Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 09/28/2013 10:52 PM, tradingpost wrote:

524795E7.2010406@lobo.net" type="cite">As I understand it, living forests sequester more CO2 while producing O2 than burning them down to make biochar.

 
Let's not forget the enormous potential for sequestering carbon in soil with big changes in the way we do agriculture. I highly recommend COWS SAVE THE PLANET by Judith Schwartz (Chelsea Green 2013). She reports the work of a number of researchers who believe that we could change the CO2/climate equations much faster than most of us imagine by switching to agricultural practices that sequester soil carbon--grasslands plus grazing livestock and the like. Check it out.

~Harvey

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