Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

I know Paul but being really organic is a war in the EU. Have been breaking 
regulations for a long time and we have severely suffered for it. We get 
fined (almost $ 10 T last year alone) for having trees and shrubs on the 
land as just one example out of hundreds. Most neighbours rectified that by 
setting fire to all their shrubs and trees and they don't get fined. Doing 
what is right makes it very difficult to survive financially.
Imo we (all of us) are in an ever faster race to the bottom and I have not 
been able to do much to stop that. I am absolutely certain that I have 
sequestered thousands of tons of carbon (while breaking lots of regulations) 
in my soil over the years but all around me I have seen millions of tons go 
up in smoke and more millions of tons being washed away by rain water.
John


Looking at the actual press release
http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/

Forget regulations; the govt program is DOA far as I'm concerned. The
actual organic practices are the key. Organic properly understood is the
right way and economically necessary and doable in and of itself. I do
it because it works, and go beyond it with intensive methods based on
agroecology. The methods are what sequesters carbon - not phony baloney
regulations.

paul

On 5/29/2014 3:26 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> True Paul but as an organic farmer I saw first hand all the regulations 
> that make this impossible in practice.
> John
>
>
> this is big.
>
> Organic Farming ‘Could Sequester All Carbon Emissions’
> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/05/27/organic-farming-could-sequester-all-carbon-emissions/
>
> Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change
> http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/

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