Knowing Soils: An Anthropology of Agricultural Knowledge
On 27 and 28 January 2017, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress” at the University of...
Soils are an interdisciplinary medium
Like a weevil in a flour jar, a mole in a hole, an earthworm in a pile of loam. This is how I felt during the inaugural Soil Care Network...
Talking dirty
It is widely acknowledged that, in public engagement some science and technology topics are a slightly easier ‘sell’ than others. Where...
Close encounters among the plant kind: proliferating plant companions
When I was a child, my grandfather grew intoxicatingly fragrant rose bushes, spaced one metre apart. I would follow him around the garden...
