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description: **UPDATED VERSION** 'For the Love of Soil' is a land managers 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. Globally-recognized soil advocate and agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers the solution to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical soil crisis in her first book For the Love of Soil. She contends we can no longer treat soil like dirt. Instead we must take a soil-first approach to regenerate landscapes restore natural cycles and bring vitality back to ecosystems. This book translates the often complex and technical know-how of soil into more digestible terms through case studies from regenerative farmers growers and ranchers in Australasia and North America. Along with sharing key soil health principles and restoration tools For the Love of Soil provides land managers with an action plan to kickstart their soil resources well-being no matter the scale. 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.  William Gibson once said that the future is here - it is just not evenly distributed. Nicole modestly claims that the information in the book is not new thinking but her resynthesis of the lessons she has learned and refined in collaboration with regenerative land-managers is new and it is powerful. Says Abe Collins cofounder of LandStream and founder of Collins Grazing. She lucidly shares lessons learned from the deep-topsoil futures she and her farming and ranching partners manage for and achieve. The case studies science and examples presented a compelling testament to the global rapidly growing soil health movement. These food producers are taking actions to imitate natural systems more closely says Masters. ... they are rewarded with more efficient nutrient carbon and water cycles; improved plant and animal health nutrient density reduced stress and ultimately profitability. In spite of the challenges food producers face Masters book shows even incredibly degraded landscapes can be regenerated through mimicking natural systems and focusing on the soil first. Our global agricultural production systems are frequently at war with ecosystem health and Mother Nature notes Terry McCosker of Resource Consulting Services in Australia. In this book Nicole is declaring peace with nature and provides us with the science and guidelines to join the regenerative agriculture movement while increasing profits.
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title: For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems
publisher: Printable Reality