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How Soil Shapes the World: Healing Land and Reclaiming Health with Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery

Mind, Body, and Soil

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Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizers and the Agrochemical Treadmill

Tillage can be too an advantage for farmer this year, but it comes at the price of our ability to sustain production on that land over subsequent years. synthetic nitrogen fertilizers have a similar issue in terms of what they do to the relationship between crops and their microbial symbionts in the soil. We could actually turn it around. We just have to think about the soil differently. And you're going through the adopting a combination of no-till and diverse cover crops and growing a diversity of crops can reverse a lot of the damage in remarkably short order.

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