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Who is Dr Christine Jones?
To the pressing worldwide challenge of restoring soil carbon and rebuilding topsoil, the Australian soil ecologist Dr. Christine Jones offers an accessible, revolutionary perspective for improving landscape health and farm productivity.
How long does Jones live in soil?
Animals affected with Johne’s disease eventually shed the organism in their manure, with the number of organisms increasing through time. The Johne’s organism can live for up to 18 months in soil or manure, depending on environmental conditions.
What is amazing carbon for?
The soluble carbon exuded into the rhizosphere by perennial groundcover plants and/or transported deep into soil by mycorrhizal fungi, provides energy for the vast array of microbes and soil invertebrates that produce sticky substances enabling soil particles to be glued together into lumps (aggregates).
What is the liquid carbon pathway?
The Liquid Carbon Pathway (LCP) is a symbiotic relationship between myccorhizal fungi and 90% of all plants that has developed over the past 420 million years. Plants will purposely produce extra carbohydrates (simple plant sugars) then exude that surplus into the soil to feed the fungi.
Can you create new soil?
New research is showing that it is possible to make new, nutrient rich, productive soil on your farm without waiting for eons, simply by changing your crop rotation and management.
Can we make new soil?
In order for new soil to form, it must be living. Life in the soil provides the structure for more life, and the formation of more soil. Building new topsoil is much like building a house (Bushby 2002). A good house is one which is comfortable for the occupants.
What is light farming?
Growing crops under artificial light is a revolutionary scientific farm practice. Initially, vertical farms used fluorescent lights to support the crop growth. However, with the development of LED light technology, fluorescent lights are slowly being replaced by the new, energy-efficient bulbs.
What is artificial soil?
The artificial soil composition includes peat, granular soil, sewage sediment formed by the treatment of urban waste for example and pulp sludge formed by the de-watering of fibrous material and is a byproduct of the manufacture of paper from wood pulp.
Is the earth’s soil dying?
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a third of the world’s soil is now moderately to highly degraded. The processes that generate high-quality, fertile topsoil can take centuries. But the world is ploughing through that resource at an alarming rate.
Is the soil dead?
Soil is not just little bits of sand, silt and clay with some old dead plants mixed in. A healthy soil is alive with many living things, most of them too small for us to see with only our eyes. There are more living things in a lump of healthy soil the size of your big toe than there are people on Earth right now…
What is vertical farming technology?
Vertical farming is an energy intensive system of crop production involving integration of multiple technologies such as big data analytics, robotics, internet of things, artificial intelligence etc. so that crops can grow well without any agronomic constraint.
Can soil be man made?
This process of producing man-made-soil was named “soilification”. The so-called man-made-soil can then be used as a fertiliser for agriculture or used as a soil source for filling up landscapes and deposit sites to prevent a wash out of soil pollutants.
Can humans make soil?
Soils formed by human activity are given a variety of names: Anthrosol, Technosol, Terra preta or Anthropic Soil. Soil taxonomy often distinguishes human-modified soils and places them in their own category, different from natural soils.
Will we ever run out of soil?
In the US alone, soil on cropland is eroding 10 times faster than it can be replenished. If we continue to degrade the soil at the rate we are now, the world could run out of topsoil in about 60 years, according to Maria-Helena Semedo of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
Can soil become extinct?
Even after harvest, the land is kept bare and exposed most of the time. This leads to Soil extinction- which means, the soil is losing its organic content and is turning into sand.
Will we run out of soil?
Dr Christine Jones is an active participant and supporter of an Australian movement into a Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme.
What is the liquid carbon pathway to soil?
Dr Christine Jones: Liquid Carbon Pathway to Soil. In this clip, Dr Christine Jones explains one of the two main pathways to soil which is the Liquid Carbon Pathway. This process will support the microbial activity that will not only sustain the growth of the plant and soil on the surface but also down below the subsoil.
Why is carbon solid in the soil?
Food security, the nutrient density of food and the water-holding capacity of the soil are also very potent reasons for keeping carbon in a solid phase in the soil. ACRES U.S.A. Your term “liquid carbon” is such a brilliant phrase.
Why choose Christine for regenerative land management?
With numerous journals and publications produced on regenerative land management techniques, Christine possesses ample knowledge in regards to the treatment and maintenance of Australia’s lush and vast environmental resources.