A geologist and a biologist buy a house with fixer-upper dirt and learn how to make it fertile. They added tons of coffee grounds, wood chips, leaves, and home-brewed compost tea and it worked over a period of several years. "....by nurturing the microbial life below ground, we can reverse much of the damage caused by the ancient practice of plowing and the modern overuse of pesticides and fertilizers. Microbes maintain our health too.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The subtitle is What They Fell, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World. Trees lives longer and do things at a slower pace. The send slow electrical signals and release chemicals that other trees can detect. The are social and care for each other by means of soil fungi. Isolated trees live shorter lives than those living connected together in forests.
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