The Importance of Soil Health + Why Sustainability Isn’t Enough / Kiss the Ground

Today, I’m speaking with Don Smith from Kiss the Ground. We’re talking about soil health, regenerative practices that can heal the land, and why that’s important. Don is a teacher for their soil advocate training, which is a program for educating people about how and why soil regeneration is important and equipping them with the tools and knowledge to be more effective advocates for regenerative practices that can heal the land and absorb some of the negative consequences of climate change. Don gives us a science lesson as to how this works, why it’s important, and what we can do to encourage this necessary movement and healing.

We Discuss

• Why soil health is so important
• The current, degenerated state of soil and how it got here 
• What is soil regeneration - how it impacts the environment + food
• Why sustainability isn’t enough
• A breakdown of regenerative agriculture 
• The capacity of land to be healed
• The essential components of soil regeneration
• The current farming paradigm + why it’s not the best practice for soil health
• Kiss the Ground’s scholarship program to retrain farmers
• How regenerative agriculture is also more profitable than degenerative practices
• How re-orienting government subsidies + legislation could be game-changing
• How education can reinforce empowerment for activism + change
• Taking a non-partisan approach to advocacy
• The relationship of soil microbiome to our nutrition and health
• The most important things you can do to support soil health

If you enjoyed this episode, listen to:
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler - Connecting with the Sentience of the Earth, Realizing Our Innate Goodness + Healing
Episode 24 w/ Jordan Hamm - Emergence: Neuroscience, Creativity + Miracles
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace - Revaluing Maintenance + Relating to the Earth

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Kiss the Ground's website
Kiss the Ground's educational videos
Kiss the Ground's soil advocacy program
Kiss the Ground's book
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization (book)
Regreening the Desert (documentary)
Tanzania reforestation
Fantastic Fungi (film)
Dirt to Soil (book) by Gabe Brown
A Regenerative Secret (documentary)
White Oak Pastures

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