Topic: soil loss

In Part I of the Organic vs. Conventional farming series, we made a case against conventional farming. With growing practices involving toxic chemicals, tillage, and heavy irrigation, the rate at which topsoil is being damaged is simply not sustainable. If…

In the Significance of Soil, we learned that, if soil loss continues at its current rate, then all of the world’s topsoil could be gone in 60 years. Two questions that naturally arise are, (1) how are we losing soil at…