| Food production and distribution is a major | | | | are making an eatable carbon sink in your own |
| contributor to global warming. Worldwide , 14% of | | | | yard. This carbon sink will take dangerous |
| all greenhouse gas emissions are accredited to the | | | | greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere and put |
| way that we grow, process, distribute and | | | | them in the soil and plants.actually its the basic |
| consume food. | | | | building block of life. Its ironic that the same stuff |
| An further 18% of worldwide greenhouse gas | | | | that's so dangerous when in elevated levels in the |
| emissions are due to deforestation mostly driven | | | | atmosphere, is so imperative for basic survival. |
| by the clearing of forests for agricultural land. And | | | | The carbon, now in a safe form, will be passed |
| with a growing world population to feed, it is likely | | | | from our home-grown plants and into our bodies |
| that these emission levels will increase further. In | | | | as fresh, healthy, organic food. Ways to Create |
| fact, we must grow food to survive. | | | | an Eatable Carbon Sink in your Yard . There are 2 |
| But if the act of growing food is injuring us, then | | | | essential ingredients in making a good carbon sink. |
| what else are we able to do? In normal farming | | | | First off there should be a reasonably dense |
| and gardening, soil is cultivated, ploughed or dug as | | | | coverage of plants the majority of the time. And |
| a technique of preparing the ground for crops. | | | | second, the soil must be protected so that |
| When this occurs, the carbon in the soil oxidizes | | | | oxidation of the carbon does not happen. With a |
| and is released into the atmosphere, contributing | | | | Food4Wealth plot, you soil isn't bare. |
| further to global warming. It's no longer soil, but a | | | | This is accomplished by having a diversified range |
| dead, noxious substance used to grow food in. | | | | of plants, all mixed up together, just like you |
| Most rural soils are terribly low in carbon. Carbon | | | | would see in a natural ecosystem. Just cover |
| can be increased by a selection of modified farm | | | | them with a generous surface layer of compost |
| practices, including going from ploughing to no-till | | | | and plant a seedling right into that layer. It'll shortly |
| cropping, and keeping crop stubble. | | | | fill the opening and your garden will be full again. |
| But many of us arent farmers, so that the | | | | As a person you can create an eatable carbon |
| problem appears to be out of our hands, and out | | | | sink in your own yard by following the |
| of our control. There is nonetheless a method to | | | | Food4Wealth technique. This suggests that you |
| grow food on a smaller scale that protects the | | | | wont be so conditional on eating food that's |
| soil, combats global warming and is so | | | | grown in a fashion that pumps more carbon into |
| straightforward that just about any person can | | | | the atmosphere. Therefore not merely will the |
| do it. When you make a Food4Wealth plot you | | | | planet be more healthy, but so will you. |