Are you a “locavore”?  Do you like eating high-quality foods produced from not too far away, by farmers with real faces and families?

 Dr. Sally Brown of University of Washington, in this recent column in Biocycle magazine, suggests it’s time for a companion “Local Soils” campaign.  She says the key to healthy soils that grow great local foods is organic matter.  And that our local communities produce abundant organic ‘waste’ that is increasingly being recycled at local facilities to generate carbon-rich soils and soil amendments. Sourcing “local soil” for your garden and for local farms closes the carbon loop, so it’s not only an important part of building a locavore economy, but  also contributes to biocarbon, the second solution to climate change.

Read Dr. Brown's column on local soil in BioCycle