This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of soil health and how to use plants to improve it. You will learn about the different types of plants that can be used to improve soil health, as well as the benefits of using plants to improve soil health. You will also learn about the
Soil health is a state of a soil meeting its range of ecosystem functions as appropriate to its environment. In more colloquial terms, the health of soil arises from favorable interactions of all soil components that belong together, as in microbiota, plants and animals. It is possible that a soil can be healthy in terms of ecosystem functioning but not necessarily serve crop production or human nutrition directly, hence the scientific debate on terms and measurements.