4 The Soil: A Conversation
Soil. What is it, really? It’s more than the dirt under our feet and the ground we stand on. Soil is living and life-giving. Listen in as we unlock the mysteries of soil by speaking with people at the forefront of the soil health movement. “4 The Soil: A Conversation” is part of the 4 The Soil Awareness Campaign led by Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Soil Health Coalition. The campaign’s purpose is to raise awareness of soil as a critical agricultural and natural resource for social, economic, and environmental health. The podcast is a collaboration of Virginia Tech's School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation, Virginia Cooperative Extension, On The Farm Radio, USDA-NRCS, and the Virginia Soil Health Coalition with specific funding from the Agua Fund, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and Virginia Tech’s Department of Agriculture, Leadership, and Community Education’s Community Viability grant program. Hear and learn from farmers, agricultural professionals, conservation leaders, master gardeners, and many more on how and why to be 4 The Soil.
Episodes
The movement of soil off cropland and the landscape by wind or rain means critical nutrients and soil organic matter are also being lost. Build...
Kim shares with Mary, Eric, and Jeff how soil health goes beyond just sustaining agriculture to include understanding the marriages of different perspe...
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Bob and The Chef's Garden team collaborate with culinary professionals, physicians, and oncologists to test the taste, flavor, aesthetics, nut...
Bob shares the history of The Chef's Garden with Mary, Jeff, and Eric, including a review of Economics 101 from the 1980s...
As Doug built his cropping system and expanded his focus on ...
For Doug, his journey with no-till farming began in 2010 when he began questioning where his farm needed to go....
Jessica owns and operates the farm business with her mom and sister in Weyers Cave, ...
Fatema Mohajir and her family are from the Bamyan province in central Afghanistan. As a child, Fatema's family lived in Iran, where her father worked at a large-scale vegetable farm. Fatema's father and older brother inspired her interest in soil science and farming.
Fatema studied at Kabul University and graduated in 2020. As a...
Dr. Christine Mahoney of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Wayflowering Flower Farm joins Mary and Eric for a conversation about soil health, regenerative farm design, and organic flower farming.
Dr. Mahoney shares how better outcomes, such as health, peace, and tranquility, can be achieved through enriching the so...
Mary and Eric explore this question with Dr. Christine Mahoney of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Wayflowering Flower Farm. Dr. Mahoney shares her own experiences with social enterprises, systems thinking, and regenerative organic flower farming in this episode.
Dr. Mahoney reflects on the catalyt...
Buz reflects on his own research but also points out what he has heard from farmers and ranchers he has worked with t...
Buz explains how the shift in thinking and paradigms occurred. In many cases, people were ...
As a soil ecologist, Ashley recommends keeping track of y...
As someone who enjoyed digging soil pits as a seven-year-old, Ashley recommends sampling ...
Kasper is particularly intrigued by...
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