and yet sometimes a little too light on the science behind the claims. I listened to the audio and the biggest problem I had was not following closely enough and missing a vital chunk of information (easily solved by backing up to re-listen). We are looking for a way to make things better on our farm and this book covered many different locales and situations, explaining the science simply and with a passion that can work to move those set in their ways, to better ways.

Let’s say, I know my farmer but I still want to do something on a bigger scale to turn things around because won’t our dollars and won’t our choices impact that business? Along with sharing key soil health principles and restoration tools, For the Love of Soil provides land managers with an action plan to kickstart their soil resource's well-being, no matter the scale. Ancestral Supplements makes New Zealand sourced nose to tail, organ meats, bone marrow and intestines in simple convenient gelatin capsules. Learn how to: - Triage soil health and act to fast-track soil and plant health-Build healthy resilient soil systems-Develop a deeper understanding of microbial and mineral synergies-Read what weeds and diseases are communicating about soil and plant health-Create healthy, productive and profitable landscapes.

For the Love of Soil is packed to the rafters with experiences and observations from some of the most extreme growing climates around the world. There are market gardeners in there, raches, and broadacre farmers talking about what they’re doing now and how many of them have been doing this for decades.

If you’re interested in greenhouse gases or water quality or food quality or fishery beds, it doesn’t matter. After the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, they went in a year later to find out what was the fate of that oil. Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsense wisdom back to the subject he started his career covering: relationships. In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence.I got into commercial viniculture and got interested in the microbiology of what I was creating and how to create different types of blends of whim castings for an avocado producer compared to a strawberry producer compared to pasture. Do you feel weighed down by stress and pressure, held back by judgement and lack of opportunity, and critcised by everyone – including yourself?

For years many of us involved in regenerative agriculture have been touting the soil health - plant health - animal health – human health connection but no one has tied them all together like Nicole does in “For the Love of Soil”! Nicole modestly claims that the information in the book is not new thinking, but her resynthesis of the lessons she has learned and refined in collaboration with regenerative land-managers is new, and it is powerful. When you mentioned greenhouse gas emissions, I couldn’t help but start thinking about climate change and people thinking they need to eat less meat or go vegan to heal the planet.

It ties into my thinking around the value of intuition and how the subconscious knows a lot more than what our main conscious brain does. New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter. I didn’t end up having meningitis but one of the things they do when they think you have that is they give you a lumbar puncture. I’m not trying to push product but it’s something that we can use in our garden to do the same thing, so it will grab and hold toxins, heavy metals, and it will feed your beneficial microbes. Our global agricultural production systems are frequently at war with ecosystem health and Mother Nature,” notes Terry McCosker of Resource Consulting Services in Australia.