Organic farming

Music Now we are going to talk about organic farming and here we want to connect organic farming

which is growing health for the land, for the environment, for the world and for the people

people of course because we are part of this world although it seems sometimes that we don't know it

we want to carry it

But organic farming basically because it puts a lot of focus on everything we've been talking about

also of the soil, to treat the soil well, to treat the soil well because in the end the soil is the one that gives us the food, that makes our plants grow, of course that we also bring food from the seas and we have to take care of them too and from the oceans but now we are talking about the earth, a big part of our food comes from the earth so if the mother that feeds us is not well, then no one is going to be well and that's it

we're looking at it, so the focus of organic farming is very much on the soil, we are always looking to treat the soil well, to know how to know it and how to manage it so that we can enrich all of us, in organic farming, in regenerative agriculture we are not looking for only to have good healthy harvests, you are looking to do that but at the same time you are improving the land, first the ecosystem then the ecosystem and then everything as a consequence, so we want to put a lot of focus, in organic farming we put a lot of focus on the soil and on improving the soil, the ecosystem, the health of the people and the health of the planet of course, because the soil is so important, and also besides the fact that it's going to give us the food, at the level of already more macro it is known that the fertile soil is a CO2 bomb, when it is fertile when it is covered and when it is well treated, it is a pump that absorbs CO2 from the land, however a mistreated, uncovered, over-tilled, over-grazed, over-grazed land expels a lot of CO2 to the atmosphere, in fact there are already countries where they give money to the farmers

that can measure the amount of carbon that is trapped in the soil and the more carbon that is trapped in the soil they're able to capture, they give them money and then the other way around, if you in your operation you are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, then they make you pay money, which is something quite consistent for everybody and it's a huge amount of money that a fertile land can capture CO2, in fact there are scientists who say that if the agricultural lands of the world would raise a little bit their amount of humus, their amount of organic matter, this would capture so much CO2 that we would go back to pre-industrial revolution CO2 levels, these are hypotheses based on mathematical calculations but they are very interesting to take into account

So just to give us an idea, also a fertile land captures a lot of water

In these last few years and also seeing how the climate is, that every time the climate is going more extreme, it's going to events, for example the rain, the rain is raining less and less in general but also those rain events are more localized sometimes in heavy events of a lot of rain and then long dry spells, no rain at all, then another reason still above all else to make our land able to infiltrate water and to store it down, to refill the aquifers, to close the water cycle, that when the land is poorly managed, because that land doesn't absorb water, so if we a very heavy rain comes, because the soil absorbs what it can and the rest will go to the from below, that generates a lot of problems, a lot of floods, so a lot of the floods, a lot of the floods are not so much because of the amount of rain that falls, because before it also rained a lot but because of the bad management of agricultural lands and also because of deforestation of course, if in a forest it absorbs a lot of rainwater and manages and carries it to the aquifers and a fertile agricultural land then it does the same thing, it closes that water cycle, it absorbs a lot of water, it sends to the aquifers, our springs, our rivers are going to last a long time longer, this is already being seen in a 100 hectare farm that is well managed, all the surrounding aquifers you can see the change in one year, in two, that there is much more water that the water courses last longer, if there is a source it also lasts longer, anyway, so that we can see the implication of growing organic crops and cultivate well

Another one of the implications also that influences all of us, managing organic waste, so to speak, which in one of the techniques that we have mentioned of regenerative agriculture talked about biofertilizers, biofertilizers

or organic fertilizers of many types are always made using the resources that we have

around us, for example, of course the animal manures, that has been used all our lives, but then there's a lot of things and there's a lot of by-products of the industry

food that they don't know very well what to do with them and they generate environmental problems

that if we are able to compost them and turn them into food for the soil and the environment food for the plants, then we are killing two birds with one stone

I put the example that we are quite close in the area where we are in the buttermilk area, the whey which is a by-product of making the cheeses, it's not really known what to do with it, now they're reusing it for the food industry, but until recently they were very recently it was thrown away and generated a lot of problems, but there are ways of managing that buttermilk so that the soil can assimilate it, it's almost always fermentations

that make that immense amount of minerals that the whey has, because the whey whey has a lot of minerals, we can convert them into food for our vegetable garden, so organic farming is much more than just having our fruits and vegetables here

healthy, which of course is already a compelling reason, but we want you to understand as well that this has a lot of implications at a more macro level

With respect to what we've talked about water, how water works in fertile soil, just to give you an idea, the fertility of the soil is measured scientifically by the amount of humus that's in the soil, that can be measured, it goes by so many percentages, if we increase by 1% the amount of humus in the soil, that soil is going to be able to store 140 thousand more liters of water per year per hectare, so you start to do the math on the implication

that this has at a major level