Ethical Farming Regenerates Diverse Communities Farming is hard work. But some things make it a lot harder. One difficult challenge is food sovereignty. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. What […]
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Feeding soil sustainably from micro to macro Over 100 years ago, Albert Howard stumbled upon three fascinating insights while working as a botanist in India. First, Howard observed that the health of a village’s people, animals and livestock were directly correlated to the health of the village’s soil. Second, he noted that no matter how
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Ways to foster a rich living community in the ground we farm on It’s true: one teaspoon of healthy soil contains more creatures than there are people on the whole earth (source: soils.org.uk). And it turns out that all those microorganisms are vital for life – the life of the soil, the food it produces,
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Increasing nutrient density in food starts from the ground up Jim Richards, CEO of Milkadamia, puts the treatment of soils in two opposite corners. With regenerative farming, soils are regarded as vibrant, self-regenerating entities. In the other corner, industrialized farming views soil as a dead medium solely supporting monoculture crops sustained by synthetic fertilizers, herbicides,
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