Book Review: “The Carbon Farming Solution”
The definitive text on regenerative agriculture, by Eric Toensmeier.
Did you know that fully half of global warming emissions come from our food system?
Or that only 1.5% of carbon is held within our atmosphere, when soils hold 5% and could hold much more?
How do we adapt our agricultural methods so that they will have a future in an era of severe weather volatility, rising sea-levels, and sky-rocketing atmospheric CO2 levels?
In his book, The Carbon Farming Solution, (Chelsea Green, 2016) internationally-renown permaculture scholar Eric Toensmeier presents a deeply stirring and exhaustively researched proposal:
To shift global production of staple crops over to regeneratively-managed perennials.
This elegant solutions solves the two-fold bind we’re in; carbon farming simultaneously is our most promising avenue to sequester carbon where it belongs — in the soil — while moving to an agricultural model that better withstands the hazards of wild swings in temperature and…
