Kiss the Ground

Here is a NASA video I saw on the movie “Kiss the Ground”, a Netflix documentary released earlier this year that focuses on the importance of cultivating healthy soils. 

When watching the video, pay attention to the date clock on the bottom left – in March or so you can see when farmers start discing up their fields to bare dirt. Later, in June, you see the colors going blue over the USA, which is when the crops are growing in the fields and absorbing the CO2. 

Here’s a breakdown on my thoughts while watching the movie: 

• Synthetic farming is a man-made fertilization process where we take inorganic compounds (usually derived from the oil & gas industry) and add them into the soil. These chemical fertilizers add nutrients to the soil, but nothing else. 

         In other words: with synthetic farming we get “special dirt”.

• Regenerative agriculture is a conservation approach to farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration and strengthening the health & vitality of farm soil. Practices include recycling as much farm waste as possible and adding composted material from sources outside the farm. This allows yield to increase over time.

         So with regenerative agriculture, we get healthy soil that can yield better 

         products. 

• Only 5% of farms are managed for soil health. 
• There are 3 main contributors of CO2:

            1. India v. China – Neither country signed on to the French plan to change 

                farming.

            2. Regenerative Farming – Most land being farmed is NOT owned by the 

                farmer.

            3. Federal Farm program – It’s the most detrimental thing to regenerative 

                agriculture.

• Cover crops & no-till can regenerate soil 19x faster, if done intentionally.  

Overall I’m left wondering…..What can we do TODAY to ensure our children can flourish in the FUTURE?

And how amazing would it be to have OKLAHOMA as a state known for CARBON sequestering after all these years of being the wild west of oil and gas?