Brummet's Conscious Blog

The Science of Soil Today's post was inspired by the Kiss The Ground movie featuring Woody Harrelson among a long list of other influential stars, who discuss the amazing abilities of our soil and how it can help us address climate change.  You can learn more about the movie, various projects and resources at: KissTheGroundMovie.com Check out these other helpful posts we published several years ago on this blog: No-Till Gardening World Soil Day I Dream Of Compost Reversing Desertification Loving Soil Benefits of Compost You may also want to check out: www.soilfoodweb.com  ....*Watch for our upcoming backyard gardening guidebook coming out in 2023/'24 !  In the meantime, check out out Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green, a 2-book series, And our green-living cookbook: From One Small Garden - Over 300 Nutritious Delicious Recipes.  ~~   Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

World Soil Day  I can just hear the eyeballs rolling of our regular readers... "Here she goes" they must be thinking... because I have a huge passion for building healthy soil through composting organic matter. World Soil Day was set aside to help us raise awareness about soil pollution, remediation and composting of organics. Setting up a home-based and office-based compost system is fairly easy now-a-days. There are even condo and apartment units that plug in and dehydrate the organic matter into a dry powder that you can then spread on a lawn, around a tree, place in the plant pots on your deck, or give to a gardener. Buy Now Organics in the landfill are responsible for more toxic leachate, more air pollution than vehicles. They are also responsible for up to 60% of the content in a landfill, filling up these limited waste management sites far too quickly.  Use the small  "search"  box on the side bar of this blog and type in compost or soil to ...