Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

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Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language,
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Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language, the authors make the benefits of cultivating the soil food web available to a wide audience, from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals.

Editorial Reviews

Anchorage Daily News
"Read this book and you'll never think of soil the same way."
Detroit News
"[This book] is a must read for any gardener looking to create a sustainable, healthy garden without chemicals."
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Nature's Way Resources
"This is the most complete book on the market about biological or organic methods in horticulture...highly recommended for all gardeners, landscapers, or anyone taking care of a lawn or garden."
Pacific Horticulture
"This is sure to gain that well-thumbed look than any good garden book acquires as it is referred to repeatedly over the years."
Rockland Courier-Gazette
"For years, we've thought of the 'food chains' in our environment. Lowenfels and Lewis explain an even more wonderful idea: the 'soil food web.' Read Teaming with Microbes and keep it or give it to the library so others may learn of this astounding way to grow vegetables, trees, lawns."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"This book has all the best dirt on all the best dirt. It...explains the basics of good soil practices, and it's written especially for home gardeners.
The Oregonian
"All good gardeners know healthy plants start with healthy soil. But why? And how? In Teaming with Microbes Lowenfels and Lewis reveal the new research in the most practical and accessible way."
— Kym Pokorny
Virginian-Pilot
"It takes readers underground to meet the critters that live if you let them under the garden."
Washington Gardener
"The authors have given gardeners an inside scoop on the scientific research supporting organic gardening."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781604691139
  • Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/24/2010
  • Pages: 220
  • Sales rank: 98,210
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeff Lowenfels has been writing a weekly column for the Anchorage Daily News since 1977. A member of the Garden Writers of America Hall of Fame, he is a leading proponent of gardening using the concepts of the soil food web. After working at his father's hobby farm in his youth, he developed a life-long love of gardening that has led him to writing countless articles, hosting a popular gardening television show, and founding a successful program for soup kitchens called "Plant a Row for the Hungry" that is active in 48 states and has resulted in over 14 million meals fed to those in need. A native New Yorker, he is a Harvard graduate and now works as an attorney in Alaska.

Wayne Lewis is a lifelong Alaskan gardener. He has worked with Jeff Lowenfels on many projects over the past 25 years, including the now national Plant a Row for the Hungry program (started in Anchorage by Jeff), which encourages gardeners to donate a portion of their harvest to charitable organizations in their community.

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  • Posted March 18, 2012

    Excellent

    amazing what goes on in the garden that cannot be seen with our eyes.

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  • Posted May 9, 2010

    Everyone interested in the health of our soils should read this book.

    Anyone interested in the improving the quality of their gardens, lawns, shrubs and trees should read this book.

    We take our soils for granted, remember the dust bowls in the 1930's? It was caused by the ignorance of US Government encouraging farming in a prairie grass ecosystem ill equipped to handle the mechanical tilling and drought conditions of this mid-west region.

    If you are interested in Organic gardening this is a must read book. The revised edition (2010) includes a new chapter on mycorrhizae, which are fascinating fungi that grow in and around plants.

    Learn about mulch, compost, earthworms and other soil organisms, compost and worm teas, soil science, and the soil food web.

    This book is a treat for all soil lovers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 21, 2007

    Don't miss it.

    Wow. This is an outstanding book for ALL gardeners. It is so well written and the information is so usable. Get it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 15, 2006

    Best Gardening book EVER

    Who knew. After you read this book, you will. The authors make the science fun and is it ever eye opening! You will never garden the same away again.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 20, 2006

    WOW

    A must. Get this book. Read it. Study it. Do it. I saw an advanced copy. Wowie. This is going to change the way we garden. no more chemicals....Whoppppie

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2006

    Forget what you think you know

    If you don't read this book, you don't know what you don't know. Everything about gardening naturally-organically, becomes clear after you read this terrific book. Whew. What I learned. I will never garden the same and you won't either, I am betting

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    Posted February 21, 2010

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