HEALTHY SOIL

In the documentary ”Into the Soil” we follow Brigid LeFevre, who runs a community supported agriculture operation (CSO) in Järna, Sweden. In her biodynamic vegetable garden she focuses on fermenting the harvest in order to enrich it with nutritious lactic acid bacteria. Brigid grew up in an anthroposophically inspired Camphill community in Northern Ireland where volunteers lived and worked together with people with special needs. It was a self-sufficient community where the l

Did you know that soil is home to 60% of all species on Earth? Soil is vital for plant growth, supports biodiversity, filters water, and keeps ecosystems balanced. But in Kenya, worsening droughts have left the soil damaged and dry, threatening both nature and local communities. In their 20th mission, Plant Wild are supporting a surprisingly simple method to help transform these barren lands into thriving ecosystems. Watch the video here!

Soil Algae is one of the most underrated soil microbes in the soil food web. It is thought to be the key to a healthy living soil system. The accepted level is approximately 20% of the soils total biomass. Watch the full video here:

As a gardener and in the garden workshops I have been leading over the past eight years, I often hear people ask questions about dirt, meaning the ground in which we grow food. But if you call what is below our feet “ground,” the traditional term here in Newfoundland, or “dirt” as many still do, you are contributing to a dangerous illusion. Why is this an illusion? Well, in our ignorant bland labelling of pieces of the world (reinforced by the basic structure of English and m

New research published in the Yale Environment Review reports one-third of the topsoil in the US Midwest and NE is now gone, lost to erosion, compaction and salination. This has serious implications for all of us because our civilization relies on and is defined by a narrow selection of grain crops (wheat, corn, barley, oats) and soy on which we depend for the core of our food supply. Read more HERE.