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  • 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
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (85 ratings)

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For the Love of Soil

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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
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Listen now and be inspired and educated

Outstanding book that brings clarity the most important issue of our times. Great narration by author.

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insight

Im looking forward to listening to this again already. learnt so much and want to make sure I've not missed anything. great book.

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Nourishment for the Brain

What Nicole has piblished here is a brilliant fuse of knowledge and experience resulting in a well crafted and enjoyable roadmap for regenerative agriculture. If this sounds of interest to you, I doubt there are better books you could listen to on the subject.

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Excellent and insightful book written and narrated by Nicole Masters. I learnt so much !

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Required for anyone geeking out on Regenerative Ag

Masters not only by name. Nicole Masters is truly a wealth of information and experience and she shares it in a way detailed enough for the geeks while still being entertaining.

I enjoyed listening but will also buy a hard copy to study and annotate. Lots of valuable information in these pages.

May this book inspire a generation of farmers to learn how to steward their land into health, rather than exploiting it into dust.

Authors doing their own narration is not always a great idea (Rob Moore) but nobody could have done this better than Nicole herself.

Loved this book.

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An Important Book

This book should be essential reading if you are a farmer. It is well put together and the author is hugely knowledgable and the work is well researched. Importantly she recognises that there is not one fix for every farm. However towards the end she did stray into slightly shaky territory making some claims that are not so well established. She seems anti gm, and focuses on profitability but doesn't seem to consider that to feed the world we probably need higher yielding crops. Although I'm sure she'll have a great comeback to that. I love that she pulled out corporates for greenwashing and suggested how they manage their flaky marketing claims.
This is the future.

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brilliant

So good, thanks Nicole!
From,
An aspiring soil regenerator in the Highlands of Scotland :)

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essential reading for food producers

clearly explained and not hard to follow whilst containing lots of technical info. highly recommended!

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Information on a plate

This book is so informative but absolutely digestible. A great mix of stories and facts that flow well through the whole book.

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Brilliant!

Nicole examines theory and practical applications of improving soil health with detailed examples from around the world. I will be listening a second time, this time with a note pad!

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