Radical Soil Care
Table of Content
143 pages
1. About This Book
2. My Background
3. Land Management is at the Root of the Problem
4. The Human Condition
5. The Principles of Soil Health
Biodiversity
Food – nutrient content and security
Health
Soil structure
Water cycles/water holding capacity
Carbon sequestration/photosynthesis
6. Why Are Our Soils So Depleted?
7. How Can We Fix This?
8. A Method for Applying the Principles of Soil Health
Our tools
And even more tools
An example of the method – pH testing
Beware of over-complication
And even more options
9. For the Love of Weeds
Why weeds are our friends
Methods of control – or making even more friends
More about chemical application
And even more options
10. How to Rebuild Soil Organic Matter
The why and the how of strip grazing
Regenerative gardening and horticulture
11. Let’s Make Some Compost
Incidental compost
Hot compost
Composting animals
Even more ways to compost
What else can we do with compost?
12. How Shelterbelts Support Soil Health
13. Inoculation
14. Benchmarking – Does What I Do Work?
Soil tests
Testing pH
Visual soil assessments
Soil temperature
Measuring soil compaction
Comparing sugar content in plants (Brix)
Using a microscope
Or just bury your old undies!
Recording and using the data: figure out what you need
15. The Farmplan – Another Tool for Bench- marking
16. Minerals Every Day Keep the Doctor Away
17. The Planets – Do I Need to Care?
Choosing a planting calendar
18. How to Reduce Our Workload
Do we really need to make hay?
What else can we do to optimise workflow?
19. Other Methods and Modalities
Homeopathy
Biofeedback