For the Love of Soil

Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems

By: Nicole Masters

Narrated by: Nicole Masters

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Learn a road map to healthy soil and revitalized food systems for powerfully addressing these times of challenge. This audiobook equips producers with knowledge, skills, and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits.

This audiobook will show you how to:

• Triage soil health and act to fast-track soil and plant health
• Build healthy resilient soil systems
• Develop a deeper understanding of microbial and mineral synergies
• Read what weeds and diseases are communicating about soil and plant health
• Create healthy, productive and profitable landscapes

Globally recognized soil advocate and agroecologist Nicole Masters delivers the solution to rewind the clock on this increasingly critical soil crisis in her first book For the Love of Soil. She argues we can no longer treat soil like dirt. Instead, we must take a soil-first approach to regenerate landscapes, restore natural cycles, and bring vitality back to ecosystems.

This book translates the often complex and technical know-how of soil into more digestible terms through case studies from regenerative farmers, growers, and ranchers in Australasia and North America. Along with sharing key soil health principles and restoration tools, For the Love of Soil provides land managers with an action plan to kick-start their soil resource’s well-being, no matter the scale.

Praise for the book:

“For years, many of us involved in regenerative agriculture have been touting the soil health - plant health - animal health - human health connection but no one has tied them all together like Nicole does in For the Love of Soil!" (Gabe Brown, Browns Ranch, Nourished by Nature)

“William Gibson once said that "the future is here - it is just not evenly distributed. Nicole modestly claims that the information in the book is not new thinking, but her resynthesis of the lessons she has learned and refined in collaboration with regenerative land-managers is new, and it is powerful. She lucidly shares lessons learned from the deep topsoil futures she and her farming and ranching partners manage for and achieve. The case studies, science, and examples presented a compelling testament to the global, rapidly growing soil health movement." (Abe Collins, cofounder of LandStream and founder of Collins Grazing)

“Our global agricultural production systems are frequently at war with ecosystem health and Mother Nature. In this book, Nicole is declaring peace with nature and provides us with the science and guidelines to join the regenerative agriculture movement while increasing profits.” (Terry McCosker of Resource Consulting Services in Australia)

“These food producers are taking actions to imitate natural systems more closely,” says Masters. “[T]hey are rewarded with more efficient nutrient, carbon, and water cycles, improved plant and animal health, nutrient density, reduced stress, and ultimately, profitability.”

In spite of the challenges food producers face, Masters’ book shows even incredibly degraded landscapes can be regenerated through mimicking natural systems and focusing on the soil first.

Buy this book today to take your farm or ranch to the next level!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Nicole Masters (P)2019 Nicole Masters

Outstanding and Revolutionary.

if all the farmers in the world put into practice what's described in this book we could significantly mitigate climate change and feed the world healthy food. they must listen for all farmers whether you're on a quarter acre or 100,000.

Want a healthier future and you grow food?

Nicole is a Master soil educator and ecologist that offers tremendous amount of knowledge for the agriculturalist and/or gardener. I have listen to "For the Love of Soil" 3 times already and still go back to different chapters as needed to re-enforce the things I have learned from the book. I love the New Zealand accent too. Great book that needs to be in all farmers, ranchers, and gardeners libraries and opened often!!!!! If you take action after you read (listen) to the book your land management practice should for ever be changed for the better.

The why and how of ending chemical agriculture

Amazing book on the healing power of healthy soil and regenerative agriculture to grow strong healthy plants and animals and make good money doing it.

Every Eaters Must Read

It's a great book! Lots of details for the geeks as well as interesting stories of experiences for the casual reader.
If you don't have a fascination with soil yet, you likely will after reading this book.

best book I've ever heard

this book was amazing to listen to. a must have for your permaculture book library. keep them coming.

Wowww

someone planted the soil seed in conversation so I decided to dig deeper and educate myself a little and this book has mad the soil bug take root. I'm a mid 30s single western man and the only thing I want to do with my life is be of service to the collective and the planet. the soil has presented me with an opportunity to focus that spirit for today and posterity

Audio book companion

Where do I find this audio book companion that the reader is referring to so often?

I highly recommend this book

Very interesting explanations and stories with a pleasant touch of humor. I think everyone interested in agriculture should listen to this book!

Leading Ag Research

Absolutely loved this information that helped me view my own land in such a new and refreshing light. I feel this books gives so many great examples in each chapter to apply this information personally. Definitely new information everyone must know!

Lots of good info!

It was very informative. Some of the scientific names make it harder to follow at times. It would have been better if the narrator would slow a little at the more technical parts so I wouldn't have to go back and listen again.