“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
“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
“every seemingly unsolvable problem there was a flip side, an alternative set of strategies that would restore balance to the system. And” — Judith D. Schwartz Problem solving Copy Share Image
“We’ve lost an estimated 50 to 80 percent carbon in our soils over the last 150 years.” — Judith D. Schwartz 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“if you have low crop diversity, you will run into problems and require inputs, which means more technology. In the meantime, nature’s… — Judith D. Schwartz Nature 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“ultimately, quality of health depends on the quality of food, and food can only be as good as the soil on which… — Judith D. Schwartz Health Copy Share Image
“the Keyline system combines the deep-reaching chisel plow with grazing timed so as to stimulate plant growth.” — Judith D. Schwartz 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
“term decision-makers,” says Pokorný. “To the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], we have the atmosphere and in the atmosphere are greenhouse… — Judith D. Schwartz Change 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
“He suggests connections among plant disease, animal morbidity, and human health problems: “Look at what’s happening with autism. With chronic disease and… — Judith D. Schwartz Autism Copy Share Image
“Routine assessments of agricultural soils rarely extend beyond the top 10 to 15 centimeters and are generally limited to determining the status… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Healthy soil is contingent on the actions of the animals that live on the land; livestock could be made to act upon… — Judith D. Schwartz Health Copy Share Image
“the work of Sir Albert Howard (1873–1947) as well—an English botanist and organic pioneer who said that “the health of soil, plant,… — Judith D. Schwartz Health 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 Copy Share Image
“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
