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A Soil Owner's Manual

How to Restore and Maintain Soil Health

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A Soil Owner's Manual

By: Jon Stika
Narrated by: Greg Young
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A Soil Owner's Manual: How to Restore and Maintain Soil Health is about restoring the capacity of your soil to perform all the functions it was intended to perform. This book is not another fanciful guide on how to continuously manipulate and amend your soil to try and keep it productive. This book will change the way you think about and manage your soil. It may even change your life. If you are interested in solving the problem of dysfunctional soil and successfully addressing the symptoms of soil erosion, water runoff, nutrient deficiencies, compaction, soil crusting, weeds, insect pests, plant diseases, and water pollution, or simply wish to grow healthy vegetables in your family garden, then this book is for you.

Soil health pioneer Jon Stika describes in simple terms how you can bring your soil back to its full productive potential by understanding and applying the principles that built your soil in the first place. Understanding how the soil functions is critical to reducing the reliance on expensive inputs to maintain yields. Working with, instead of against, the processes that naturally govern the soil can increase profitability and restore the soil to health. Restoring soil health can proactively solve natural resource issues before regulations are imposed that will merely address the symptoms. This book will lead you through the basic biology and guiding principles that will allow you to assess and restore your soil. It is part of a movement currently underway in agriculture that is working to restore what has been lost. A Soil Owner's Manual: How to Restore and Maintain Soil Health will give you the opportunity to be part of this movement. Restoring soil health is restoring hope in the future of agriculture, from large farm fields and pastures, down to your own vegetable or flower garden.

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Insightful Analogies • Philosophical Nuggets • Good Narration • Valuable Information • Informative Content
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Information provided changed my paradigm regarding soils. My required garden work and expenses have been decreased. Thank you Jon Stika!

Mind blown

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way too much time for reference credit, should be clumped at the end for audiobook. otherwise I would recommend this book, good info and good narration..



a lot of time on bibliography....too much time...

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this is a great introduction to soil health and it's workings. I highly recommend it.

something every gardener and farmer should read

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I enjoyed hearing all the details involved in how to manage and care for healthy soil. It was great to hear all the bits of trivia and background on how we got to where we are today with a hopefully restorative pathway illuminated. Thank you Jon Stika for your commitment and dedication to making a difference with large scale farmers to the everyday gardener. This information is also of tremendous value to those wanting to know how we improve our environment moving forward.

A treasure trove of information

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What a great book thank you for sharing this with the world I wish it was mandatory for 5th graders to read!

Excellent!

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I highly recommend this wether you're involved in Agriculture or not. Small scale, large scale; conventional, strip or no tillage; this is a must read. The least we can do as humans is understand what is beneath our feet.

Must read regardless of Agriculture involvement

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A very important topic that the author makes easy to understand. An eye opener for new and old gardeners alike. Recommended for anyone who touches the soil and a must read for all in the horticulture field.

Recommended for anyone who touches the soil

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That microbial life is vital in soil is not really a surprise to anybody. This book basically beats the point to death, without giving any substantive guidance on how to build microbial life in soil. I had much higher expectations of it.

Excels in redundance.

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This is good information on no-till from a completely scientific standpoint.

Narration is a little dry and expository. Like a lecture. This is not a bad thing per se; if you ‘dig’ the material then you will still be quite interested as the topics move along briskly and there are many resources and tools referred to.

Some reviewers were preternaturally perturbed by the fact that the narrator reads out all the printed URLs. I consider this a small shortcoming.

My biggest problem is that the narrator’s eases are very sharp! If you have high-pitch sensitive ears, these esses will murder you. Especially if you use earbuds like I did.

Beware.

Too essy! My ears ouched!

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I found it very informative. I am excited about farming but have no prior knowledge of what plants needed for food or amount of water. it was very enlightening to hear all the factors that come into play on a farm.

informative

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