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*Newly Edited Version* Learn a roadmap to healthy soil and revitalised food systems for powerfully address these times of challenge. This book equips producers with knowledge, skills and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Learn how to:- Triage soil health and act to fast-track soil and plant…

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2 authors picked For the Love of Soil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book tells it like it is… just how toxic the world of industrial agriculture is but also how grassroots farmers are bucking this system with exciting change. New Zealand-born Nicole is an agroecologist… that’s not an angry ecologist… but a person who combines the rich ecology of nature with profitable agriculture, and her book is groundbreaking. (No pun intended)

She’s a soil geek, so this read is satisfying for science nuts. It’s also told so well that it can be understood by anyone. It both confronts and lifts the spirit. On audio, you get to hear her cool NZ…

From Rachael's list on Earth lovers and rural regeneration.

In this lively book, soil scientist Nicole Masters digs into the global soil crisis and explains how regenerative agriculture can restore degraded land, repair natural cycles, and bring vitality back to ecosystems. The book translates the often complex and technical know-how of soil into understandable terms with case studies from regenerative farmers and ranchers in Australasia and North America. Along with sharing key soil health principles and restoration tools, Masters provides an action plan to heal the planet.

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