Top tips for feeding your soil, while helping you and the planet

From the demonised beetle to crop rotation, Fiann Ó Nualláin spells out what’s necessary to ensure good soil health and help the environment.

The ancient Egyptians are accredited with quite a lot — so much that it would seem that they were the originators of civilization.

They invented architecture and sacred geometry — but Newgrange (Brú na Bóinne) is older than the pyramids. They invented a symbolic language but our own Ogham is symbolic of trees. They had a sun god — we had the Dagda. They invented medicine but Dian Cect had a herb for everyday of the week and every illness — he even possibly invented the first prosthetics if not an actual bionic arm.