Teaming with Microbes
I was sucked into Teaming with Microbes by
Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis this weekend. Teaming with Microbes took
the information from my Living
Soil lunchtime series and turned it into what felt like a fast-paced action novel,
complete with stunning photos of the characters.
As you probably remember, a healthy soil food web equates to a healthy
organic garden. If you have the right critters in your soil,
you'll have better nutrient retention, better soil structure, and
better defense against diseases.
But Lowenfels and Lewis took the story one step further, explaining
that not every soil food web is created equally. Nor will one
type of food web make all plants happy. The key is to come up
with the right fungi to bacteria ratio for each garden.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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GlAd you enjoyed the book!!!! Keep teaming with microbes,
jeff Lowenfels