Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Thought this bit was worth special attention

"It's estimated that farming is involved in 20 percent to 25 percent of all
greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Large amounts of carbon dioxide are
released when farmers burn forests and grasslands in order to make way for
fields. Farmers also burn plenty of fossil fuels — to power their
tractors, harvesters and other equipment. In addition, when farmers plow
their fields, it introduces oxygen into the soil, causing microbes to
digest the organic carbon found in decomposed roots and leaves in the soil.
This also releases carbon dioxide."

I'm happy to know we're not into that vicious cycle ourselves, albeit small
scale to begin.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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