News Flash—what's good for the land is good for us too! Read all about it in our new book, What Your Food Ate. How soil health ripples through the crops and animals of the human diet into our own bodies.
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No food, no microbes. This is why living roots in the soil all the time are so important. Think about it - what if you got to eat only on Thursdays and went without in between.
People are often surpised to learn how slow soil microbes grow because we only see how quickly they can grow on rotting food or petri dishes.
Great to see this elegant study quantify this!
Even healthy soils are a food and water desert at the microbial scale.
Excited to have the cover story in @sciencemagazine this week - or perhaps I should say, to partner with fungi on the cover. Fungi partner with nearly all of Earth's land plants to forge ecosystems that we depend on, but scientists are only beginning to understand...
@frantecol Another little discussed aspect of the yield trap is the issue of food waste. "In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply." If yield is the guiding light why throw away so much of it?
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Soil organic matter is a complex mixture of #plant, animal, or microbial-derived residues at various stages of decomposition. Plants and #microbial communities are usually the biggest contributors to #soil organic matter. Learn more here: https://t.co/GXwGDvEqne
Unseen and hidden effects of pesticides: pesticide suppress natural soil fertilizers.
Our new study in @NaturePortfolio demonstrates that pesticides suppress the natural nutrient uptake capacity of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi with 42%.
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Guess what? "What Your Food Ate" by David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé of @Dig2Grow is our July Book of the Month! And please join us for an in-store event with the authors TOMORROW at 6pm.
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@DanBarber There's still no free lunch out there...only nature and those of us steeped in the reality that sun, water, and real plants, animals, and food make us and the planet what we are.
First they want to get rid of farms and grow everything inside, then get rid of farmers by investing in robots. Now they're figured out how to grow food with no sun. https://t.co/k40tISK446