How can we protect our soils?

Soils have a wide range of functions and provide diverse services to ecosystems and so warrant even greater protection. We must use them in a more sustainable way as only then will future generations be able to benefit from healthy soils.

Our actions in daily life can help to maintain and protect the soils. What we as consumers buy will determine whether agriculture in Switzerland can become sustainable: buy seasonal foodstuffs produced regionally, if possible organic and give up meat on certain days.

Irrespective of whether you have an allotment, a domestic garden or just a balcony, we can all do something to protect soils. Organic gardens help to maintain the diversity of species on both the land and in the soil. Composting plays an important role, because it converts waste into valuable, nutrient-rich humus. It is also very important for the soil animals that the soil is always covered and vegetated, because many of the organisms feed on plant remains.

The soil makes sounds

The project Sounding Soil gives the soil a voice

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