The Regenerative Ag Podcast Episode 153 - Soil, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge

Overall, in modern agriculture, there's this idea of soil as a resource base. There's very little understanding of how soil works as an organism, as a hydrology, as a system. This has never been looked into. In fact, modern agriculture sort of depends on soil being inert, inactive, dead. Like, the less the soil is doing, in many ways, the better, because then the more variables you can control. Right. The soil is something to transform into a particular state, very fine, ready for seeding. Maybe it needs irrigating, but really, we're not even talking about soil. It's the plants that need the irrigating. Right. So the soil is trying to make it disappear, and that is the understanding of soil that has been created also through this idea of what constitutes good agriculture.