{"id":39679,"date":"2018-10-25T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39679"},"modified":"2018-10-25T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:25:01","slug":"dirt-to-soil-how-to-make-money-in-farming-and-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39679","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dirt to Soil\u2019 \u2013 How to make money in farming and save the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Dirt to Soil\u2019 \u2013 How to make money in farming and save the planet<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Gabe Brown, the author of Dirt to Soil<\/em>, farms near Bismarck in the US state of North Dakota, not far from the Canadian border. Unusual weather events often spell bad news for farmers, but anyone hit by hailstorms and a severe blizzard in four consecutive years might be excused for being done with farming, once and for all. Brown didn\u2019t give up, despite the \u201cdisaster years\u201d as he calls the period from 1995 to 1998. \u201cToday, I tell people that those four years of crop failure were hell to go through, but they turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to us, because they forced us to think outside the box, to not be afraid of failure and to work with nature instead of against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"There is little that Brown\u2019s Ranch<\/a> doesn\u2019t produce: grains, beef, pork, poultry, eggs, vegetables, fruit and nuts \u2013 and the list is not comprehensive. To Brown, it\u2019s not about increasing the yield, it is about maximising the profit per acre. One Family\u2019s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture<\/em>, is the subtitle to his book which summarises his insight that everything on the farm hinges on the health of its soils.<\/p>\n

His farming success has turned Gabe Brown into something of a celebrity in regenerative farming circles, and by now he spends several months a year, off the farm giving talks and running seminars and workshops. Dirt to Soil, <\/em>his first book, is in part a handbook that teaches farmers and gardeners how to heal the soil; but it also explains a lot of the soil science and explains why good soil is an integral part of a healthy ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Dirt to Soil\u2019 \u2013 How to make money in farming and save the planet Gabe Brown, the author of Dirt to Soil, farms near Bismarck in the US state of North Dakota, not far from the Canadian border. Unusual weather events often spell bad news for farmers, but anyone hit by hailstorms and a severe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[22574,4943,288,299,6512,22573,22572,1091,6867],"class_list":["post-39679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-crop-failure","tag-dirt","tag-extreme-weather","tag-farming","tag-food-movement","tag-gabe-brown","tag-marianne-landzettel","tag-soil","tag-sustainable-food-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39680,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39679\/revisions\/39680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}