Regenerative agriculture may not be on your radar, but it should be — it affects more than you know. Let’s take a look. What would you guess the following have in common?
- Climate change
- Reduced nutritional quality of our food
- Toxic chemical exposure
- Water pollution
- Increase in chronic diseases
- Loss of biodiversity
- The fall of the Roman Empire
The answer is simple but probably surprising: dirt. And to get more specific, the soil our food is grown in. It turns out that modern farming and ranching technologies introduced over the past 70 years have diminished the quality of our precious topsoil, and this affects all of the above.
Read on to learn how depleted soil means less nutrients in your food and an out-of-balance microbiome.
The Green Revolution and Soil Exhaustion
Read the full article originally published at www.organicauthority.com.