In Soil Alive, Edward Chalk takes readers beneath the surface of ordinary gardening advice into the hidden world where roots, fungi, microbes, minerals, and plant signals work together to create health, resilience, and growth.
With clarity, warmth, and a sharp eye for what gardeners actually experience, Chalk shows why plants so often struggle in modern soils, what mycorrhizal networks really do, how plants and fungi formed one of the oldest partnerships on earth, and why restoring the biology of the soil can change everything from nutrient uptake to vigour, stress tolerance, and long-term fertility.
Blending practical insight with a deeper vision of how living systems function, Soil Alive leads the reader from first principles to action: what is happening in the soil, why it matters, and what you can do to begin repairing it.
