Carranya

"Under one square metre of undisturbed ground in the Earth’s mid-latitudes there might live several hundred thousand small animals. Roughly 90% of the species to which they belong have yet to be named. One gram of this soil – less than a teaspoonful – contains around a kilometre of fungal filaments." Our soils are hurting, and most of the damage derives from common farming practices. A recent book (Monbiot 2022) reports on a farm where an area of degraded soil is now producing a…