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“A N AT I O N T H AT D E S T R O Y S I T S S O I L D E S T R O Y S I T S E L F ” - F D R ( F R A N K L I N D E L A N O R O O S E V E LT )
This means that real action must be taken to improve and revive the remaining top soil on earth.
6. A bigger carbon pool than the atmosphere and biosphere combined (even though our farmed soils have lost 50-70% of their carbon stock)
7. Most scalable solution and best carbon sink (low tech, low cost) with many additional benefits
2. Reduce wildfires
3. Improve drought resilience and increase soil moisture (“green water” supplies)
5. Provide human and natural communities with abundant clean water and reduce the need for irrigation, water treatment plants, bottled water, and
desalination plants
9. Dramatically improve air quality and reduce the incidence of asthma, COPD, and other respiratory illnesses
10. Increase soil fertility and the nutrient density of local foods
11. Improve the health and resilience of crops, animals, and humans
1% increase of soil organic matter means the soil can hold 25 thousand gallons more water per acre, per year - NRCS
“Farmers who have increased their soil organic matter from 1% to 5% can hold 100,000 gallons more of water PER ACRE.” - Finian Makepeace, Co-
Founder Kiss the Ground
Regenerative farmers can quickly get to zero runoff. ZERO runoff means your land absorbs 27,000 gallons of water per acre during a 1-inch rain event.
Soil organic matter holds 20x its weight in water.
Many small water cycles are broken. Building back healthy soil and keeping the ground covered with diversity of plants restores the small water cycles
and helps rehydrate our land.
Increased infiltration and water holding capacity means more water is returning to create clean fresh water sources like springs and aquifers
HUMAN HEALTH IS IMPACTED BY THE HEALTH OF OUR SOIL.
Without the biology in the soil, plants (and the food they create), can’t access vital minerals and nutrients.
“Plants don’t digest the soil, microbes do” - Dan Kittredge, Bionutrient Food Association
“One carrot grown in healthy soil can have as many polyphenols (micronutrients high in antioxidants) as 200 conventional carrots” - Dan Kittredge,
Bionutrient Food Association.
Restoring soil biology means plants are able to access minerals and nutrients that keep them healthy and strong so they can protect themselves from
attacks of pests. This also means the food has more minerals and nutrients for us.
“Our food is a shadow of what it once was” - Graeme Sait, Soil Expert, New Zealand
Healthy living soil means less harmful chemicals are needed to fight pests which means fewer pesticide residues on our food.
Chemical industrial agriculture has a huge impact on the health of our air and water. The San Joaquin Valley, one of the most agriculture centered areas
of CA, has the worst air quality of the U.S.
Counties in the San Joaquin Valley have thehighest asthma rate for children in the nation. Over 550,000 Valley residents have asthma, and of those
105,000 are children.
“Food is the nexus of most of our world’s health, economic, environmental, climate, social and even political crises”
The heat island effect is the elevated temperature in urban areas as compared to rural, less developed areas. As cities expand, urban development and
impermeable surfaces that destroy the soil, lead to this phenomenon.
When soil is 70 degrees, all moisture is used for plant growth. When soil temperature climbs to 100 degrees, only 15% is available for plant growth. At 130
degrees all moisture is lost. When soil surface reaches 140 degrees the microorganisms die out.
DEGENERATIVE SOIL:
1. More Radiant Heat because there is less plant cover absorbing and using that heat energy.
2. More runoff and evaporation - means less water in the soil and less water supplying springs and streams year round
3. More evaporation of soil moisture so less moisture in the soil able to feed plants so they photosynthesize longer.
Sustainable models only work when you begin in a regenerative state, otherwise you are sustaining on a low functioning model without improving or degrading.
REGENERATIVE SOIL:
Definition: Renewal or restoration of a body, bodily part, or biological system (as a forest) after injury or as a normal process. Bringing into renewed existence;
generating again.
"Regenerative implies more than just sustaining something but rather an active rebuilding or regeneration of existing systems towards full health. It
also implies an open-ended process of ongoing improvement and positive transformation." - Charles Massy
Any time a raindrop meets the earth, one of four things can happen. That droplet of water can:
1. Go up, as evaporation (or transpiration through plants)
2. Go sideways, as surface runoff
3. Go down, as deep drainage to be stored in aquifers or become a spring
4. Be held in the soil before moving in one of the other three directions.
An article on the USDA-NRCS website estimates that the total annual cost of erosion from agriculture in the United States is about $44 billion per year.
Richard Cruse, Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State and Director of the Iowa Water Center, has calculated that for every pound of conventional corn that is
harvested in Iowa, we lose more than a pound of topsoil. For every pound of conventional soy that is harvested, we lose more than 2 pounds of topsoil
Eroded soil ends up in rivers and oceans, clogging up dams and public waterworks and endangering nuclear power plant facilities. The dredging of silt can
cost tens of millions of dollars for a single reservoir. It also ends up in the air — a major cause of our rapidly increasing incidence of respiratory illnesses.
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