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| { via lexicon of sustainability } |
"THE SOIL FOOD WEB
Our soil teems with a multitude of organisms which provide the necessary work for healthy plants to grow free from disease, pests and infertility. These interconnected interactions and feeding relationships (quite literally "who eats who") help determine the types of nutrients present in soil, its depth and pH, and even the types of plants which can grow.
Dr. Elaine Ingham believes getting a healthy food web back into our dirt will stop poisoning us and turn this sick world around. Our use of toxic chemicals to grow food has greatly imperilled our soil, rivers, lakes, streams and oceans. In many areas of the world, our impact has been massive and unremitting, resulting in the loss of many organisms we don't even know exist (we have only identified 10% of the bacterial and fungal species on the planet). Can nature teach us how to grow enough food to feed an abundance of life sustainability without killing everything in a field simply to grow a single crop? she asks.
ELAINE'S NOTE TO FARMERS:
Making a more vibrant soil food web begins with making good compost. Properly converted organic waste are worth their weight in platinum." ::
