This is Didi Pershouse’s expanded version of the USDA-NRCS Soil Health Division’s soil health principles.

It is rare to find a single leverage point to effect change and create multiple benefits to the world around us. The “soil sponge,” lowly as it sounds, might just be that perfect leverage point for effective community investment, because it is the basic infrastructure that makes life on land possible.

A joint project of The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, The USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub, The Soil Carbon Coalition, Redlands Community College, and The Dixon Water Foundation.