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June 16, 2025 57 mins

In today's episode, we speak with soil health expert Jon Stika about lessons from his career and his influential book A Soil Owner's Manual: How to Restore and Maintain Soil Health.

Listen to the episode to learn how to apply the principles of soil health to any farm, ranch, or garden. Listen to deepen your understanding of how healthy soil is supposed to function, and how healthy soil has many cost benefits to a farmer's bottom line. Listen to learn why Jon says that the most important step to restoring soil health begins with changing our attitudes and our mindsets toward the soil.

Thank you to Crista Fiala for producing today's episode and to Matthew Connolly for providing our theme music.

Special thanks to the North Dakota Natural Resources Trust for providing a generous grant to support our work here at Common Ground: A Prairie Podcast.


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