pickThis was an interesting look into what our food system is and what it could be. Real world facts based on personal experience of a farmer and his family producing food using a design science to maximize sustainably and heal the land they have while making a profit.
This book left me feeling inspired to plant way more food than I normally do and expand my shopping to more local farms than just the veggie ones I normally frequent.
A properly designed key line swale and pocket pond system should be designed to capture and hold a region‘s maximum rainfall event. It is entirely possible by design, to prevent all surface runoff from agricultural lands. Think of the implications of this. If every farm properly captured and held ALL of its surface water, there would be no flash floods.
I honestly can‘t think of a better way to spend an evening than reading by the campfire my kids started while my wife grills burgers for dinner.
Not only is annual agriculture not feeding the rapidly increasing population, it is destroying ecosystems world while doing so. The current agricultural system is dependent on extra ordinary labor or cheap fossil fuel‘s we‘re increasingly scares mind inputs in order to not feed the world. It contributes to the greenhouse effect and the in equitable distribution of wealth worldwide while still not beating the world.
Restoration agriculture is farming in nature‘s image to produce the food, fuels and fibers that feed the world.
-Mark Shepard
“What you eat and how that food is grown is responsible for nearly every single crisis that humanity faces today.”
-Mark shepherd.
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