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Where are we going regarding healthy food?
Industrial Farming* is facing diminishing returns (CSIRO)
Soil and produce quality is diminishing, farming input costs are going up as well as our Nations' health costs.
Increasing fertilizers only exacerbates the problem - extracting more and more nutrients from depleted soils.
* large scale, mechanised.
Where are we going regarding healthy food?
Industrial Farming* is facing diminishing returns (CSIRO)
Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity,[1] improving the water cycle,[2] enhancing ecosystem services, supporting biosequestration,[3] increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil. (Wiki).
The 3 main factors influencing high NDI are:
- good quality soil. apropraite to the plant
- picking at the right time of it's ripeness curve, and
- eaten fresh!
