![]() While Hill notes that many farmers are still on the sidelines due to the extra cost of special equipment and such, a market is forming of companies who want to work with farmers to sequester carbon for cash. Who paid Hill for putting the carbon back into the soil? The e-Commerce platform Shopify, Arizona State University, and several individuals. Recently Hill’s farm of 10,000 acres sold its carbon credits for $16.50 per ton, through a Seattle-based startup called Nori, which allows companies and individuals to buy carbon credits to offset their own carbon emissions. Trey Hill uses clover, lentils, and rye as cover crops, and radishes and turnips for root crops as sequestration and regeneration agents in his corn field. ![]() MORE: This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Produces More Than ‘Flat Farms’ That Are Using 720 Acres A new carbon credit marketĮstimating that soil sequestration could account for 25% of the total climate mitigation strategies, Bossio and the team at Nature Conservancy detail in Nature that 47% of this strategy will involve agriculture. Instead, as it relates to mono-cash-crop agriculture, the vast majority of farming in the U.S., it involves using root crops to loosen and aerate the soil, and cover crops to shade it from the sun, introducing more microbial diversity, and sequestering more carbon in the plants roots. Principle among the regenerative farming practices is the lack of tilling, as it not only sends carbon into the atmosphere to become carbon dioxide, but it exposes soil microbes and fungus to harmful UV light, reducing soil biodiversity. Growing black cohosh, by Priya Jaishanker – CC license, Forest Farming However, according to Washington Post, this act of disturbing the soil-of breaking apart roots and exposing vulnerable microbes to the sun-has throughout human history sent up 133 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere.Īs Good News Network reported last year, regenerative agriculture, either through fancy jargon like “adaptive multi-paddock grazing” or “ agroforestry” or “permaculture,” totals one-fifth of all farming activities in the United States. The image of the ancient farmer with his till, breaking apart the ground to make way for seed is an iconic and even romantic land-use image. POPULAR: Washington Man Rescues 2.4 Million Pounds of Farmers’ Crops Going to Waste, Gets Them to Food Banks Across State A tale of tilling The market already earned him $115,000, with buyers paying him for having returned 8,000 tons of CO2 back into the ground. One such farmer is Marylander Trey Hill, featured in a Washington Post article introducing him as the first seller in a new private market of carbon credits based around this kind of farming.
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