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The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil: Improve Water Retention and Infiltration; Support Microorganisms and Other Soil Life; Capture More Sunlight; ... Crops, and Carbon-Based Soil Amendments
Healthy soil is key to sustaining life on Earth. While more and more people are starting to see the need for soil restoration, there is very little understanding of just how it can be accomplished. There is a rapidly emerging demand for a “how to” manual for soil restoration. Dale Strickler is an expert on building healthy soil and restoring degraded soil, and in The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil , he presents the science of soil, along with proven methods of restoring depleted soil and agricultural practices from around the world that continue to build soil, rather than cause it to deteriorate.
Strickler provides a solid foundation in the science of healthy soil, explaining how soil has become so degraded over time and the dire consequences for the human species, not just in terms of food scarcity but also the social, health, and environmental consequences of growing food in poor soil. He addresses the chemical, physical, and biological principles behind soil function, and presents actual farming practices that can be used to regenerate soil, techniques and strategies for remediating contaminated soil, and agriculture systems both past and present that functioned to build soil, such as the ancient chinampas systems of Mexico and the permaculture systems of today.
This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Strickler provides a solid foundation in the science of healthy soil, explaining how soil has become so degraded over time and the dire consequences for the human species, not just in terms of food scarcity but also the social, health, and environmental consequences of growing food in poor soil. He addresses the chemical, physical, and biological principles behind soil function, and presents actual farming practices that can be used to regenerate soil, techniques and strategies for remediating contaminated soil, and agriculture systems both past and present that functioned to build soil, such as the ancient chinampas systems of Mexico and the permaculture systems of today.
This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
- GenresGardening
349 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 26, 2021
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November 3, 2022
Awesome reference
Really interesting book that was well written and easy to digest. It does seem that it was based around more large scale farming rather than a homestead sized garden, but the information crosses over easily. Definitely recommend to anyone who is just getting started or to anyone who still tills regularly or thinks that the ground needs to rest.
Really interesting book that was well written and easy to digest. It does seem that it was based around more large scale farming rather than a homestead sized garden, but the information crosses over easily. Definitely recommend to anyone who is just getting started or to anyone who still tills regularly or thinks that the ground needs to rest.
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