In 2014 , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations scream the world ’s tending tofamily farming . This hail year , we ’ll all be celebrating ground .
A third of the world ’s soil are cheapen , and you sleep together as well as I do that our food for thought does n’t grow in the air . Between the FAO ’s International Year of the Soils and the “ Common Vision Statement on Cover Crops and Soil Health ” that 40 ag group recently mail to the USDA , there might be a few more members of the cosmopolitan public who start to see that us sustainable - husbandman , save - the - soil types are n’t mad .
Get Schooled
mathematical group around the world are getting involve in thissoil celebration — everything from India ’s International Conference on Natural Resource Management for Food and Rural Livelihoods to Scotland ’s Cereals in Practice harvest research day . Here in the U.S. , the Soil Science Society of America propose we keep this party going all year long by offering a series of 12 monthly soil - related messages :
I frankly ca n’t tell you which one I ’m most excited about . ( I ’m whole serious — I roll in the hay this dorky stuff . ) In add-on to educational cloth they ’ve developed , SSSA members will come to your group and babble about these soil topics for gratuitous . You canrequest a speakerfor your group , and get Jan. 1 , 2015 , instructor candownload materialsfor Kindergarten through 12th grade . you may find out and download afree videoeach month , too . January ’s is less than three minutes long , and I think it was passably educational , plus not boring .
Free Film This Week!Until Dec. 12 , 2014 , the documentarySymphony of the Soilis streaming free on the FAO internet site ! down some ( constitutional ) popcorn and get some folks together to find out and talk about .
Terrifying Soil Stats
work on a small - scale , organic farm , I certainly see the deviation between well - loved soil and over - used soil . I ’ve written articles forHobby Farmsabout soil . I ’ve gone to seminars , read books and watched motion-picture show . In short , I ’m not entirely uneducated . So I was aghast to learn a few things from the FAO :
Now I ’m back to bugging my friends to compost , making careful soil - direction plan for next year and spreading the word of honor about the International Year of Soils . link up this ground celebration with me !
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