Jon Stika
Autor de A Soil Owner's Manual: How to Restore and Maintain Soil Health
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Ocupaciones
- farmer
agronomist
brewer - Organizaciones
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
Phat Fish Brewing Company LLC
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 23
- Popularidad
- #537,598
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 1
Stika calls the need to nurture soil micro-organisms as a paradigm shift in what he calls the soil food web. He discusses how tilling soil degrades it because “it takes time and energy for the plant to establish the necessary relationships with the desired soil organisms. . .” He recommends managing soil as a biologic rather than chemical system by feeding microbes rather than plants, pointing out that there are more microbes in a handful of soil than there are humans on earth.
I totally forgive him for saying “tenant of ecology” rather than tenet.
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