If you're already on to this, I highly recommend watching "Symphony of the Soil". It's a fantastic movie all about this, I really think it should be required watching in primary education.

See: Symphony Of The Soil Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRNF_1X2fU

That was great! A little preachy in places but overall very good. Cheers!

I had mentioned Gabe Brown's work here ~3 months ago:

"Gabe Brown has been doing regenerative agriculture for over two decades on Brown's Ranch, over 2000 acres, in Bismarck, North Dakota successfully. Food crops plus cover crops plus livestock, all integrated. Lot of good results compared to neighboring farmers doing the traditional synthetic fertilizer / pesticide / tilling / monoculture approach. There are others like him too. ..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799715

Others have been mentioning his work here too:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

There are a few false positives (wrong term?) in the search results; could try putting his name in quotes in the above Algolia search or use some other option. I will try that myself.

> I am coming around to the POV that soil should be thought of as a kind of organism.

More people need to realize this! Healthy soils are enormously rich ecosystems. They're also fundamental to the water and carbon cycles. Soils are cumulatively a much larger carbon sink than the atmosphere, for instance.