Dear Friends, There is a connection between the soil microbiome and our microbiome. As we focus on health, we’ve come across these new findings. For organic farmers who use nature rather than pesticides and herbicides to grow plants, including organic hemp for CBD, we are heartened to see this research going mainstream. The human microbiome consists…
Dear Friends, At the fall equinox, farmers pause to reflect on the growing season, with harvest upon us. Here at Mt. Folly, I’m dispensing with happy talk. From Covid to climate, the year has been rough, so rough I’ve had to summon my inner mule. Here is the back story, some of which you may know:…
We need food and farming for people to survive. At the same time, more than half our soil’s carbon has been lost to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change and causing problems for all of nature, including humankind. We are learning how to fix that at Mt. Folly, working with The American Farmland Trust, The Savory…
February 2, 2021 I just wrote a letter for our Mercantile customers touching on the hours of Zoom farmer meetings I attended in January. Here is my main point: The main theme… was how to use biology to solve our environmental and health problems. From the gut microbiome to carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, this…