Our Soil is Dying…, What Can We Do About It?

Y.M. Saegusa
Satoyama
Published in
6 min readJul 30, 2021

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Soil is one of the least understood but most important requirements for sustainable agriculture

Photo by Tati y Adri on Unsplash

Soil is living. Soil contains living organisms such as worms, fungi, insects, and other organic matter.

A single handful of healthy soil contains more than 50 billion life forms. To put things in perspective, the global population currently sits at about 7.8 billion…

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Y.M. Saegusa
Satoyama

Advocate for regenerative agriculture and environmentally sustainable living. Future homestead owner. Editor of https://medium.com/satoyama