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back is a challenge for humanity. we have to think in terms of $30.00 to $40.00, maybe even 100 year would not java. but the potential is massive as soil is our best hopes, the saving the planet for the c o 2 and the atmosphere could be captured in our soil. even in the middle of the city, we can free up and restore soil. we don't have to seal all this ground and we should be conscientious. but can we learn to bring the ground back to life rather than just trampling on it? ah, syrian the green heart of austria. yoseph nagel is the

10th generation of farmers to til these veils he's aware that his children will also have to live on this land. so he decided to radically transform the way he farms for yeah, we used to just work with a plow. now this is my machines, thus my new machine. his machine is a cultivator. the prongs only comb the surface of the earth a plow on the other hand penetrates deeper bringing sub soil to the top and disturbing soil life. yoseph nagel has switched from conventional agriculture to humans farming. that means not only planting grain right, seed and turnips, but also building up humus. humus farming gives the soil more than it takes and requires new techniques. we had a low current on we loosen and mixed the earth. we don't turn it any more. hemlaw chronus. when i loosen it, i make sure i don't go to deal with the fish and that i work with the smallest

possible quantity, large sharon, of, in the cultivate a space. worms, bacteria, and fungus. it works, crop residues into the soil and thus provides food for like in a compost heap. the microorganisms turn plant parts into valuable soil. in this sense a human farm and nourishes the soil rather than crops. conventional agriculture is different. crops consume nutrients from the earth. artificial fertilizer is added as needed, and the soil is further damaged by regular plowing, mona cultures and pesticides. this is also what use if nagel was taught and how he used to farm. until one day something happened which changed everything. that

i had a serious accident which made me change my business pretty carefully. if we hadn't for cut hope say i survived cover that i had a lot of guardian, angels, dusky barnum. it got me thinking and made me decide to change how i want from you for tomorrow. i have no use of nagel was almost killed by a tree while doing forestry work. he was in hospital severely injured for a long time and began to think about what he really wanted to leave his children. they would inherit dead soil if he continued to pharmacy happy. the farmer decided that he feet survived his fields would get a new lease of life as well. he found help close to his farm, where 3 local communities joint forces to form the ecological region of kind off in austria, their aim is to rebuild humans. gerald dunst is one of the plane, is he in fellow campaigners share knowledge in the so called humorous academy that was not previously taught in agricultural colleges use of novel and other farmers.

a learning how soil can be farmed to become more fertile by the year. and how earth worms of valuable team members the liver, garage, earth was created by god, but excavated by earth. worms, with enough earthworms don't disappear. they just get buried in rain were receiving the most stable kind of humorous horse. ah, gara. dunst was one of the founders of the eco region, which has since been imitated all over europe. people here say agriculture needs a radical shift in mindset of your husband, and that's the thing. in the last decades, we mastered the art of extracting the maximum from the soil word back, then we didn't know that the so it would get progressively weaker and that more and more humans would be lost from answering in the problem is that the farmers experience is built on this down which degrade soil the and which worked for decades, but yet st longer forget. ah,

a day at the humorous academy begins with theory classes and gives farmers chance to share experiences. afternoons are spent out in the field where they can see, feel, and smell. what makes me healthy and humorous rich soil mine lloyd's in southern germany. a small town doing big things here to the soil is to be revived. these colossal building in the middle of town is the former spinning plant. the industrial ruin is the size of 20 football fields. robert torch wants to change this. he's been mer since 2016, but the politicians from the christian social union grew up here and recalls the time when the spinning factory was still in use. a happy man acting good. i remember the smell, the 1st and i worked here in my school holidays between age of 15 to 70 was my job was to clear the shot at the fluff that had gathered during the year. i know he had

his anger song at home in its heyday, 3000 people worked at the spinning plant. it went bankrupt during the economic crisis of 2008. since then, the old factory has been falling into disrepair and unnecessarily ceiling the soil . but mayor robert bush and landscape architect vanna oak of it's have a plan oak of it is a specialist in unsealing ground and reviving soil that was locked down to concrete pieces. great potential, especially in smaller places like mine, loyce, the album, their stock and exec different indiscreetly places relied. i industry one officer here back when i was growing, i know and thought about the environment by so large areas were concrete at over enormous support. and so i think there's a big potential to actively change the on ski, like here in somebody who has all can dinner on savannah. the will to change things in mind. loyce is strong. many of the old factory holes,

as well as the concrete flooring to be gotten rid of so that in just a few weeks, rain can fall on the soil again. good now, right here is where we will 1st take open the congress and then we will cultivate the soil beneath winter or on the spot. there will be a connecting path to the park. if the rest will be a grain area there. if we don't know what the ground is like on the eel, because the building has stood on it for over $100.00 towards the sun. ah, the plans for the town center a represented by these model. the past can easily be lifted out and replaced with the future. the plan is to have appointments, gastronomy and offices, partly in the old holes, and plenty of green spaces, hammered and pike, nearly half the park with a leg to fight for the buildings have gone, said the water can get back into the i guess, as if the savage water will have

