DIRT TO SOIL

Dirt to Soil is the regenerative farming movements s holy text The Observer Author and farmer Gabe Brown featured in the Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground A regenerative no till pioneer NBC News Dirt to Soil confirms my belief that animals are part of the natural land We need to reintegrate livestock and crops on our farms and ranches and Gabe Brown shows us how to do it well Temple Grandin author of Animals in Translation Soil health pioneer Gabe Brown did not set out to write a book on no till regenerative agriculture but that was the end product of his research into a new method of farming that would bring back life to his farm rather than taking away from it As a series of weather related crop disasters put the Brown family farm on the brink of financial ruin Brown took the bold decision to cut costs by omitting the use of most pesticides insecticides and synthetic fertilizers This was the catalyst that led to Brown experimenting with regenerative agriculture a method of farming that undid the damage of conventional agricultural practices He switched to no till planting started planting diverse cover crops mixes and changed his grazing practices In doing so Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life starting with the