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Day 6 - Healthy Soil
Day 6 of 6
Key Points From Today
- It is all the very same soil - The road out front splits three farms that fifty years ago were one continuous field. Same soil type across all of them. The only thing that is different is how each one is cared for, and the moment you put a shovel in the ground that difference is tremendous.
- Our roots run deeper than my shovel - Your roots are only ever as deep as your plants are tall. On our regenerative pasture the roots go down further than I can dig, and they are covered in mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria. Our plants feed those tiny communities carbon and sugar from the sun, and in return they hand the plants water and minerals that were locked away in the soil. That partnership is where nutrient rich food begins.
- The other two fields tell the story - Right across the road, conventional grazing with no rotation leaves roots only about three inches deep, anemic plants, and a thin topsoil that erodes away. Further down, the GMO soybean field is bare, compacted ground that smells of chemicals with barely a single root to hold it together. Same dirt we started with, just cared for a different way.
- Healthy ground drinks in every rain - Our pasture stays completely covered with a mulch layer between the plants. When a raindrop falls it hits that mulch, stops, and soaks slowly into the ground, so we hold on to all of our rain. On bare or compacted soil the rain hits like concrete, runs off, and carries the water and soil away with it.
- And we are still only getting started - This is honestly one of our weakest fields, and it is already teeming with life. With regenerative grazing we capture every drop and slowly build even more soil, the foundation that every plant, animal, and family we feed grows from.
Healthy soil leads to healthy plants, healthy plants lead to healthy animals, and healthy animals lead to healthy families.
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