The Soil Stewardship Handbook is your personal guide to thriving and sustainability through your connection with living soil. Presented in a friendly, “guild-style” format, it’s filled with easy-to-do activities, life-hacks, and regenerative practices for the home, garden, school, and community. Accessible to all ages and experience levels, this handbook empowers teachers, parents, and community leaders to foster health and well-being at individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Discover how to: Enhance creativity, health, and well-being - Reverse climate change by sequestering carbon - Heal our environments and restore ecosystems Join the global Soil Stewardship Guild movement —and dig into a lifestyle of regeneration, connection, and sustainability wherever you are. "Soil stewardship is not a partisan issue. It is essential to our society. As we each cultivate our victory gardens, we will establish the kind of liberty and grounded democracy that our forebears envisioned for us. This Soil Stewardship Handbook is an excellent tool for us to engage with this critical mission and quest." --Michael Bowman, Founding Board Chair, National Hemp Association and Chairman, Hemp for Victory Campaign, Founding Director, "25x'25" "With his inspirational, aspirational, beautifully-informed and historically grounded handbook, Perry has given us a new appreciation for soil and its good works. Everyone who has ever enjoyed gardening will connect the dots as Perry reconnects us with an earthly wisdom that is as threatened now as the soil in which it dwells. This is an important little book that can be of immediate use to anyone who wants to help restore a greener Earth." --Adrian Del Caro, Author of Grounding the Nietzsche Rhetoric of Earth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville "I'm delighted to see the embrace of soil as a climate solution in the Soil Stewardship Guild. This handbook provides a nicely explained overview of the science with an inclusion of several easy steps that people can take to realize a regenerative future. Thank you for this contribution." --Seth Itzkan, Co-founder, Co-director, Soil4Climate Inc. "All life starts and ends with earth. The Soil Stewardship Handbook looks at our connections to the soil and the way that relationship can affect so many aspects of life. A cool resource and a creative perspective on a subject all too often not considered." --Tanner Watt, Director of Partnership and Development, REVERB "The Soil Stewardship Handbook is timely and empowering. The health of a community depends on the health of its soils and a new generation of farmers, gardeners and citizens are leading the way in creating systems to restore soil health and connect people with nourishing food. Learning about the power of soil and engaging in soil-building practices is an exciting way to positively influence your families, communities and planet. Roll your sleeves up and dig in!" --Mark Guttridge, Ollin Farms Dear Friend, I am thrilled and grateful that you have this Soil Stewardship Handbook before you.   As we explore in the Handbook, by cultivating a personal relationship with soil, we unlock the door to a vast realm of physical, mental and spiritual growth, health and vitality. We also join with millions of other human beings alive on the planet--right now--who are making THRIVING and SUSTAINABILITY a priority in their lives and communities as well. As this noble movement grows and develops, it will form the bedrock and will embody the guiding light of care and stewardship that will help us create a beautiful culture and future together--one marked by compassion, abundance, regeneration and wisdom. A culture of thriving and sustainability.  I want to personally welcome you to this individual quest and great global movement. We are embarking on an awesome adventure together--a fun-filled and health-enhancing adventure of a lifetime! By incorporating simple life-hacks and cultivating soil stewardship practices, you will enhance the strength of this movement, while enhancing your own health and well-being. You will get smarter, feel better and heal the planet--our only planet, our home, our Earth. The Y on Earth team and I hope you will join our Y on Earth Community, take the "Soil Stewardship Pledge" at the end of this book and help create the future we really want--a future that is right at our fingertips! Gratefully in service and celebration, Aaron William Perry Y on Earth Community Colorado 2018 "Informative, motivational, and instructive, this Soil Stewardship Handbook guides us through daily life practices and decisions to improve our quality of life and help heal the planet--wherever we are!" --Brad Lidge, 2008 World Series Champ, Philadelphia Phillies "The Soil Stewardship Handbook contains a plan for action on what and how we must all take action now to help nourish the soil that is so vital for the well being of humanity and health of our planet." --Brigitte M