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As Thornton points out, when we fertilize the soil, we are feeding the soil microbes first. According to local holistic veterinarian Dr. Joyce Harman, microbes are the “worker bees” in the lives of plants and animals, including humans: “Without the four pounds of microbes living inside each of us that process our food while we go about our business, we couldn’t survive.” Plants also owe their lives to microbes, which make nutrients from the soil, air, and water available to them.
Microbes are increasingly under siege. We are knowingly or unknowingly waging war against these unseen species by using antibacterial soaps, pesticides, herbicides, commercial fertilizers, antibiotics, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, points out Harman. In the process we could not only be biting the hand that feeds us but also creating monsters that are a serious threat—superstrains of disease-causing microbes that can mutate faster than we can find ways to fight them. A saner approach might be to under
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