{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F69a152e2-6481-4b79-a415-c316cd3a16e9","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"How Soil Shapes the World: Healing Land and Reclaiming Health with Anne Bikl\u00e9 and David R. Montgomery","description":"Anne Bikl\u00e9 and Dave Montgomery are a husband and wife team and authors of the newly released What Your Food Ate and the trilogy: Dirt: the Erosion of Civilizations, the Hidden Half of Nature, and Growing a Revolution. Together, with Anne\u2019s lens of biology, and David\u2019s lens of geology, they explore the topics of soil, land, and human health. In this episode, we explore all things soil. Starting with an exploration of how many dynamics between organisms above ground feel combative, but life beneath the soil is truly collaborative. Anne and Dave explore nutrient cycles and how nutrition in the form of minerals is liberated from rocks by microbial and fungal life and recycled through time. We also explore how plants and animals (including humans) get their nutrition. Anne and Dave touch on the state of our soils and what it means to have lost around half of our soil organic matter in a short amount of time and what we can do about it. Touched on are ideas around taking a long view, and how we can do that with our own health and land health and how the history of the treatment of soil might teach us a little bit more about looking into the future. We look at not just regenerative agriculture, but also the impacts of chemical and mechanized agriculture. Ultimately, Anne and Dave guide us towards the future and just how much hope and resiliency nature is capable of.\r\n\nWe also talk about:\r\n\n\n Policy changes informing changes in practice\r\n\n Boom and bust cycles of agriculture and civilization\r\n\n and so much more\r\n\n\nFind Anne + Dave:\r\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/dig2grow (@dig2grow)\r\n\nWebsite: https://www.dig2grow.com/ (dig2grow.com)\r\n\nAnne + Dave\u2019s Books (in order - but can absolutely be read independently):\r\n\nhttps://bookshop.org/books/dirt-the-erosion-of-civilizations-9780520272903/9780520272903 (Dirt:) The Erosion of Civilizations\r\n\nhttps://bookshop.org/books/the-hidden-half-of-nature-the-microbial-roots-of-life-and-health/9780393353372 (The Hidden Half of Nature): The Microbial Roots of Life and Health\r\n\nhttps://bookshop.org/books/growing-a-revolution-bringing-our-soil-back-to-life/9780393356090 (Growing a Revolution): Bringing Our Soil Back to Life\r\n\nhttps://bookshop.org/books/what-your-food-ate-how-to-heal-our-land-and-reclaim-our-health/9781324004530 (What Your Food Ate): How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health\r\n\nRelated Ground Work Episodes:\r\n\nhttps://groundworkcollective.com/2022/08/09/episode23-stephan-vanvliet/ (Stephan van Vliet) (for more on phytochemicals and the dark matter of nutrition)\r\n\nhttps://groundworkcollective.com/2022/04/05/episode5-chewing-fat-brad-marshall/ (Brad Marshall) (for more on omega 3:omega 6 ratios)\r\n\nhttps://groundworkcollective.com/2022/03/29/episode3-farming-intention-alicia-brown/ (Alicia Brown) (for more on no till agriculture and growing for nutrients)\r\n\nCurrent Discounts for GW listeners:\r\n\n15% off http://farmtrue.com/ (Farm True) ghee and body care products using code: KATEKAV15\r\n\nJoin the Ground Work Collective:\r\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/groundworkcollective/ (@groundworkcollective)\r\n\nFind a Farm: https://nearhome.groundworkcollective.com/ (nearhome.groundworkcollective.com)\r\n\nMore: https://groundworkcollective.com/ (groundworkcollective.com)\r\n\nPodcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: https://groundworkcollective.com/disclaimer (groundworkcollective.com/disclaimer)\r\n\nhttps://groundworkcollective.com/2022/10/11/episode32-anne-dave/ (Episode Webpage)\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a5615dd2-7b1f-47b9-a061-95e75de55614/2493383-1648049050025-3a481c79118bc.jpg"}