Modern farming practices are destroying vital soil ecologies, and our patch work solutions aren’t making things any better. Today we are joined by Dr. Elaine Ingham, a leading soil ecologist who has established the Soil Food Web School, a platform that teaches people how to optimize their growing operation and advocates the return to greener practices. We discuss how we can repair the land using simple, natural, systems, and how in doing so we heal the planet by increasing carbon sequestration, depolluting water supply systems, catalyzing environmental justice and so much more.Topics covered:Soil health before human influencePractical ways we can rebuild microbial populations for healthier soilSpecialized relationships between soil fungi and plantsSuccessions of ecosystem health from the soil to mature plantsThe adversaries of inorganic fertilizers Analyzing ratios of the fungal and bacterial needs to grow healthy plantsCultivating and sourcing biocomplete compostIndustrial level compost production and soil remediationCarbon sequestration in soil healthShow notes:Soil Food Web website: https://www.soilfoodweb.com/Dr. Ingham’s published work on soil ecology: https://www.soilfoodweb.com/publications/