GIVE BACK TO THE GARDEN: PAUL TAYLOR TEACHES “LIVING SOILS”
For far too long, mankind has viewed soil as a dead substance, something to be sucked dry of its remaining vitality before moving on to cultivate another patch of land. At the same time, we’ve also viewed anything other than what we’ve defined as the harvest to be waste—something to also be discarded and left behind.
Living Soils for Vital Food, a five-day (January 18th-January 22nd) workshop taught by organic soil management specialist Paul Taylor, is designed to change that. This course will transform the way that participants view soil and fertilizers while giving them the necessary knowledge to put these new perspectives into practice.
Taylor is an experienced educator, with Australian Federal Government FarmReady approval. He also holds a Certificate IV in Education, Training, and Assessment which qualifies him to teach under the federal Vocational Education and Training guidelines. For more than three decades, Paul has been studying and practicing organic farming methods and using them to restore degraded agricultural land, and he thrives on sharing those years of experience with his students.
LIVING SOILS: COMPLEX, CRUCIAL
“Dirt” is spoken of derisively; it’s easy to trample all over it without a second thought. Yet, soil is one of the essential ingredients for supporting life on Earth. And speaking of our planet, we didn’t name it after water, or the light of our sun, or even ourselves: We named it after the humble soil beneath our feet: earth.
To understand sustainability, to put good food growing practices to work, and to usher in an era where we stop treating our planet like something disposable, we must—literally—start from the ground up, transforming our former understanding as we go.
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