Sentences with phrase «living soil»

The rich ecology of living soils — fungi, insects, bacteria, vegetation — in a highly productive symbiosis gives way to bare earth.

Live food comes from live soil!

The Organic Living Soils workshop will help you understand all the important ingredients that go into creating healthy and fertile soils: compost, compost tea and biofertiliser.

It has also been suggested that mycorrhizal fungi may be more effective nutrient competitors against free - living soil microbes than roots, or that mycorrhizal fungi may alter the bacterial community in the rhizosphere (the area of soil influenced by a plant root) in ways that help plants acquire more nutrients (e.g. attract nitrogen fixing bacteria).

The higher CO2 concentration does lead to additional uptake where deforestation is not occurring; however, the conversion to long - lived soil carbon is quite slow so additional biospheric disturbance (or a decline in atmospheric CO2) in the future could lead to its release.

Elsewhere the productivity of cropping soils is sustained only by larger inputs of increasingly expensive fertilisers and poisons — which in themselves destabilise living soil and have impacts on broader environments.

The revolution of the feminine revolts against the denatured Babel of concrete and steel that stifles the living soil» (Liberation Theology [Paulist, 1972], pp. 125 f.).

Ideas that organic food could be healthier and better for the environment originated in the early days of the organic movement as a result of publications like the 1943 book The Living Soil [14][15] and Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease (1945).

The judges were impressed by the long term dedication of Nutrisoil to their product and absolute commitment to producing healthy, living soils, as well as to the organic industry.

For example, in the case of crops this is the living soil; for animals it is the farm ecosystem; for fish and marine organisms, the aquatic environment.

A living soil is central to soil fertility because it is the activity of soil organisms that makes available the elements in plant residues and organic debris entering the soil.

Its immediate catalyst was the 1943 book, «The Living Soil», by Lady Eva Balfour, which detailed the «Haughey Experiment», the UK's first scientific side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional farming.

Under truly regenerative and holistically managed systems, living soils can be diverse and healthy enough to mitigate the methane produced by the livestock in real time.

Under truly regenerative and holistically managed systems, living soils can be diverse and healthy enough to

As our ocean chemistry continues to change, we will educate decision makers about ocean acidification and encourage the planting Ocean Friendly Gardens to create «living soils» that trap carbon and reduce nutrient runoff.