Regeneration - An Earth Saving Evolution
19‐11‐10 - There are many more millions of living organisms below the soil than above it and only now are we beginning to understand how intensive agriculture and the widespread use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has killed many of these vital soil organisms.
By releasing the soils nutrient pools, these practices have resulted in
higher short-term yields. In the long term they have seriously depleted
our most important base resource the soil. This extractive nutrient
harvesting is not sustainable and history shows us how civilization
after civilization has collapsed when they have completed exploited and
exhausted their soils.
As food security becomes a looming global issue,
nutritious food grown in ways that build and maintain healthy,
mineral-rich soils is a pressing imperative for the future wellbeing of
our population. Biological farming promises an economically and
environmentally viable alternative. By remineralising and balancing the
microbes in the soil, the microbes are able to build soil health and
deliver nutrients effectively to the plant.
The microbes in biological
fertilisers work symbiotically in collaborative populations, feeding off
each other in dynamic, self-perpetuating cycles that work to fix
particular problems with the soil or plant. There are specific microbes
which capture energy, carbon, phosphorous or other essential elements
that make an immediate and cumulative difference to plant and soil
health.
Added to the soil biological fertilizers go on working in
creative living systems that can dramatically reduce chemical inputs,
increase carbon and moisture levels in the soil and build soils that are
healthier, wealthier and more sustainably productive.
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