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@benedikt_haug @plant_holobiont

Hey, that is amazing!

The use of woodchips from pruning residues to enhance #SoilOrganicMatter, #SoilMicrobiology and thus #SoilFertility is a very good example of #RegenerativeAgriculture (but without the bloat).

I also recommend the videos by Olivier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOcvR46yDD4

These people know that there is no one-size-fits-all in agriculture, but that this system has great potential to improve #SoilHealth. Currently it's more about intensive* systems like horticulture or viticulture (for arable fields there just isn't enough wood available).
And we need to be be aware about possible emissions of CO2 (the soil microbes "consume" the wood chips over time, although a share gets converted into relatively stable soil organic matter while the plants get nurtured) and what happens with the N cycle. Here, the team of the URBAG project, headed by Gara Villalba at UAB-ICTA did recently some interesting life cycle assessments and gas measurements and the Carboniato system seems to have a tight microbial nutrient cycling in the high C soil which decreases losses while allowing the plants to access nutrients.

So, carboniato is an impressive system, and I am very glad that you take it tho the netherlands!

There is still a lot of research to do, but here you can use your skills and academic structures for the #AgroecologicalTransformation . Congrats.
Followed :ecoanarchism_heart:

@uab

* intensive as in: a lot of work and input goes in to produce high-value crops. No judgement here(!)

#agroecology #ConservationAgriculture #RegAg #FoodSovereignity #ClimateSmartFarming

Happy World Soil Day 2023! :ecoanarchism_heart:

This year's title is "Soil and Water". The one doesn't do well without the other. And humans need definitely both.

Be kind to your soil.

Learn about your soil.

See your soil, feel your soil.

Eat your soil (seriously, if your soil isn't polluted, there are tons of micronutrients and millions of microbes that your gut microbiome will welcome).

Gardening, especially in community, is great: you learn, you chill, you produce fresh, healthy and cheap veggies.

Let us protect the soils. I know, right now there is so much stuff we are treating badly, but the soils have really an astonishing small lobby.

We nee to change the way we produce foods. An #AgroecologicalTransformation will help to mitigate #ClimateChange, improve #Biodiversity, repair the WaterCycle and will make the lives of the ones that come after us much, much easier.

#ProtectOurSoils
#SoilOrganicMatter
#WorldSoilDay #Soil #Ecosystems #Agriculture #RegenerativeAgricutlure #OrganicAgriculture #Permaculture

First toot - Hi Mastodon, here comes a #SoilScientist who will mainly post about #Science and #SoilCarbon in particular. ...and, you´ll see I always try to illustrate the work of our research group with some photos ;) #Rhizosphere #ClimateChange #Rewilding #MAOM #POM #SoilOrganicMatter #Mycorrhiza