Understanding the Connection Between Soil Fungi and Orchard Health
Soil fungi provide trace elements that are foundational for complete plant nutrition and plant health.
Embrace the Chaos
A Chaos Garden is a functional and fun expression of the soil health principle: maximizing diversity!
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch
A new book by Soil Health Champion A.T. Cole not only tells the story of the ranch but details how everyone can pursue their climate stabilization potential.
Farming with Soil Life
Check out Xerces Society’s handbook and online course for supporting soil invertebrates and soil health!
A Mosaic of Green and Blue
Creating a patchwork of improved microclimates can create more rainfall in an entire region.
Compost: Small Farm-Style
Composting doesn’t have to be time-consuming or expensive, especially for a small farm. Ben Hartman, author of The Lean Fam, shares his strategies.
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
Anne Biklé and David Montgomery share 5 key insights from their new book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health.
Turn Barren Soil into Black Gold: 9 Simple Steps to Sheet Mulching
Sheet mulch can be as simple as three layers –cardboard, compost, and wood chips. It’s an easy, inexpensive and fast method to regenerate bare soil.
The Water-Harvesting Soil-Carbon Sponge
There is a powerful, beneficial partnership between the hydrologic cycle circulating life-giving water and the carbon-based, soil-building, carbon-cycling life in the soil—known as the soil-carbon sponge.
Beyond the Impossible
Even in highly contentious settings there are ways forward, if we can acknowledge and respect our shared humanity. Read about the consensus process in this excerpt from The Reindeer Chronicles, a new book by award-winning science journalist Judith Schwartz.