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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
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
“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.
Gabe Brown • Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
“You’ve got to stir the pot or it burns on the bottom.”
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.