Carbon sequestration in soil: The potential underfoot

[appal_jack]

1. Yes!

Cover crops, composting, organic management, managed intensive grazing, perennial polycultures, food forests, etc.

Nurture earthworms, dung beetles, and micro-arthropods, and they will go to work turning volatile, global-warming carbon into fixed and stable humic compounds in due time. They get the food and habitat they need, we get deep, dark, rich soils, and the planet's excess carbon goes somewhere useful: win-win-win!

Avoid poisons as much as possible: is that herbicide, insecticide, or fungicide really necessary, or might there be a cultural or physical practice that can take its place?

Nice to see this discussed here. One of the most pressing issues and important opportunities of our time. K&R,

-app