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Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
Fostering life is the key to transforming dirt into soil.
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
The soil–root interface is called the rhizosphere,
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
The sun’s energy, captured in photosynthesis and channeled from above ground to below ground as liquid carbon, fuels the microbes that solubilize minerals.
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
storage ability is called effective rainfall.
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
An integrated, holistic approach is required in order to mimic the complexity and fertility of a prairie ecosystem on the farm.
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
Soils accustomed to synthetic fertilizer are like drug addicts: They need to be weaned off their addition slowly.
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
“microbial activity also drives the process of soil aggregation, enhancing soil structural stability, aeration, infiltration, and water-holding capacity. All living things, above and below ground, benefit when the plant-microbe bridge is functioning effectively.”
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
a plant must attract specific microbes that are genetically hard-wired to solubilize that particular mineral.