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“I didn't really appreciate bees until I became a farmer, and then I started to understand how essential bees are for our food. They pollinate 70% of our food, and that feeds 90% of the world. There's a whole world of insects that creates the color in our food; it's what creates the flavor in our food. It's part of our biodiversity, and it's essential for human life on Earth to protect and understand how to protect these bees and pollinators.
Soil has the power, through photosynthesis, to draw down carbon from the atmosphere. It's called biosequestration. It takes that carbon down into the roots, and then it turns it into healthy humus. That is the food for life in the soil. It needs that carbon. And so that is the purpose of plants. They breathe in the carbon and breathe out the oxygen.
We've forgotten that simple tool of the solutio ...
Keywords
Regenerative agriculture, soil health, pollinators, bees, biodiversity, climate change, food systems, environment, documentary filmmaking, Rebecca Tickell, Josh Tickell, Ellie Goulding, Angelina Jolie, Jason Momoa, Laura Dern, Woody Harrelson, Rosari