Traditional farming has remained mostly unchanged for centuries.
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Living Soil Film
Living Soil: A
Documentary. Now available with subtitles in more than 20 languages. Enable
closed captions by clicking the 'CC' icon, then click the gear icon to select
the subtitle language you want. Our soils support 95 percent of all food
production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as
we have consumed in the last ...
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Living Soil: A Documentary. Now available with subtitles in more
than 20 languages.
Enable closed captions by clicking the 'CC' icon, then click
the gear icon to select the subtitle language you want.
Our soils support 95
percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to
give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years.
They filter our
water. They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs for sequestering
carbon. They are our foundation for biodiversity. And they are vibrantly alive,
teeming with 10,000 pounds of biological life in every acre.
Yet in the last
150 years, we’ve lost half of the basic building block that makes soil
productive.
The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation
in the United States alone are now estimated to be as high as $85 billion every
single year. Like any relationship, our living soil needs our tenderness. It’s
time we changed everything we thought we knew about soil. Let’s make this the
century of living soil. This 60-minute documentary features innovative farmers
and soil health experts from throughout the U.S. Accompanying lesson plans for
college and high school students can also be found on this site. "Living
Soil" was directed by Chelsea Myers and Tiny Attic Productions based in
Columbia, Missouri, and produced by the Soil Health Institute through the
generous support of The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
A special thanks to Dawn Bradley, Brian Berns, Keith Berns, Bill Buckner, Mimo
Davis, Dan DeSutter, Miranda Duschak, James “Ooker” Eskridge, Barry Fisher, Liz
Graznak, Steve Groff, Jerry Hatfield, Trey Hill, Larkin Martin, Bianca
Moebius-Clune, Jesse Sanchez, Larry Thompson, John Wiebold, Kristen Veum, Kevin
Mathein, Ben Harris, Tim Pilcher, Josh Wright, Haley Myers, Rob Myers and Josh
Oxenhandler.