Soil Health as Public Health | Didi Pershouse

Didi Pershouse joins us today to go over why soil health should be treated as public health.
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Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative, and the author of two books: The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities, and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function. Join us and Didi as she talked about how soil health should be viewed as public health.

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00:00 Introduction to Didi Pershouse
05:07 Aspects of health
13:35 Is Soil Alive?
21:01 Infiltration vs Runoff
25:45 The Soil Sponge
37:30 What happens if we lose the soil sponge
39:51 Health effects of drought
42:19 Health effects of flooding
43:20 General health effects of unstable soils
48:09 Care for life

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