While we are gaining more awareness about the importance of plants, trees, animals & sealife, we must remember how important healthy SOIL is!<\/p>
After all, soil is what gives us our plants & trees - which we need to breathe and eat. Plants & trees not only physically feed us with their amazing magical fruits, seeds, leaves & vegetables (Birch sap is also a well known healthy drink as well as skin nutrient within natural skincare products) but they also provide oxygen through their respiration process, assist in preventing with floods & drought, plus so much more!<\/p>
On top of this, soil helps to purify our water by providing a natural filter (holding back toxins, thus becoming more toxic itself). It also assists in flood management when trees are planted eg Willow trees are often planted by farmers, at riversides because these trees have a high intake of water, so prevent too much water entering fields. Trees assist greatly with soil conservation through also preventing erosion by holding the soil together with their root systems.<\/p>
However, if our soil is unhealthy, where does that leave us?<\/p>
With everything from land fill to pesticides (& other chemicals) over decades, our soil is not only being poisoned but is being destroyed in many other ways too. The main ways contributing to soil loss, are listed below (in no particular order):<\/p>
Overgrazing<\/p><\/li>
Deforestation<\/p><\/li>
Livestock trampling<\/p><\/li>
Mineral Extraction<\/p><\/li>
Drought<\/p><\/li>
Erosion<\/p>
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How many of these unhealthy soil loss causes are natural occurrences though?<\/p>
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The positive is that if we know the causes, we can combat them\u2026 & we must do everything we can, to restore our soil's health & Natural balance. With everything it has provided for us, it is now time to repay the favour\u2026<\/p>
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Furthermore, there is also research to suggest that gardening changes our physiology when we handle soil & has been shown to help with mental illness such as depression. This is apparently due to the natural chemicals & bacteria within soil, interacting with ours.<\/p>
If this is the case, then what effect is unhealthy soil having on our psyche?\u2026and don't think we can escape by avoiding gardening - we consume the products which are grown in today's soil.<\/p>
How can we change things?<\/p>
At roots level (pun intended), we can raise awareness! We can also assist by eating less meat, as this creates less demand for it, which would reduce livestock farming, in turn, Overgrazing & Livestock trampling. We could also decrease (or hopefully eradicate) Mineral extraction by reducing our demand & consumption of fossil fuel energy eg gas, oil & coal, as well as things like gold or gems.<\/p>
However, a large part of soil conservation should be done by industry making changes to ways they operate. For instance, Deforestation & Erosion. Planting trees would tackle both of these issues but so would ending Deforestation.<\/p>
Doing both, would assist the general Climate Change issue enormously, since (as said in a previous blog), trees consume carbon dioxide & give out oxygen. This respiration process helps to balance our environment, as it has a knock on effect on other ecosystems such as our oceans.<\/p>
This is evident with the acidification of our oceans, caused by less carbon dioxide being absorbed by less trees but also our consumption of fossil fuels. The oceans then are tasked with \u2018picking up the slack\u2019 by absorbing the extra atmospheric carbon dioxide, making them more acidic. Since our oceans extract more carbon dioxide & provide more oxygen than trees, we are exasperating & speeding up climate change hugely.<\/p>
It seems we forget that our ecosystems are all connected & creating imbalance in one, upsets another\u2026or maybe it's because there's \u2018no money\u2019 in saving the planet??.<\/p>
..Maybe that's another way we can assist at roots level - creating new & innovative processes which attract industry!.<\/p>
.Where are all those genius engineers & mathematicians?!..\ud83d\ude09\ud83d\ude01<\/p>
Bye for now,<\/p>
Elle Russell (Founder)<\/p>","urlTitle":"we-forgot-about-the-soil","url":"\/blog\/we-forgot-about-the-soil\/","editListUrl":"\/my-blogs","editUrl":"\/my-blogs\/edit\/we-forgot-about-the-soil\/","fullUrl":"https:\/\/egeironaturals.com\/blog\/we-forgot-about-the-soil\/","featured":false,"published":true,"showOnSitemap":true,"hidden":false,"visibility":null,"createdAt":1690206004,"updatedAt":1701137440,"publishedAt":1701137440,"lastReadAt":null,"division":{"id":295283,"name":"Egeiro Productions"},"tags":[],"metaImage":{"original":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/d2xifvmemyfru02rhjxks8lboszwtxt2hkgzodp2qkjh0h5o.jpeg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/d2xifvmemyfru02rhjxks8lboszwtxt2hkgzodp2qkjh0h5o.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/d2xifvmemyfru02rhjxks8lboszwtxt2hkgzodp2qkjh0h5o.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"metaTitle":"","metaDescription":"","keyPhraseCampaignId":null,"series":[],"similarReads":[{"id":40952,"title":"DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH: My Story","url":"\/blog\/disability-awareness-month-july\/","urlTitle":"disability-awareness-month-july","division":295283,"description":"Well with July being Disability Awareness Month, I couldn't not post. This is a cause close to my heart because I am actually physically disabled. I didn't used to be","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/tpnx7vx1sfa8oxh5kim8gkhztvzwdnxwjs4rfikqmp7jxsko.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/tpnx7vx1sfa8oxh5kim8gkhztvzwdnxwjs4rfikqmp7jxsko.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0},{"id":29528,"title":"EGEIRO NATURALS BIO","url":"\/blog\/bio\/","urlTitle":"bio","division":295283,"description":"Inspired by many things & people in life, Nature has always been at the heart of my endeavours, whether it be in art, music (analogue sound waves are an amazing phenomenon of Nature), or food (homegrown tastes the best!) - or in more recent years, skincare (both male & female. Did you know, male skin is less acidic than female skin?!- FUN FACT). With Art, Music & Gardening ingrained in my family & a lifelong fascination of Science, it was inevitable Egeiro Productions would appear eventually","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/wdlx4endd3mdfqrbf8w1lnscno6ep1wirnwwbn50smhhlpjm.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/wdlx4endd3mdfqrbf8w1lnscno6ep1wirnwwbn50smhhlpjm.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0},{"id":30346,"title":"NATURAL PROACTIVE AGEING SERUM","url":"\/blog\/natural-proactive-ageing-serum\/","urlTitle":"natural-proactive-ageing-serum","division":295283,"description":"Firstly, what does \u201cProActive Ageing\u201d mean?It is the new way of looking at how we age. It replaces the well known & now outdated views on Ageing, by challenging the concept of \u201cAnti-Ageing\u201d where we have been conditioned to reverse the natural process & features of getting older by any means possible - including synthetic chemicals. In \u201cProActive Ageing\u201d, we take the new approach of embracing the Ageing process & celebrating it from a natural standpoint","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/f76o5elz5w41vmomtzh0edhfvzmxi9hz8eqla9txb9evijcm.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855&z=1.1&fx=0.54545454545455&fy=0.45454545454545","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/f76o5elz5w41vmomtzh0edhfvzmxi9hz8eqla9txb9evijcm.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440&z=1.1&fx=0.54545454545455&fy=0.45454545454545"},"hidden":0}],"labels":[]}