The Soil Food Web - Your microbial employees
- Mar 30, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: May 30, 2022
The benefits
Discover how the soil food web works in harmony with plants to produce a number of benefits including:
Increased Yields
Protection from Pests and Diseases
Reduced Irrigation Requirements
No need for Fertilizers
Weed Suppression
Protection against Soil Erosion
Carbon Sequestration
Protection of Insects and Birds
What is the soil food web and how does it work?
The soil food web is the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil. It describes a complex living system in the soil and how it interacts with the environment, plants, and animals.
Food webs describe the transfer of energy between species in an ecosystem. While a food chain examines one, linear, energy pathway through an ecosystem, a food web is more complex and illustrates all of the potential pathways. Much of this transferred energy comes from the sun. Plants use the sun’s energy to convert inorganic compounds into energy-rich, organic compounds, turning carbon dioxide and minerals into plant material by photosynthesis. Plant flowers exude energy-rich nectar above ground and plant roots exude acids, sugars, and ectoenzymes into the rhizosphere, adjusting the pH and feeding the food web underground.
The microorganisms of the soil food web are eager to exchange nutrients for food with your crop and will be your best worker if you allow them to thrive!
To maintain a functional and healthy soil food web it is important to keep moisture level sufficient and to reduce tillage as much as possible. This allows the microorganism to establish, multiply and become your strongest workforce.
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