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Soil : the incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy / Matthew Evans.
ISBN:
9781761062254
Title:
Soil : the incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy / Matthew Evans.
Author:
Evans, Matthew, 1966- author.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Contents:
What you eat is made out of thin air (and a tiny bit of dirt) -- Soil, the Earth's miracle skin -- The Earth's kidneys: When good soil turns bad -- Plants don't eat dirt: The underground economy -- Here, there and everywhere: The 'old friends' hypothesis -- Look after the soil, and the plants look after us -- Nutritional dark matter -- Here today, gone tomorrow -- Big ones, small ones, skinny ones, fat ones: Worms -- Bombs, germs and plants: 100 years of fast fixes creating big problems -- How the Green Revolution is turning the world brown -- You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind -- Burying charcoal and building soil -- Weeds: What we can see tells us about what we can't -- Hoome gardeners rock -- Compost, compost, and compost -- If it quacks, is it a duck? -- We are all, temporarily, not soil -- Keep them dawgies movin' -- A grain of truth: Regenerative agriculture -- What's the beef with methane? -- Money in the bank -- They germinated a seed on the Moon -- Loaves and fishes: Feeding a hungry world.
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Format:
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Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. :

Murdoch Books,

2021.