How Alive is my Soil?
Soul Fire Farm’s guide How Alive is my Soil? presents soil testing methods that can be performed in the field by farmers, gardeners, or anyone who desires to understand and appreciate soil from a different perspective.
Healing Clan
“Most of us don’t really know what it is like to run out of water. Our farmers have had some good hints about it. They will tell you when you are out of water, you are out of water. My own story illustrates that.” Soil Health Champion Lynn Montgomery, Placitas, NM
Our Underrated Climate Ally: The Small Water Cycle
Although climate change is a global issue, it can and must be addressed locally. Start by restoring local natural cycles, and the first cycle we look to is water.
Hope Below Our Feet
Peer-Reviewed Publications on Grazing as a Means of Improving Rangeland Ecology, Building Soil Carbon and Mitigating Global Warming (2008 – 2021)
The Importance of Microbes in Providing Climate Mediation
Climate solutions can only be implemented when we change our lens from an industrial, exploitive approach into a bio-system approach.
Best Practices for Community Composting
Community Composting is a simple and immediate opportunity to reduce waste, improve local soil, grow nutritious food and fight climate change. Let’s get started!
Wind Impacts: A Growing Climate Concern
Underreported and underestimated: in New Mexico, soil loss from wind is many times greater than the soil lost due to water erosion.
Soil health can provide solutions to climate change –but farmers need the resources to implement it.
Help garner federal support for soil health.
Soil Care is Climate Repair
Watch siblings Alex (12), Adrian (12) and Athena (10) explain the connection between healthy soil and climate change mitigation!
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.