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Regenerative Farming leads to the creation of a Soil Carbon Sponge.
As you see in the picture above, the Soil Carbon Sponge provides:
1. A place to store water
2. Root-ability - plant roots have easier access to previously unavailable nutrients because soil is not compacted
3. This aerobic atmosphere gives space for all sorts of beneficial microbial life and less of the more pathogenic, anaerobic microbes
4. Resilience: no matter what weather is thrown at a soil carbon sponge, it will survive.
The magic of the sponge gets going at around 3% carbon in the soil, it is scary to contemplate that most of our agricultural soils are hovering around the 1% to 1,5% mark. We have become so focused on getting carbon out of the atmosphere that we forget the function of that carbon. The carbon needs to be in the soil not just to get it out of the atmosphere but to build the sponge and enable the system that nature has given us to provide food and regulate the environment.
It is crucial that farmers reestablish the Soil Carbon Sponge in degraded soils in as many parts of the planet as they can.
What you can do, as a Host, is start a dialogue with your farmers to understand their individual situation a little better. Please share as much information as possible with Food Club Hub on each farmer you add through the section on Agricultural Practices. The aim for Food Club Hub is to link farmers to other farmers on the same path - and make this move towards a more regenerative food system easier for everyone involved!
Food Club by Food Club, we can change our food system together!
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hosts to thank you for the work you are doing in helping their local produce reach more members!
