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

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For the Love of Soil' is a land manager’s roadmap to healthy soil, revitalized food systems in challenging times. This book equips producers with knowledge, skills and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm profits. I spent recovering by applying the foundations teachings and my life has dramatically turned around. I have never experienced such vitality and happiness in my entire life. I am so grateful for WAPF. I have become so passionate about physical and mental health as well as farmer rights. I’m so eager to become involved in sharing knowledge about these things.” That’s Eden from Leesburg, Virginia.

Here I am, just one person. Let’s say, I know my farmer but I still want to do something on a bigger scale to turn things around because won’t our dollars and won’t our choices impact that business? Healthy soil. It’s not just what we need for potted plants. It’s what we all need to survive. Nicole Masters, agro-ecologist and author of “For the Love of Soil,” explains on today’s podcast just why our health and the health of the soil are so inextricably intertwined. What they found was all these methanotrophic organisms were gobbling away. They were like, “This is awesome.” That oil spill obviously had massive consequences at that time and impacts on everything but those organisms are going to come in. It’s food and carbon. Methane is a carbon source. It’s food for life so they’re not going to let it go to waste. Soil: Soil and water and cabin are intimately related. And as we start to break down those links, there are consequences above ground.No. That was the interesting thing. My life has been dedicated to how we get chemicals out of the environment and out of the food chain. I had this poisoning that was in my body and I had no idea. It ties into my thinking around the value of intuition and how the subconscious knows a lot more than what our main conscious brain does. My body knew that I had been poisoned. I just didn’t know. The audiobook is read by Nicole herself and is like having a ridiculously knowledgeable friend walk you through the science and then engage you with fun anecdotes.

Another problem with this book is it is highly anecdotal, which is fine; in and of themselves, anecdotes aren't bad. To her credit it is very well researched and footnoted with tons of scientific peer reviewed papers that support some of her science. But the anecdotes seem to be mostly with all her customers that she consulted for that she writes about. Virtually none of them have comparative data demonstrating what exactly she did, and how well it worked. Maybe this is because her clients did not want her revealing that info. And that is fine, but she should at least indicate as much. It left me somewhat unimpressed. 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 !" (Gabe Brown, Browns Ranch, Nourished by Nature) As a lay person and amateur gardener, I thought this was a fantastic introduction to regenerative agriculture. The author shares a wealth of wisdom related to weed growth, plant stress, pest activity, water management and soil health. Her work with the pioneering families and agribusinesses (often ranchers) that are adapting these ideas to their own farms and climates (often in the face of overwhelming odds) is eye opening. Let’s pivot now and talk about the toxin loading of our soil. First of all, what’s going on and why should it matter to us? Brix measure the dissolved solids in the setup of a leafy plant. We’re using that as a tool to look at how much sugar and dissolve solids? How well is that plant photosynthesizing? It’s an indicator in the field. Whereas, these new meters are new infrared, spectroscopy, so they need to be correlated with those specific crops. At the moment, you can test maybe twenty different crops, apples, pears, and those obvious ones. There’s a lot of calibration that’s still required to test it but some of these new meters will tell you where in the world was this grown, which is cool. People can correlate that this has come from this property. It’s taken all of these things for a while but now it’s a hand meter.These food producers are taking actions to imitate natural systems more closely,” says Masters. “[T]hey are rewarded with more efficient nutrient, carbon, and water cycles, improved plant and animal health, nutrient density, reduced stress, and ultimately, profitability.” Thank you for joining us, Nicole. You’ve had some valuable insights and I’m grateful for your time.

If you have a functioning gut, then everything becomes possible. There’s so much more that we’re able to do because you’re not tired all the time and you’re not full of toxins. It’s part of my daily regimen if I’m thinking about human health. I don’t sell products. I’m not trying to push product but it’s something that we can use in our garden to do the same thing, so it will grab and hold toxins, heavy metals, and it will feed your beneficial microbes. Soil: It’s a whole systems issues that we’re dealing with.We’re going to start on a heavy note but this is an important thing for our audience to know. Talk to us about your encounter with paraquat and what its consequences were. Yes. I used a quote there from Stephen Jenkinson who talks about hope. Hope is mortgaging the future. Hope is something that you hold out as some comparison. Something that you’re going to cling to and pray for as opposed to what’s happening is happening now. We need to be focusing on the things that we can do now. Hope is the other side of hopelessness. We go from being feeling overwhelmed to maybe the Knight in shining armor is going to roll up. No, if you look and think a lot of the big agri companies are also your big pharmaceutical companies. Bayer, for instance. They are peddling the same stuff. I think this is one of the things that we saw come out of that Monsanto case was that they’re making up data. They know the impacts that this is having on either humans, soil, microbiology, or nutrients. They know full well what’s going on and more of these documents that are coming out. I’m not a big conspiracy theorist. I hate that stuff. Unfortunately, it’s big business at play. Why would you stop the gravy train? Unfortunately, it’s people not being connected to the integrity or wanting people in landscapes to flourish. It’s just a business model.

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