Outsiders are becoming aware of the role of technology in farming. As rural and bucolic as our image of farming is, for decades, farmers have been on the cutting edge of multiple types of technology. The next big thing is going to be biologically active soil. The soil microfauna, which had been killed off …
The Smithsonian magazine published an article about the soil microbiome. You can call them microbes or by more scientific names, but these are the microscopic creatures that keep plants alive
Saw this article on the importance of soil health on the USDA Natural Resource website
Life, as we know it, could not exist without the soil microbe ecosystem