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Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)

New Books in Environmental Studies

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Soil Regeneration

I was wondering if you could tell us maybe a particular example or more about soil regeneration. What happens is that by having animals moving in rotation, and what they're doing is they're living naturally. Their droppings are restoring fertility to the soil,. It helps to take carbon out of the atmosphere and to store it in the soil. Soil holds water against gravity to nurture thirsty plants, including our crops. By keeping animals in this rotation, be it on a permanent pasture like Will Harris is in Georgia. Or by mixed rotation, as I've seen near Basingstoke, Tim May has got a big farm. He's 10 times bigger than the average UK farm. His animals are

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