Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Well, you need dirt to grow plants. A farmer I admire once wrote that 90% of his job was dirt management. Manage the dirt well and the plants grow themselves.

the do-nothing farmer needed to be more attentive and sensitive to the land and seasons than a regular farmer. After all, Fukuoka’s ingenious method was hard-won after decades of his own close observations of weather patterns, insects, birds, trees, soil, and the interrelationships among all of these.

In his book, Quand les plantes n’en font qu’à leur tête (literally, When plants do as they please ), anthropologist Dusan Kasic explains that the term production “places humans ‘above ground’, on a pedestal and ‘outside of the world’, which has the consequence [...] of reinforcing human exceptionalism.” The notion of production, he argues, “disenga... See more