a positive effect on the micro climate equal hm. and water will be able to drain again autumn. still. this means the new town center will be able to better withstand climate change. and the living soil will extract c o. 2 from the atmosphere. it's a concept that should attract public funding. the idyllic beauty of these countryside is deceptive. here and run a book to india. the ground is still contaminated from the g d i years when uranium was mind here using rather reckless methods to these die, the area poses a threat to human health and the environment. ah, microbiologist, erica, kuta and geologists, thorsten schaefer one to eliminate that danger and revive the soil so that it's healthy or even useful. again,

this spending a week on the site together with students and researchers from the university of yena. they're investigating water, soil and plants here. what have 40 years of uranium mining done to the land? in 1949, europe's largest uranium reserves were found here. they were exploited for the soviet atomic industry. work has extracted the all from the mine. unprotected acids were used in the uranium extraction which released highly toxic heavy metals. thousands of people died of lung diseases such as silicosis. org cancer. the toxic burden still weighs heavy to day. but thanks to biology, even this contaminated soil could be made useful for cultivation. again, this takes the right bacteria, fungus and plants working together. they can't remove the heavy metals,

but they can capture them in mineral form or bind them to the roots allied it mesh. today, i want the heavy metals to stay in the eye, not be washed out with the ground water, so they have to be captured. if hesky leaked viet captured here, means holding the toxins so that they can no longer get into the water leaves, or would they effectively become immobile. the solution could help to remediate contaminated soil, not only in the side, but in many places around the world. thus, if he had, if has walked flesh in a class, here is a test failed, a small one of our talk, but the idea is transferable on to the former uranium mine. he and i and to all other full man mining land sunshine, not all areas impacted by mining, where currently nothing is growing often to next. my organic fax research is cannot give a precise figure as to how much land area is affected. but we know that it's many

thousands of square kilometers world wide. yet the growing demand for rural materials, including for lithium, cobalt and nickel, used in batteries and cell phones means more and more areas of becoming dangerous and unusable for agriculture. 6 months ago the students put special bacteria into the earth and as i now they want to know whether they have multiplied and started to capture the toxins. vendor helium equal, i guess there are a lot of micro organism mess up the to breathing. then there's a lot of activity in the soil than it's healthy soil. now borden, if there isn't much breathing going on, that's a sign that the conditions are poor one who possibly due to the heavy metals emma tried and not many micro organisms can live and breathe that up. when con, while erica cooter is investigating the development on the ground with the students, thorsten schiffer checks out what has been happening over ground from up in the air

. the drone has special senses to ascertain how the trees are growing. in the beginning only all the trees would grow here, but in the meantime, birch and willows can also be planted. the timber will later be sold to cover part of the re mediation costs. thorsten schafer is more than happy with the development then it's just the bicycle. it's not on the book for when i drive out to horrible. now cause or i'm out in this new landscape with my family done with this guns. i feel proud of campus installed stuff this here shows that landscape can be given a new purpose. norion's van that we can give something back to society, which after we're game come me, but it will take generations for the ground to recover completely haven't finished . however,

we're not talking about 10 years here. you haven't been and so on. but i think we have to think in terms of 30 to 40, maybe even 100 years of until we can leave this system to its own devices and current on his transcripts to the lesson plan lou steel. it's a chance not only for ron, a book, but a solution which could revive lost ground world wide o back in austria, where the farmers in syria are out in the field. oh no, it was the 1st practical lesson of the human academy touching the crumbling, needing and feeling the soil. i asked but also what we see here is exactly what we want. the soil is falling apart. it's loose and

crumbly. this rick dickie oak gloomily. deb open this, so brings a range of benefits. i was your firstly, there is no erosion and secondly, it is much easier to far yet. it's just not as labor intensive opened again. and thirdly, there's a guaranteed harvest because the earth is much better at absorbing and storing the water name and that should come you less rich soil can absorb up to 150 liters of water in one hour as a comparison, 200 liters in 2 days lead to the r valley flood catastrophe in 2021. but building up humus needs time and effort. we have now can it up. it took us generations to deplete the humans. so we can expect everything to be repaired in one or 2 years. we need to understand that getting the soil back to good condition is a project for generation based on tucson took on the most important

rule is to always have something growing by the crops or inter implants that's not only good for battling erosion, the guitar to lose that i'm, it means mass growth through the root excretions back. so what the woods, i'll try to woo hoo. it's effectively a carbon pump from the air to the soil, to hold the font aloft. important plants absorb carbon dioxide and still the carbon in the earth, which is good for the climate and for soil life. the working day on the field is over but not for gara dunst. humus is both his job and his vocation ever since he 1st experimented with compost in his grandmother's garden at the age of 13. to day the 63 year old make soil to him the world climate report of 20. 07 was both a wake up coal and an opportunity we and factual key at random position chemo rango . so we were shocked that the climate could change so much, and we said we have to do something. the idea was to make one region c,

