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World Soil Day - 5th December
- Dec 08, 2022
- Soil nutrient loss is a major soil degradation process threatening nutrition and is recognized as being among the most important problems at a global level for food security and sustainability all around the globe. World Soil Day 2022 (#WorldSoilDay) and its campaign "Soils: Where food begins" aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management, increasing soil awareness and encouraging societies to improve soil health.
- Taking action at home is a great way to learn more about how soils work, and protecting your own patch is a great first step towards making a difference on a much bigger scale.
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1. Grow Your Own
Growing different vegetables and plants in your garden will help recycle nutrients back into the soil, with the added benefit of reconnecting you with where food comes from.
2. Compost
Organic matter is the parts of soil that originate from plants or animals. It's an essential ingredient in healthy soils, helping it hold onto nutrients and water. In agro ecological ways of farming, like organic, farmers use around 65% more manure and compost! As a result, soil organic matter is higher on organic farms.
3. Grow soil-saving plants
Plants that pull nitrogen from the air help increase the fertility of your soils, while deep-rooting plants stop compaction, promote healthy soil structure, and draw up nutrients deeper in the soil for use by other plants.
4. Speak out for soil
Raising awareness about the issue of soil degradation is really important; let's keep growing this movement from the ground up!
