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| 1. History of the GGA | ||
| 2. Our Aims | ||
| 3. Meet our Director/Co-ordinator | ||
| 2. Our Aims | ||
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Working with Life in our Soil |
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What can we do to get the essential nutrients back into our food?
Good Gardeners encourage the forming of mycorrhiza (a symbiotic relationship between plant roots, soil fungi and living creatures). By not digging the soil but feeding it with compost we can increase our food’s nutritional qualities. 95% of the world's 250,000 plant species form a symbiotic relationship with at least one soil fungus to form ‘mycorrhiza’. It’s an amazing relationship! The fungi harmlessly colonise plant roots and explore the soil to obtain nutrients, which are supplied to their plant host. In return, they receive carbohydrates from the plant. |
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Modern agriculture and gardening methods destroy the life in our soil by turning the mycorrhizal world upside down, drying out and ripping apart delicate fungalnetworks. The addition of chemicals makes things worse!
Good soil is a sustainable home for billions of life forms. Bacteria, protozoa, fungi, worms, beetles... When these organisms live in the right balance, soil structure is enhanced and the flow of nutrients from soil to plant is increased. |
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| For healthy nutritious food .... | ||
| ....we must work with nature not against it | ||