We usually only hear of emission reductions as the way to address rebalancing our atmosphere…
However, even if we stop emitting carbon dioxide now, the earth’s temperature will still increase. Drawing down the atmosphere’s oversupply of carbon by regenerating our soils replenishes our carbon-poor soils.
Carbon is essential for life and productive soils requires carbon. Over the last century our farming practices have been reducing the carbon stored in our soil - degrading it. More and more farmers are giving regenerative farming a go.
4zzz's Eliot Rifkin chatted about regenerative farming with Tom Nicholas, an experienced regenerative farmer and the board chair of Healthy Soils Australia.
If you'd like to dig deeper into soil health... visit the Healthy Soils Australia website and follow them on Facebook or Twitter. And download Walter Hehne's pdf called "Regenerate Australia: The Concept" here.
And... if that's not enough, here's a whole mess of resources to become more informed:
Some short and clear videos on regenerative agriculture and soil carbon sequestration are provided here.
- What is Regenerative Agriculture? (4 min)
- The Regenerative Farmers – David Marsh (6 min)
- The Lazy Farmers from Narromine NSW – Bruce and Roz Maynard (8 min)
- Put carbon where it belongs- back in the soil (7 min)
- The Soil Story (4 min)
Books
- Call of the Reed Warbler by Charles Massy
- The Wooleen Way by David Pollock. -Easy to read account of regenerating pastoral lands in the Murchison area of WA
- The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
- Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickle.– links regenerative agriculture and health.
- Nutrition Rules by G. Sait
- Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown- easy to read story of a families’ transition to Regen Ag, based in U.S
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Facebook groups
Names to follow and Youtube
Christine Jones, Dr Elaine Ingham, Nicole Masters, Walter Jehne, Dr Rattan Lal, Charles Massey, Charlie Arnott, Col Seis
Websites