Written by Tom Allen-Stevens from CPM Magazine
Download PDF Guy and Claire Eckley have won awards for their climate-positive nutrient-dense Pure Kent produce. CPM visits to discover how food produced from regenerative agriculture can provide the route to net zero. Producing quality food through regenerative agriculture is a far more sensible route than growing trees. By Tom Allen-Stevens “This is our cultivations team,” says Guy Eckley as he sifts through the worms that fall away from the heavy clay soil he’s just dug up. The field of volunteer oats has recently had its green cover rolled in the frost ready for spring cropping. “These guys won’t burn a lot of diesel and they’re already at work in January, way before we’d be able to get anything other than a set of rolls on this land.” It was the need to stretch labour and machinery over a greater cropped area that prompted Guy and Claire Eckley down the regenerative agriculture route 11 years ago. But these days it’s more about getting the biology to do the work, Guy explains. “If you have a healthy soil, you have a healthy plant that looks after itself. The soil biology cycles the nutrients the plant needs, so you apply fewer inputs…
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Download PDF Guy and Claire Eckley have won awards for their climate-positive nutrient-dense Pure Kent produce. CPM visits to discover how food produced from regenerative agriculture can provide the route to net zero. Producing quality food through regenerative agriculture is a far more sensible route than growing trees. By Tom Allen-Stevens “This is our cultivations team,” says Guy Eckley as he sifts through the worms that fall away from the heavy clay soil he’s just dug up. The field of volunteer oats has recently had its green cover rolled in the frost ready for spring cropping. “These guys won’t burn a lot of diesel and they’re already at work in January, way before we’d be able to get anything other than a set of rolls on this land.” It was the need to stretch labour and machinery over a greater cropped area that prompted Guy and Claire Eckley down the regenerative agriculture route 11 years ago. But these days it’s more about getting the biology to do the work, Guy explains. “If you have a healthy soil, you have a healthy plant that looks after itself. The soil biology cycles the nutrients the plant needs, so you apply fewer inputs…
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