Soil : the incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy

Evans, Matthew, 1966- author.

Book 2021

What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed. For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and debased it, by over-clearing, over-...

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Farm management

Soil ecology

Soil management

Soil science

Soils

Soils Environmental aspects

Sustainability

Sustainable agriculture

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ISBN:

9781922351418
9781911668190
1922351415
1911668196

Description:

xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262) and index

Contents:

What you eat is made out of thin air (and a tiny bit of dirt)
Soil, the Earth's miracle skin
The Earth's kidneys : when good soil turns bad
Plants don't eat dirt : the underground economy
Here, there and everywhere : The 'old friends' hypothesis
Look after the soil, and the plants look after us
Nutritional dark matter
Here today, gone tomorrow
Big ones, small ones, skinny ones, fat ones : worms
Bombs, germs and plants : 100 years of fast fixes creating big problems
How the Green Revolution is turning the world brown
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind
Burying charcoal and building soil
Weeds : what we can see tells us about what we can't
Home gardeners rock
Compost, compost, and compost
If it quacks, is it a duck?
We are all, temporarily, not soil
Keep them dawgies movin'
A grain of truth : regenerative agriculture
What's the beef with methane?
Money in the bank
They germinated a seed on the Moon
Loaves and fishes : feeding a hungry world

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3308736

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