How healthy soils make for a healthy life
- Written by Ee Ling Ng, Research fellow, University of Melbourne
Soils play an important role in the nutritional value of our food. The next time you bite into an apple, spare a thought for the soils that helped to produce it. Soils play a vital role, not just in an apple’s growth, but in our own health too.
The formation of soil, pedogenesis, is a very slow process. Creating one millimetre of soil...





