Sentences with phrase «when soil health»

This is both expensive and unsustainable, also when soil health is in decline plants tend to be more susceptible to disease and pests.

Not exact matches

(Kutztown, PA) Today Rodale Institute announced the launch of a global campaign to generate public awareness of soil's ability to reverse climate change, but only when the health of the soil is maintained through organic regenerative agriculture.

It was established in 1981 to study what happens to soil health and agricultural productivity when transitioning from conventional to organic agriculture.

Rodale Institute announced the launch of a global campaign to generate public awareness of the soil's ability to reverse climate change, but only when the health of the soil is maintained through organic regenerative agriculture.

As I've written about before when I talked about our experience with the GAPS protocol, we've known about a link between gut health and mental health for a long time, and it turns out that certain soil based organisms play an important role here too:

The main reason people decide to go organic when gardening is that they think commercial chemicals, including pesticides and fertilizers, may degrade soil quality, harm the environment and cause long - term damage to their personal health.

Antibiotics and are linked to a variety of health problems, including the spread of antibiotic - resisting strains of common illnesses, contamination of soil and water, and some scientists believe that medications given to animals transfer to people when their meat is consumed - meaning you are being drugged every time you eat a fast - food burger.

Good soil around the house means that when you trample dirt into the house, it'll be good bacteria coming in and my two decades of professional experience suggest that homes on plots with good soil are often places where the homeowners have fewer health concerns over the years.

«A fractured family's dirty laundry is aired, soiled, stained, muddied, fumigated and declared a health hazard when their patriarch succumbs to undercooked neck bones laced with arsenic,» says Henderson on his author page about this comedy.

«When a dependable dog begins soiling the house for example, the first step is to check physical health as there may be a urinary infection involved.

It was established in 1981 to study what happens to soil health and agricultural productivity when transitioning from conventional to organic agriculture.

And when they are, cities can perform the essential service of 21st century urbanism: creating regenerative buildings and landscapes that produce more good for more people rather than places that are merely less bad: More clean energy, more fresh water, more fertile soil, more food, more productivity, more biodiversity — more health and well - being for all.

Back when the soil researchers were setting up their Harvard forest plots in 1991, Earth - system science and soil - health science were completely different fields.

When pondering the answer, consider what the study points out hasn't yet been financially quantified: the value of organic farming's environmental health benefits, such as lack of pollution from pesticides and excess fertilizer, improved soil quality and pollination.

When you look at ecological well - being small and medium - scale organic agriculture has systemic health benefits — often better carbon sequestration in soil, better resilience to drought, et cetera.

Old trees are critical to forest ecosystem health, including after they topple, when they provide grub habitat and replenish the soil.

Here is a synopsis of the lecture: Decades of acid deposition have depleted soil calcium reserves and, when combined with timber harvesting, predicted losses of calcium from soil are considerable and may ultimately threaten long - term forest health and productivity and lead to negative impacts on lakes.