The complete guide to restoring your soil
Book - 2021
"Dale Strickler is an expert on building healthy soil and restoring degraded soil, and in The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil, he presents the science of soil, along with proven methods of restoring depleted soil and agricultural practices from around the world that continue to build soil, rather than cause it to deteriorate"--
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- Published
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North Adams, MA :
Storey Publishing
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Also available online - ISBN
- 9781635862249
- PREFACE: By the Skin of Our Earth
- Part I. Why Restore Soil?
- 01. Soil Salvation
- 02. How We Made a Mess of This Planet and How Soil Restoration Can Save It
- Part II. What Is the Ideal Soil?
- 03. Soil Oxygen
- 04. Water
- 05. Soil Biology
- 06. Minerals
- 07. Carbon Cycle and Energy Flow
- Part III. Practices That Build Better Soil
- 08. Farming without Tillage
- 09. Crop Rotations
- 10. Cover Crops
- 11. Pasture and Rangeland Management
- 12. Agroforestry
- Part IV. Once and Future Farming
- 13. Better Agriculture Systems of the Past, Present, and Future
- Acknowledgments
- Digging Deeper
- Glossary
- Metric Conversion Charts
- Index