Is Soil Alive?
Soil doesn't seem like it's "alive", yet it functions like a living thing in lots of key ways.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Soil health: the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living system, within ecosystem and land-use boundaries, to sustain biological productivity, promote the quality of air and water environments, and maintain plant, animal, and human health
- Living system: an open self-organizing life form that interacts with its environment
- Ecosystem services: varied benefits to humans provided by the natural environment and from healthy ecosystems
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