2.1.2 Starting where we want to be

Yes, we’re beginning with our goal! A healthy soil! To understand where we want to get to, we need to grasp what a healthy soil is and why it matters. What we cover in this module lays a foundation to what we’ll be exploring in the rest of the course.

You will find there are two major groups of players to pay special attention to, and these are soil microorganisms and plants. This first module focuses in on these, and what the interplay between them can accomplish. There are actually a whole host of examples when it comes to this, but we’re going to focus on three important ones, and they are nutrition, climate and soil structure. We’ve chosen these for their broad relevance and because they demonstrate the wider impacts of soil health and how the health of our planet and of ourselves connect back to the health of the soil.