PLANT SOIL MODEL
WITHOUT PLANTS THERE IS ONLY DIRT!
The relationship between plants and soil is a complex system
All growers are harnessed with their own set of constraints and opportunities
soil conditions, geographic conditions, finances, equipment, infrastructure, mineral availability, biological diversity...
Products applied and tools used are all human interventions that effect the relationship between plant and soil
A model is needed to understand the effects of human intervention
enabling productive conversations about sustainably regenerating soils, growing high quality foods and the benefits and short comings of any product, tool or idea that comes along.
Human interventions come in a variety of forms with a variety of consequences
Removing entire plant from the soil (harvest and weeding)
Mulching, cover cropping, composting
Foliar feeding, watering and irrigation
Tilling the soil, leaving it bare
The addition of chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides
Recognizing how human interventions benefit or harm plant soil relationships, the natural processes of nature, guides towards effective and economic growing practices.