b'proxy for soil health and soilThats our duty, thats ournow 12%, which are precolonialLEFTbiodiversity. And of course,legacy. And so we do that atlevels of organic matter.A view from Soul Fire Farm.when you release carbon fromSoul Fire. We farm [using] Afro- Here, you put your hand the soil, you put it up into theIndigenous ancestral practicesinto the soil, and you pull upRIGHTatmosphere. So you see theThese are the practices ofa fistful of earthworms andProduce from this harvest at first blips in the anthropogenicthe Ovambo people, in termsnematodes and countlessSoul Fire Farm atmospheric CO2 in the 1800sof raised beds, the practicesbacteria and fungal mycelium,was distributed at no cost to with the tilling of the Greatof Dr. George Washingtonand the hawk flies over, andthe doorsteps Plains. And my wonderfulCarver with cover crops andthe sparrow is nesting, andof local families coworker Larissa JacobsonCleopatras vermicomposting.the monarch butterflies areliving under what Penniman talks about how the work ofSo were taking our ancestrallanding. Theres this wholerefers to as food regenerative farmers is actuallypractices and watching thatwonderful biodiversity thatapartheid.to call that carbon and callorganic matter level, when weis actually part of what were that life back into the soil. first [got] here, at 4%, go to 5, 6, 7,doing here on the farm.nHEIFER.ORG |15'