This article – ‘Grow Roots to put Soil Microbes to Work’ – from the Rodale Institute with Soil Ecologist Francesca Cotrufo (Ph.D) provides a great explanation of the role of microbes and roots in the sequestration of carbon in soil. Continue reading Microbes and the Soil Carbon Cycle
In this presentation from the ODPG Conference, Walter Jehne looks at how Organic and Regenerative principles restore soil function, restore the filtering of nutrients, restore soil carbon and restore water storage; all of which mitigate and reverse Climate Change. Continue reading Walter Jehne: ODPG Conference Presentation
Join us on an Ian Mitchell Innes workshop in December. Renowned educator in Holistic Management, Mitchell-Innes is a man who learnt from his own costly mistakes and now travels the world teaching pastoral farmers how to use nature to make their farm more profitable, no matter what their environment. Continue reading Be More Profitable by Learning from the Best
A former agriculture journalist asks, instead of concentrating on the negatives of the hard task ahead, why aren’t we looking at the farmers who are busy making successful environmentally-friendly changes to see what can and is being done? Continue reading What Can and Can’t Be Done
Meet Nick and Jo Collins as they discuss what conventional farmers can do to meet environmental regulations; things that they have learnt over their 15 years of organic farming. Continue reading Environmental Tips for Conventional Farmers
“I would like to know to what extent regenerative agriculture practices could play a role in reducing carbon emissions and producing food, including meat, in the future.” Continue reading Regenerative Farming and the Climate Question
Dr Selva Selvarajah, writing for the Otago Daily Times is a consumer with no attachment to organic farming, but who has been watching the industry with interest… Continue reading A Consumer asks : Can Organic Farming Deliver for New Zealand?
Out last week from the World Economic Forum, a 5-minute film featuring Gabe Brown on Regenerative Farming. The world is losing 24 billion tons of fertile soil each year. But one farmer has worked out how to restore the health … Continue reading Five Ways to Save Our Soil
Philippa Jamieson discusses why we just don’t need GE in New Zealand following the recent report by the Royal Society Te Aparangi calling for ”an overhaul of gene-technology regulations and wide public discussion”. Continue reading No GE is Needed: Article by Philippa Jamieson
With the whole world currently coming to terms with the vast problem of climate change, farmers are under tremendous pressure to reduce their environmental footprint. But organic farmers have already done much of the hard graft… Stuart Luxton, Fonterra’s Organic … Continue reading Organics : Ahead of the Curve