I will delve into the first of many and wonderful sustainable farming practices in the next few weeks, but first I want to shout out to everyone why Regenerative Agriculture is so important.
We must REBUILD, not just sustain
The human induced degradation of soils worldwide has been significant. In Australia this has predominantly been since European settlement and its associated impacts of grazing and farming the land. To purely ‘sustain’ our soils, river systems and environment at the current state is simply not enough. We need to regenerate and build our soils to a state better than where they currently are. We have encroaching desertification, loss of soil carbon, loss of soil life, acid soils, dryland salinity, lowered nutrient contents of the foods produced from these soils and massive increases in chronic human disease in developed countries in the last 50 years, which many attribute to increased pesticide use and lower nutrient contents of food. We have the opportunity to turn this around!
