Murdoch Books
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
9781911668190
Preface
Introduction: From the Ground Up
Chapter 1: What You Eat is Made out of Thin Air (and a Tiny Bit of Dirt)
Chapter 2: Soil, the Earth's Miracle Skin
Chapter 3: The Earth's Kidneys: When Good Soil Turns Bad
Chapter 4: Plants Don't Eat Dirt: The Underground Economy
Chapter 5: Here, There and Everywhere: The 'Old Friends' Hypothesis
Chapter 6: Look After the Soil, and the Plants Look After Us
Chapter 7: Nutritional Dark Matter
Chapter 8: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Chapter 9: Big Ones, Small Ones, Skinny Ones, Fat Ones: Worms
Chapter 10: Bombs, Germs and Plants: 100 Years of Fast Fixes Creating Big Problems
Chapter 11: How The Green Revolution is Turning the World Brown
Chapter 12: You'll Never Plough a Field by Turning it Over in Your Mind
Chapter 13: Burying Charcoal and Building Soil
Chapter 14: Weeds: What We Can See Tells Us About What We Can't
Chapter 15: Home Gardeners Rock
Chapter 16: Compost, Compost and Compost
Chapter 17: If it Quacks, Is It a Duck?
Chapter 18: We Are All, For a Certain While, Not Soil
Chapter 19: Keep Them Dawgies Movin'
Chapter 20: A Grain of Truth: Regenerative Agriculture
Chapter 21: What's the Beef with Methane?
Chapter 22: Money in the Bank
Chapter 23: They Germinated a Seed on the Moon
Chapter 24: Loaves and Fishes: Feeding a Hungry World
Soil FAQs
Resources
Acknowledgements
Index
€18.06
