MEET THE REAL WORLD WIDE WEB
Many experts believe that through the overuse of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and heavy tillage we have unwittingly devastated those soil organisms essential to plant health. These soil microorganisms, particularly bacteria and fungi, form symbiotic relationships with plant roots, providing nutrients in a form that plants can assimilate. Human life simply can’t exist without this complex underground ecological system – the soil food web.
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF YOUR SOIL
On the surface, soil may not appear all that exciting, but it’s actually the second most diverse ecosystem on this planet behind coral reefs. Beneath our feet lives a complex underworld and interdependent web of microorganisms such as algae, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes and arthropods, to name but a few. In one handful of soil there are more living things than there are people on earth, most of which are invisible to the naked eye, and yet they play a key part in the health and functioning of our soils. Without this concealed world, our planet and the
