“Getting healthy” is often near the top of the list of New Year’s Resolutions. There is an equal need for soil to be healthy. The new year is a great opportunity to set goals for getting your soil healthy, which can help with managing extreme weather, it can increase profitability and it can sequester carbon.

Elyssa McFarland, the development director for the Soil Health Partnership, talks about how soil can benefit from following through on resolutions that result in healthy soil.