Beyond Resilience
Restoring land to health means trying to return it to something like normal ecological conditions. But what if the definition of normal changes in the meantime?
land restoration
Pasture cropping: A regenerative solution from down under
Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting a cereal crop into perennial pasture on his sheep farm during the dormant period using no-till drilling, a method that uses a drill to sow seeds instead of the traditional plow. He calls it pasture cropping and he gains two crops this way from one parcel of land—a cereal crop for food or forage and wool or lamb meat from his pastures—which means its potential for feeding the world in a sustainable manner is significant.