Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Synthetic fertilizer interrupts the relationship between microbes and plant roots because the fertilizer gives plants “free” nutrients, so they don’t need to trade carbon for nutrients from microbes. When that happens, the plants keep a lot of that carbon for themselves, which means the microbes don’t get enough food to grow and reproduce,

“plants take in carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water to form simple sugars.

Mycorrhizal fungi secrete a glue-like substance called glomalin that helps bind soil particles together, and the more soil particles, the more pore spaces. These pore spaces are critical for water infiltration, and it is in and on the thin films of water in soil pore spaces that most soil microbes live.

the grass plant (corn) cycling phosphorus, and legumes (peas and green beans) cycling nitrogen, being transferred to each other by mycorrhizal fungi.

“If you want to make small changes, change the way you do things. If you want to make major changes, change the way you see things.” It was

What is hugelkultur? The word means “hill culture” in German and is a technique where woody debris is utilized as a resource

a plant must attract specific microbes that are genetically hard-wired to solubilize that particular mineral.

Fostering life is the key to transforming dirt into soil.

storage ability is called effective rainfall.