Radical Soil Care
Table Of Content
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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
– The temptation to apply chemicals
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 how of strip grazing
– Regenerative gardening and horticulture
– 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
– Taking pictures
– 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
15. The Farmplan – Another Tool for Benchmarking
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
20. Where to Start – Final Comments
The Radical Soil Club
Contact
Disclaimer
Thank You
Endnotes