

Dave&Anne
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@Dig2Grow
David Montgomery & Anne Biklé. It's a tangled relationship - soil, nature, and people. The saga continues in our latest book, What Your Food Ate.








People are often surpised to learn how slow soil microbes grow because we only see how quickly they can grow on rotting food or petri dishes. Great to see this elegant study quantify this! Even healthy soils are a food and water desert at the microbial scale.

Excited to have the cover story in @sciencemagazine this week - or perhaps I should say, to partner with fungi on the cover. Fungi partner with nearly all of Earth's land plants to forge ecosystems that we depend on, but scientists are only beginning to understand...



Soil organic matter is a complex mixture of #plant, animal, or microbial-derived residues at various stages of decomposition. Plants and #microbial communities are usually the biggest contributors to #soil organic matter. Learn more here: bit.ly/3zEJ9eC



Guess what? "What Your Food Ate" by David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé of @Dig2Grow is our July Book of the Month! And please join us for an in-store event with the authors TOMORROW at 6pm. Save 25% on your copy and RSVP here: bit.ly/3n5dnQk @wwnorton🥕@UWEnvironment






