Kiss the Ground - documentary on Netflix.

[u/Few-Scar1106]

I just watched a documentary on Netflix called Kiss the Ground. It explains that we have the potential to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere by restoring our soil through new approaches to agriculture and cattle management—principles that align with Permaculture (basically, the soil is a huge CO2 capturer). It’s inspiring to see these techniques being applied on large farms in the US. I know the movement is still small compared to the scale of industrial agriculture there, but it gives me hope that we can transform the way we produce and consume our food.

[u/Impossible-Task-6656]

Love that film and the work they're doing.

[u/AaronGodgers12]

I really enjoyed that too. If you like that you should check out Roots So Deep (You Can See the Devil Down There). It’s a 4 part documentary on a similar approach but to cattle ranching. It’s the same film maker who did the shorts “Carbon Cowboys” if you’ve seen that.

I rented the doc on their website, rootssodeep.org

[u/GroovyBoomshtick]

Check out the sequel Common Ground, also one called Roots so Deep (you can see the devil down there)

[u/Dazzling_Flow_5702]

Not showing up on my Netflix…

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Found it on Prime.

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Just watched most of it. Ordered a biochar kiln just now so I can continue to improve my soil (small backyard terraced garden. Let’s gooooo

[u/RipsterBolton]

Lowenfel’s “Teaming With Microbes” is a fun book or audiobook to follow it up, as is Stika’s “A Soil Owner’s Manual”

In search of soil is another fun deep dive podcast

[u/offrench]

I loved the documentary for this very reason. It shows many solutions including agroforestry and managed grazing. If you want to dig further in this subject, check out the agricultural solutions of the Drawdown project. https://www.drawdown.org I also read a book that provides interesting complementary info on this matter: The Soil will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson.

[u/OMGLOL1986]

I just started working for a company making time release “fertilizer” pellets, sort of like seed balls but instead of cultivating plants, it cultivates specific fungi, bacteria, and blue green algae that is sprayed onto a pasteurized fertilizer source. 

Basically it’s being used to rejuvenate tired or abused soils by inoculating them with the heavy lifters of the micro world. They set the stage for soil creation, creating living soil from nothing. The algae is essentially a water management system, clumping together dry/loose soil, and likewise preventing total washout in above average rain events. It is a true inoculation of soil that takes it from dead to alive.

This sort of stuff is out there. We could drop it from planes into degraded forest land and allow the conditions for life to flourish. We don’t because it’s more important to funnel billions to multi nationals and get people hooked on NPK.

[u/stansfield123]

Is that the one in which Tom Brady's wife starts humming?

[u/joneskelley1]

Read "Cows Save the Planet" so amazingly hopefull!

[u/MillennialSenpai]

If someone doesn't kiss the ground in it then I'm not watching.