Down to Earth: How Wilderness Soils Make Us Healthier

Why are rural people healthier than city folk? It turns out it’s the diversity of bacteria in the soil — and that those benefits can be brought to the city.

Wilderness soils are replete with biodiversity that can boost your microbiome (Randy Larcombe)

EVEN ON A BLUSTERY winter’s afternoon, Mount Lofty flaunts its splendour as a bushland oasis, one of the last…