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9781911668190

Soil The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy

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  • ISBN13:

    9781911668190

  • ISBN10:

    1911668196

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2022-02-22
  • Publisher: Murdoch Books

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Summary

"A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival." - Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler.

Perfect for fans of Wilding by Isabella Tree.

What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves.

Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed.

For too long, we've not only neglected the land beneath us, we've squandered and debased it, by over-clearing, over-grazing and over-ploughing. But if we want our food to nourish us, and to ensure our planet's long-term health, we need to understand how soil works - how it's made, how it's lost, and how it can be repaired.

In this ode to the thin veneer of Earth that gifts us life, commentator and farmer Matthew Evans shows us that what we do in our backyards, on our farms, and what we put on our dinner tables really matters, and can be a source of hope.

Isn't it time we stopped treating the ground beneath our feet like dirt?

Author Biography

Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, now a Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur and food activist. He raises pigs, milks cows, tends a garden, runs a farm restaurant and teaches from Fat Pig Farm, in the picturesque Huon Valley. Matthew is the star of the long-running SBS TV show The Gourmet Farmer as well as food documentaries What's the Catch? and For the Love of Meat. He is the author of twelve books, including the authoritative and internationally bestselling Real Food Companion and The Gourmet Farmer Deli Book, as well as his autobiography Never Order Chicken on a Monday followed by The Dirty Chef.

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface xiii
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, Temporarily, 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
References & Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements
Index

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