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Soil is like your most introverted dinner guest who says nothing all night and just when she's leaving you realise that she heads UN!
Or, (if that doesn't do it for you) won gold last Olympics in women's 100 metres; and all of a sudden you are so interested and wish you had more time but it's too late because she's leaving…

Soil is alive, and here's the big surprise, our number one way to reverse climate change. But we've almost nuked the life out of the friendly little microbes with synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. Find out some easy ways you help turn the ship round. There's heaps of links and sources listed for this episode because it's packed with “hang on, what?!” content that seem too crazy to be real. And here they are:

Overview Resources
The Soil Story narrated by Larry Kopald - (YouTube link)
The Toxin Solution by Dr. Joseph Pizzorno
For Pastoral Farmers
Organic Dairy and Pastoral Group, (New Zealand's hub for regenerative farmers)
Try googling: Your area / specific interest + Biological Group / Biological Farming / Carbon Farming / Wholistic Management / Long grazing / Regenerative farming.
Consultancy and training services
Integrity Soils
BioAgriNomics Ltd
For home gardeners and horticulturalists
Free composting courses: Contact your council and cross your fingers. Aucklanders; Compost Collective
Organic NZ - great magazine and website
New Zealand's hub of permaculture: permaculture.org.nz
Koanga gardens (Kay Baxter)
Organic Edible Gardens website
Give or receive food scraps for composts at ShareWaste
Google Bio Char; It's even better than compost for your garden

Sources for this episode's information
Wikipedia: Soil
Nature Is Speaking – Edward Norton is The Soil  (YouTube link) | Conservation International (CI)
Humus - the essential ingredient: Graeme Sait at TEDxNoosa (YouTube link)
Organic Pastoral intro video (YouTube link)
Successful Farming 
Medical News Today 
‘New Zealand's dangerous addiction to fertiliser' by Charlie Mitchell
'Humanitarian crisis' by Charlie Mitchell
'Precious rock New Zealand is accused of stealing from the Sahara' by Charlie Mitchell

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