{"id":6998,"date":"2019-09-18T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growheregbg.wpengine.com\/framtidens-jordbruk-del1\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T18:38:45","slug":"futurefarming1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow-here.com\/en\/futurefarming1\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of farming #1 – Build topsoil with Carbon farming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can a farm with cows, chickens and vegetable production create a positive footprint on climate and ecosystems? Yes … This is part 1 of a series on agriculture of the future, we visit some of the Nordic countries’ most innovative innovative agriculture.<\/em><\/p>\n

We regularly share farm inspiration and have written about everything from greenhouse farming above the Arctics<\/a> to social farming projects in refugee camps in Hamburg<\/a>. But we feel it is now time to give an overview of the future of agriculture and what needs to be done to tackle our climate challenges and other fate issues. So lets get started! First of all, we thought of raising an example of regenerative agriculture – also known as carbon farming.<\/strong> Last Sunday we visited two regenerative farms with the ambition to net-store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and build up our food soils and in this blog you will learn about the meaning of regenerative agriculture based on their business. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

Building topsoil is the most important issue of our time!<\/h3>\n

One of our major challenges in the conventional way we produce food is that it depletes our food soils.<\/p>\n

Over the past 40 years, development has gone so far that we have now lost 2\/3 of all food land and every year we are losing agricultural land corresponding to one area in the whole of Great Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The food soil contains mud or so-called organic matter (OM) which consist of 50% carbon. Sure, but how is that soil organic matter created? Well, the process that nature builds this is through the roots of plants and by growing and keeping grazing animals properly, one can thus create a net storage of carbon dioxide while creating muddy soil that holds both more water and nutrients.<\/p>\n

Did you know that there is more carbon dioxide stored in our soils than in both the atmosphere and the biosphere? In fact, we can absorb enough of the air’s CO2 in our soils to prevent climate change!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the following video you will get an overview of how the earth and climate issue are related and what we must do to seriously prevent global warming.<\/p>\n