Mobs, mulch and microbes: the regenerative farming movement could change the way our food is produced for the better – but what’s it all about? Ashleigh Arnott investigates this hope for the future of food in the UK.
When it comes to food production, so the argument goes, sustainable just isn’t enough. Our current farming system has been run into the ground and it needs to be improved rather than maintained and sustained. From World War II onwards, farmers began to rely on heavy machinery and chemicals to increase their yields. It worked, of course, but the soil paid the price – its nutrients were depleted, its protective shrubs and trees were cleared, its friendly microbes, fungi and minibeasts moved out to escape the constant disruption. In the UK. the costs of topsoil erosion are thought to be £1.2 billion per year. Regenerative farming aims to rehabilitate and conserve the land used to grow food.
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