The best part? #RegenerativeAgriculture as a #ClimateSolution doesn't require any resources aside from education. It actually reduces the labor, fossil fuels required to plow, fertilizer needs, herbicide and pesticide use, etc.

Once farmers adopt #NoTill and see the benefits, they usually go on to more and more #Permaculture solutions. Eventually adding animals like poultry and sheep that weed and fertilize for them while adding additional revenue streams for #resiliency to markets.

A fantastic resource for #organic #notill small grains! Hopefully, Agriculture Canada releases it with an #OpenSourceSeed pledge in stead of a so-called #PlantBreedersRights claim that allows them to claim genetic resources as their own intellectual property. #CDNag #cdnpoli #agroecology #seed
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-kernza-perennnial-wheat-climate-change-1.6917114

@ai6yr there goes a whole bunch of topsoil. #notill

Topsoil loss is a major threat to food security and the environment in the Midwest, where conventional farming practices erode the fertile layer of soil. A new study shows that adopting no-till farming, which avoids ploughing and disturbing the soil, could stop topsoil loss and even restore it over time. The study estimates that no-till farming could save up to 3.5 billion tons of topsoil per year in the region.

#Topsoil #NoTill #Farming https://www.eurasiareview.com/31052023-no-till-revolution-could-stop-midwest-topsoil-loss-in-its-tracks/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

"“You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother’s bosom? Then when I die, she will not take me to her bosom to rest” (Wilkinson, Blood Struggle, 49). It isn’t the first time that I read or hear about the practice of tilling as something so incredibly destructive. There is so much to tease out there, but just a few thoughts put very briefly that I will ask you to pull apart as reflections…

"The act tilling:

- removes histories from the land
- The layers of strata that hold pottery, bones, the ancestral parts of us are destroyed
- the landforms that were created to honour the spirits of lands are plowed flat
- the very history of the land is disrupted and destroyed
- removes and displaces indigenous seeds and plants, and leaves the land broken and open for invasive plants – destroys potential for trees and regeneration as well as any natural protection provided by the plants that existed there
- exposes the soil to intense solar radiation, baking it, drying it
- increases erosion significantly
- destroys mycorrhizal networks – and on this I will expand.

"I have often though about how violent the process of tilling is. Traditional agriculture, vs that which was brought here by Europeans. .... I have also been told about ceremony that determines which trees to harvest, which to leave to grow. These things we learn over time, over connection. It is generations of knowing to know a single tree, never mind a grove of living, thinking, feeling beings. The result was more of a curatorial relationship of relationality between that which grew on its own and that which we either planted or fostered. The result was a bountiful land that provided everything needed within short, short distances and surprisingly minimal amounts of labour."

portage – "the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water." (https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Portage)

"Soil is not a “dead” or neutral thing. It is teeming with life. From insects and crawlers, to bacteria and fungal networks… and then the roots and life systems of trees and plants, this is a place of high activity and a total life system. we are intimately connected to these places through all our being."

from https://giiwedinanaang.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/ancient-memories-through-our-very-own-skin/ – recommended if you have time and energy
#noTill #naturalFarming #soil #fungi #IndigenousKnowledge

Forgotten contributor to #sustainable #agriculture
https://modernfarmer.com/2023/03/louis-bromfield/
#NoTill

The Soil Story https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=npu6GBbB-Oc #climateChange #globalWarming #industrialAgriculture #fossilFuels #soil #carbon #regenerativeAgriculture #noTill #coverCrops
narrator's org: https://www.detroitdirt.org/
produced by https://kisstheground.com/the-soil-story

@Bearhouse I understand the importance of no till #agriculture especially for #erosion. I don’t understand #NoTill #horticulture? I need to do some #reading.

@thegardendude
RT @8bitpal
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Here comes the regular reminder that we're running an #instance here at https://regenerate.social for practicioners and active researchers of #Regenerative methods like #NoTill, #NoDig, #HolisticGrazing, #RotationalGrazing, #Permaculture, #CulturalBurning, #CarbonFarming, #SustainableForestry, and more!

If that's you, we'd love to have you!
If it's something that might be interesting for your community, please boost :)

I'm pretty pro-#notill but I'm actually really stoked to get my new rototiller for the tractor next week. I am planning the primary use for mixing #compost to help speed up decomposition.