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

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With decades of experience in regenerative soil systems and their management, agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers solutions to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical crisis.

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”! The success Masters enjoys might be her conservative treatment protocols; she is a believer in just ". Just because something has got an organic label on it doesn’t mean that it’s not industrially produced. 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"! 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.

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. Whereas, these new meters are new infrared, spectroscopy, so they need to be correlated with those specific crops. I found the principles presented in the book applicable to both the home garden as well as large scale agriculture. I want this book on my bookshelf to remind us how far we came and how we brought our planetary health back through healthy soil systems. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish.

Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Nicole Masters.She has a formal background in ecology, soil science and organizational learning studies in New Zealand. She tells her personal story of how an herbicide jeopardized her health, though she did not know it at first. As we start to lose that microbiome in the soil, we no longer have the enzyme-producing organisms, the hormone-producing organisms, or organisms that are creating those vitamins. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.