Farm-A-Yard teaches people how to grow healthy soil as the foundation for producing nutrient dense food.
There is great need to introduce healthy, living microbes into the depleted, dead soil caused by modern farming and gardening practices.
The need for microbes in the soil is also the same need in the human gut.
The research is revealing how important the realm of microbes are to human health.
Have you heard the term, “leaky gut”? Or all the the articles bringing attention to the importance of gut health in healing an array of diseases?
This is another post of a great article, “Healthy Soil Microbes, Healthy People”, this time with more quotes to get you to read more about how microbes work and why we need them!
“Just as we have unwittingly destroyed vital microbes in the human gut through overuse of antibiotics and highly processed foods, we have recklessly devastated soil microbiota essential to plant health through overuse of certain chemical fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides, failure to add sufficient organic matter (upon which they feed), and heavy tillage.”
“Soil microorganisms do much more than nourish plants. Just as the microbes in the human body both aid digestion and maintain our immune system, soil microorganisms both digest nutrients and protect plants against pathogens and other threats.”
“For over four hundred million years, plants have been forming a symbiotic association with fungi that colonize their roots, creating mycorrhizae (my-cor-rhi-zee), literally “fungus roots,” which extend the reach of plant roots a hundred-fold. These fungal filaments not only channel nutrients and water back to the plant cells, they connect plants and actually enable them to communicate with one another and set up defense systems.”
“Half of the earth’s habitable lands are farmed and we are losing soil and organic matter at an alarming rate. Studies show steady global soil depletion over time, and a serious stagnation in crop yields.”
“Reintroducing microorganisms into the soil, together with the organic matter they feed upon, has the potential to be a key part of the next big revolution in human health”
Do you need some soil organisms? www.farm-a-yard.com/compost-tea/
To read the full article by Mike Amaranthus and Bruce Allyn: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/mike-amaranthus/