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Solutions Under Our Feet: Regenerative Agriculture

Luc Viatour (CC BY-NC) (Luc Viatour / www.Lucnix.be)
Summer field in Hamois, Belgium, with cornflowers and corn poppies in the foreground.

The Food Guys describe an article profiling one type of "regenerative agriculture," a form of organic, sustainable farming. "It's really about how small farmers are feeding the world, from the ground up, rather than agribusiness, with its monocultures, GMO crops, and poorly-paid farm workers," says Greg Patent. Integrating a poultry operation into grain-growing, and combining both with solar power generation and an aquaponics garden bed - all on one acre of land - is an example of small-scale regenerative agriculture that can be practiced by families or small cooperatives.

(Broadcast: "The Food Guys," 9/13/15 and 9/17/15. Listen weekly on the radio at 11:50 a.m. Sundays and again at 4:54 p.m. Thursdays, or via podcast.)

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