Regenerative Farming Techniques: The Role Soil Health Plays In Sustainable Agriculture
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the importance of soil health with Michelle M. Wander, the Director of the Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program and Associate Professor of Soil Fertility/Ecology at the University of Illinois. She also directs the Wander Soil Ecology Lab, where she works to encourage soil stewardship and management using cutting-edge research.
Michelle has been involved in soil science for over 30 years. Interested in agroecology and agricultural sustainability, she is on a mission to better understand biologically-based fertility – specifically how it impacts soil organic matter and soil biology…
Join us now to learn more about:
- The difference between conventional and regenerative farming practices.
- How soil management methods can be developed to support various ecosystems.
- What soil degradation is, and why it happens.
- The ways that crop rotation can enhance soil fertility.
To learn more about Michelle and her work, visit the Wander Soil Ecology Lab here!
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is Michelle Wander. |
| 0:42.0 | She's a professor at University of |
| 0:43.9 | Illinois. She has the Wander Soil Ecology Lab. So we're going to talk about |
| 0:47.7 | you know what's the importance of soil nutrients associated with it. It's |
| 0:51.0 | becoming a very very big topic worldwide. So welcome Michelle. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you for coming. Nice to be here. Yeah, if you would tell me a bit about your |
| 0:56.9 | background and then we'll get into research. Okay I am a soil ecologist and I had the great opportunity to study and work in a lot of different places, which is really nice because soils and environments and geology that they develop out of differ and so do the |
| 1:16.4 | vegetative complexes so it's a great education to get and I have done a lot of different things in agriculture but I also had a first-hand |
| 1:26.6 | experience with my husband being an organic vegetable farmer so I've gotten to eat |
| 1:31.1 | pretty well. |
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