Supper With Soil

One teaspoon of soil contains more organisms than there are people on the earth, creatures they are not only live in the soil but they are soil. Each of these microbe types has a different job to boost soil and plant health, they regulate nutrients to plants and fix nutrition, and promote detoxification of naturally occurring pollutants in soil and reduce the risk to human and non-human health. The kind of microbes present at any time depends very much on soil conditions such as moisture, temperature, texture, pH, chemicals present, and available food. Use of pesticides worsens the living condition for many microorganisms in the soil and artificial fertiliser which was brought as a solution to feed the world but made soil polluted and deeply disturbed ecological cycle. We can always team up with microbial life to boost soil fertility. instead of generating excessing waste, by composting organic matter to the soil we assist and participate in the natural earth cycle of decay, decomposition and breakdown. "The Poetic of Food Health” is about how to regenerate the soil with excess food waste. Throughout the project, I read many articles about soil nutrition and visited expert farmers and gardeners to learn more about different techniques of composting and as a result, I made a human-style cookbook for soil. I used our own very human skills of cooking, with the historical methods like fermenting and culturing to craft something nutritional for micro-organism in the soil. By taking the time to craft each recipe I aim to show care and appreciation to soil creatures, to think about their needs and what might improve their health. Some recipes are based on Indigenous people’s methods, who used to collect, culture and cultivates microbes and give them back to the soil and some recopies are based on different techniques of composting.  Throughout the research, I’ve been thinking a lot about the human soil relationship. To change this relationship first we need to stop thinking of soil as dirt, but as something alive with the need for food and care. I’ve also been thinking a lot around the meaning of care. If care includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world, then taking time to craft each recipe and think about soil creature needs and what might improve their health, is care and appreciation to them and finally, it helps to minimise any detrimental effect on the environment. “The Poetic of Soil Health” is an invitation to a movement of exploring a contemporary transformation in human-soil relations and aims to inspire and encourage the creative community for a continues care as a requisite for successful repair of our environment. For soil, for life, forever. One teaspoon of soil contains more organisms than there are people on the earth, creatures they are not only live in the soil but they are soil. Each of these microbe types has a different job to boost soil and plant health, they regulate nutrients to plants and fix nutrition, and promote detoxification of naturally occurring pollutants in soil and reduce the risk to human and non-human health. The kind of microbes present at any time depends very much on soil conditions such as moisture, temperature, texture, pH, chemicals present, and available food. Use of pesticides worsens the living condition for many microorganisms in the soil and artificial fertiliser which was brought as a solution to feed the world but made soil polluted and deeply disturbed ecological cycle. We can always team up with microbial life to boost soil fertility. instead of generating excessing waste, by composting organic matter to the soil we assist and participate in the natural earth cycle of decay, decomposition and breakdown. "The Poetic of Food Health” is about how to regenerate the soil with excess food waste. Throughout the project, I read many articles about soil nutrition and visited expert farmers and gardeners to learn more about different techniques of composting and as a result, I made a human-style cookbook for soil. I used our own very human skills of cooking, with the historical methods like fermenting and culturing to craft something nutritional for micro-organism in the soil. By taking the time to craft each recipe I aim to show care and appreciation to soil creatures, to think about their needs and what might improve their health. Some recipes are based on Indigenous people’s methods, who used to collect, culture and cultivates microbes and give them back to the soil and some recopies are based on different techniques of composting.  Throughout the research, I’ve been thinking a lot about the human soil relationship. To change this relationship first we need to stop thinking of soil as dirt, but as something alive with the need for food and care. I’ve also been thinking a lot around the meaning of care. If care includes everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our world, then taking time to craft each recipe and think about soil creature needs and what might improve their health, is care and appreciation to them and finally, it helps to minimise any detrimental effect on the environment. “The Poetic of Soil Health” is an invitation to a movement of exploring a contemporary transformation in human-soil relations and aims to inspire and encourage the creative community for a continues care as a requisite for successful repair of our environment. For soil, for life, forever.