“By planting annuals and plowing and clearing so that the soil is open to the elements for much of the year, we’re… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“findings suggest that the use of glyphosate—currently applied to hundreds of millions of acres of the world’s crop-growing land—has multiple harmful effects… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Bare ground devoid of plant cover retains heat and has little moisture to spare. Radiation from the sun, then, just sits there… — Judith D. Schwartz Life Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about the need to plant trees, but trees can’t take in all that carbon, nor do they have the ‘pulsing’… — Judith D. Schwartz Life Copy Share Image
“The use of chemical fertilizers and other treatments has increased worldwide as large tracts of agricultural land are turned over to commodity… — Judith D. Schwartz Agriculture Copy Share Image
“Here in the United States, we’re even kept in the dark as to whether the food we buy contains genetically modified substances,… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“the planet’s current vegetative cover captures around 3000 EJ of the sun’s energy. This photosynthetic capacity would appear to be sufficient to… — Judith D. Schwartz Climate Copy Share Image
“fundamental link between our economic and ecological cycles.” And the importance of recharging the soil, to keep the ground covered and get… — Judith D. Schwartz Gardening Copy Share Image
“Allan Savory’s belief that drought and floods are man-made and therefore not inevitable opens the way for a different response. With this… — Judith D. Schwartz Faith Copy Share Image
“it turns out, is the natural and the most cost-effective carbon sink. According to Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio… — Judith D. Schwartz Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
“Here the goals of improving land and making a profit would not be mutually exclusive: Holistic Planned Grazing requires a lot of… — Judith D. Schwartz Agriculture Copy Share Image
“grasslands, grazing mammals, and pack-hunting predators evolved together. So if domestic herbivores can be managed such that their behavior mimics that of… — Judith D. Schwartz Grasslands Copy Share Image
“using Holistic Management (with cattle, sheep, goats, horses) or other restorative models (agroforestry, pasture cropping, natural sequence farming), and those islands of… — Judith D. Schwartz Environment Copy Share Image
“we learn that the way to deal with our carbon dioxide problem is through technology (low-carbon energy sources; whiz-bang contraptions to capture… — Judith D. Schwartz Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
“Consider that farmers are sued when genetically manipulated seeds they don’t even want sprout on their soil. (The pretext: This is “patent… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“the Soil Carbon Challenge measures carbon levels over ten years. Someone at a university, completing a PhD or seeking publication, has incentives… — Judith D. Schwartz Climate Copy Share Image
“Allan Savory has said that floods and droughts are man-made. At first glance this seems a bold, even brazen statement. But here’s… — Judith D. Schwartz Floods Copy Share Image
“Science has never succeeded by burying the manifestations of unintended consequences. It has succeeded when we recognize them and deal with those… — Judith D. Schwartz Belief Copy Share Image
“I’d read and heard so much about the model; it was my reporting on Holistic Management that drew my attention to soil… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The stark fact that appears now, and which wrote itself across the Roman Empire, is that debt and taxation increase as the… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“In 2010 Grasslands, LLC, was launched as a “triple bottom line” enterprise with the conjoint goals of creating a high-quality product (well-nourished… — Judith D. Schwartz Bottom line Copy Share Image
“It turns out that accelerated topsoil formation is doable, with the tools required as modest as livestock, hole digging, organic amendments, and… — Judith D. Schwartz Topsoil Copy Share Image
“Across the board, levels of key mineral nutrients—zinc, calcium, manganese, iron, copper—in our food crops have declined by an average of 50… — Judith D. Schwartz Crops Copy Share Image
“It’s become a truism that future wars will be fought not over oil, but over water. According to the journal Nature, four-fifths… — Judith D. Schwartz Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“proverb from the Sanskrit Vedic Scriptures of around 1500 bce: “Upon this handful of soil our survival depends. Husband it and it… — Judith D. Schwartz Nature of man Copy Share Image
“This leads to drought and runoff, which then causes erosion and floods. However, this situation can be reversed by managing land in… — Judith D. Schwartz Erosion Copy Share Image
“more leaves mean more photosynthesis. Robust leaves also mean more roots, which means more carbon streaming into the soil. Which means, at… — Judith D. Schwartz Photosynthesis Copy Share Image
“Globally, each year some seventy-five billion tons of soil is lost. That would cover about thirty-eight thousand square miles of arable land,… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The EPA continues to classify Roundup as low-toxicity, despite numerous studies that have linked glyphosate itself or inert ingredients in Roundup to… — Judith D. Schwartz Birth defects Copy Share Image
“we probably know of less than 1 percent of soil biology. “A recent study found that there are more than 1.6 million… — Judith D. Schwartz Bacteria Copy Share Image
“from the soil’s or soil dweller’s perspective, chemical additives are not such a great thing. With zai, the organic matter in the… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Nature is complex, functioning at a level beyond our perception. If basic degenerative diseases go down, the demands for pharmaceuticals are lower.… — Judith D. Schwartz Nature Copy Share Image
“Every field that’s turned into a parking lot or industrial park means more water siphoned off into gutters and culverts and less… — Judith D. Schwartz Rain Copy Share Image
