Most plants depend on soil, and soil depends on microbes. Using them to revitalize unhealthy soils could improve ecosystems and feed our growing population.

Credits
Reporter: Amanda CoulsonDrasner
Camera: Chris Caurla
Video Editor: Amanda CoulsonDrasner
Graphics: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Malte RohwerKahlmann, Joanna Gottschalk & Kiyo Dörrer
Special thanks to: Stephen Wood

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an ecofriendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #SaveSoil #Microbes

Read More:
Permafuture Farm:   / perma_future  

Importance of Soil Microbes: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4157...

Microbial Biofertilizers: https://www.mdpi.com/20770472/11/2/163

Seed coatings: https://www.mdpi.com/20770472/10/11/526

Rewilding with Microbes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

Agriculture Benefiting Microbes: https://drawdown.org/solutions/regene...

Images from:
ARTISMicropia Museum: https://www.micropia.nl/en/
Gene Drendel:   / gene.drendel  
and Jennifer Wood: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/j5wood

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 What is soil?
04:23 What does degraded mean?
06:18 From the ground up
07:53 Microbes from the lab
08:53 Issues
09:35 Conclusion