Welcome to Soil Voices
Set up in 2020 by Jude Allen and Isla Robertson, and part of Our Living Soil, Soil Voices builds connections between writers, soil practitioners, food producers and consumers.
Healthy soils are also a major store of carbon. If we degrade and erode our soils through unsustainable agriculture, pollute them with chemicals, or seal them under concrete with urban development, our soils cannot function as they should. As a result, the billions of tons of carbon that can be stored in our soil are released into the atmosphere, adding to the climate crisis.
We raise awareness of the importance of soil, particularly amongst people who are not normally interested in it, by bringing soil back into the heart of human storytelling culture. We gather stories that reconnect us to the soil, reintroducing lost experiences and knowledge of how much all of us depend on the stuff that is beneath our feet. We want to get people excited about soil, and bring it back into our conversations, building connections between writers, soil practitioners, food producers and consumers. We want you to love soil in the way that it should be loved!
Jude has a PhD in Human/Animal Metamorphosis in C20th Literature, and a background in both Ecocriticism and the representation of the body. She introduced and curated the Written Word day at the Soil Culture Forum in 2014. She has extensively researched soil and Literature, and has published articles on animal transformation and tree communication.
