The soil food web is the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil. It describes a complex living system in the soil and how it interacts with the environment, plants, and animals.

When we shop at the grocery store today, we don't bat an eye at the sight of strawberries in the winter or perfect tomatoes from Holland. In the space of a generation, we've become accustomed to eating food that's never grown roots in local soil. In fact, most produce grown in the United States travels an average of 1,500 miles before it gets sold.

Food is not what it used to be. In the relatively recent past, food was universally recognized as the fruits and nuts that grow on trees, the vegetables that grow out of the soil, plus some fish and game. If you were to take a ride in a time machine and show our ancestors what we eat today, they would recognize very little of it.

Organic food is that which is grown without the help of pesticides, fertilizers, or chemicals. The primary goal of organic agriculture is "to optimize the health. of soil , plants, animals and people" and thereby aims at producing food that is as ‘natural’ as possible.

Edible Fruit TreesThis lense is devoted to providing you with the knowledge of how to fill your garden with trees that produce edible fruit. Fruit are a complete and wholesome food.Edible fruit trees take advantage of Mother Nature's natural resources systemand deliver shade, soil conditioning, food for wildlife and food for humans and animals.

Lecture given to Soil Association on biofuels vs. food.