Contents Preface xiii Introduction From the Ground Up Chapter 1 What You Eat is Made out of Thin Air (and a Tiny Bit of Dirt) Chapter 2 Soil, the Earth's Miracle Skin Chapter 3 The Earth's Kidneys: When Good Soil Turns Bad Chapter 4 Plants Don't Eat Dirt: The Underground Economy Chapter 5 Here, There and Everywhere: The 'Old Friends' Hypothesis Chapter 6 Look After the Soil, and the Plants Look After Us Chapter 7 Nutritional Dark Matter Chapter 8 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Chapter 9 Big Ones, Small Ones, Skinny Ones, Fat Ones: Worms Chapter 10 Bombs, Germs and Plants: 100 Years of Fast Fixes Creating Big Problems Chapter 11 How the Green Revolution is Turning the World Brown Chapter 12 You'll Never Plough a Field by Turning it Over in Your Mind Chapter 13 Burying Charcoal and Building Soil Chapter 14 Weeds: What We Can See Tells Us About What We Can't Chapter 15 Home Gardeners Rock Chapter 16 Compost, Compost and Compost Chapter 17 If it Quacks, is it a Duck? Chapter 18 We Are All, Temporarily, Not Soil Chapter 19 Keep Them Dawgies Movin' Chapter 20 A Grain of Truth: Regenerative Agriculture Chapter 21 What's the Beef with Methane? Chapter 22 Money in the Bank Chapter 23 They Germinated a Seed on the Moon Chapter 24 Loaves and Fishes: Feeding a Hungry World Soil FAQs References & Recommended Reading Acknowledgements Index.