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> This not only sequesters the carbon but improves the soil’s fertility, boosting plant growth and capturing more carbon while also improving the soil’s ability
by legulere 12y ago
> This not only sequesters the carbon but improves the soil’s fertility, boosting plant growth and capturing more carbon while also improving the soil’s ability to absorb and retain water.
So this only relies on nothing else than fertilizing?
- Jedd 12y agoFertilising is often a misleading term, as people assume nitrogen-based (inorganic) fertilisers, which tend to be one-shot wonders, and not terribly helpful at improving soil quality or ability to lock up carbon. This story is hardly new, though, and there's an abundance of research that's already been done on simple, inexpensive, long-term, highly scalable ways of increasing carbon-carrying capacity of soils. Increasing organic matter is the obvious play, and you can do that by sensible stock management, sensible plant selection, application of compost (in this case as a kind of starter), and for some spectacular results application of biochar.