EDUCATION

Soils are Alive

Soil Biological Fertility and Climate Resilience

Part 1: What is in soil and what does it do?
Part 2: How do soil organisms affect soil?
Part 3: How do soil organisms affect plants?
Part 4: Effects of soil disturbance on organisms.
Part 5: Interactions among soil organisms.
Part 6: Options for managing soil organisms.
Part 7: How is knowledge of soil organisms relevant to sustainable land management?

The long term objective of the ERA management system is to achieve soil sustainability as demonstrated in the following diagram, which is purely for illustrative purposes to help explain the change process over time. Time will be a major variable. Measuring this time change process (under different soil and weather conditions and farming methods) to achieve the assumed “point of sustainability” is a dominant purpose of ERA.