o 2 neutral by no prime, yet. the keys, right cultivation of the soil. oh, states humans consists of 50 percent carbon for the c, a china atmosphere could be captured in our soil. and bert blatt's. soil is a giant stora of carbon, but only a fraction of its potential is used. it could absorb all the c o 2 emissions caused by humans to reach this target. the carbon in the soil would have to rise annually by 0.4 percent. frances government is aiming for this with its full po, $1000.00 initiative in 2015, many nations including germany committed to these goals at the cop climate summit in paris at least on paper. one problem is a lack of expertise and of funding as this transformation is costly in kind off,

they didn't want to white for subsidies, ah venting to have to so we searched for a way to fund our project and it only makes sense if many farmers join in to make a difference to climate change, even taking team of angela doesn't cagle to say, oh, they came up with a system in which any one in kind of who builds up humus on their field, gets a certificate. every certified ton of carbon in the soil is worth a cash premium. the system benefits both the climate and farmers in mind. lewis, they also need money to re nature the earth. the community applied for funding from the federal government for the demolition redesign and re nature in the form of spinning factory. the local buddhist hug. member and soil now support to the application. after a long wait, she has news from berlin in bavaria. i think around 15 communities have received the funding and i am pleased that you are one of them,

which is also thanks to your good contact chap naturally. i remember when robert became mayor here in my life, this was one of the main projects he wanted to push. and it's a phenomenal project in breakfast and fast decanters is my life. at last the diggers can get to work. 14 hector's, of this former industrial complex, an area twice as large as berlin's potsdam plots are to be broken up. the vegetated soil will not only offer a living space for plants and animals. it will be good for people to. he can cool the ground by up to 8 degrees in summer, absorb heavy rain and improve air quality. regaining ground in mind, loyce ever since mer robert bush learned about the wide reaching effects. this can have the project has been a top priority for him. these days he sees his hometown with fresh eyes spotting

opportunity on every corner. with every measure big or small, i ask myself whether the soil needs to be sealed or whether concrete can be removed . when i look around now or onto the street, i see areas that could be unsealed printer. this mindset would be useful across germany. every day, 50 to hector's, the equivalent of 72 football fields of earth gets buried under asphalt or concrete . even though the german government's climate protection plan set the maximum to 30 hacked is robert bush. his latest project is an area which had been earmarked for industry. but then the local council canceled the plan after seeing the potential of the repurposed form, a spinning factory events in if you had asked me 15 years ago, i would have told you it's great to use the slant of a construction to seal the soil surface on the concrete and i development of spending mill site showed us. you can unseal

a concrete it area and revive it. test it was a process. and now i see ammonia wants to picture that, and i'm convinced we don't have to seal all land services. and we have to monitor the use of our land and restrict it and, and we can bring new life to the old more just as we're trying to do. and our towel, sentinel re purposing existing buildings instead of concrete thing as a free space. giving unused spaces back to nature. these steps are effective for combating urban sprawl. not just in mind. loyce. here in the west pomeranian village of doro, bluff shanella, is breathing new life into the ground. 25 years ago, the trained gardener left berlin to come out here where land was still affordable. but the soil was in a bad state, which happens that i took over ailing soil rapes, it had been grown here every 3rd year. rape seed is christopher morris. and christopher as plants always bring soil disease to the earth, it was really noticeable. the fact then there was some plants i simply couldn't

grow long. i'm unfun, healthy soil needs diversified crop rotation. different crops have different effects on the soil. for example, pulses such as veins, concentrate nitrogen in the soil, and nitrogen acts like fertilizer. one of schnell is methods these so called area rotting, which adds nutrients, similar to cow dung. buses. we mo, it all down, chop it up at a plant ferment and then work that into the soil done. the basic idea comes from prairie landscapes is on which a wide diversity of vegetation grows here and which a grazed by ruminant animal is amusing. up, covered at work. fund ruminants, faces are full of micro organisms that have passed through its rumen of one of its stomachs was it's this mid recall gunnison but instead of from a cows rumen here, the microorganisms develop in a bucket. they developing wild herbs the garden are gathered locally

of year them every leave essentially has different bacterial coaches. we're trying to multiply these by adding sugar cane molasses of and a bit of salt so that especially the lactic acid bacteria multiply. miss overbooked hands if on me, and those are the ones found in the cows digestive tract in its room, in a po for come. so we are imitating the cows intestines in here, or dom your turner in canada, this is what makes the ground fertile and the end and as the nose, moth shanella sprays the herbal dung on the interim plans which are then mow down and worked into the surface a simple but effective method. it's been so gushed or do you have to go? i studied god and it was a she a matter. but what i'm doing here is uncovered in gardening, degrees of soil science,

and fertilization were 2 separate subjects back vantage aga, no one understood that they actually belonged together. how does this but slowly, especially on the practical side of things, what we're doing here is becoming more and more present for this me on board. some team of us are yamaha, a holistic approach, where the gardener nourishes the soil rather than the plants. the 56 year old has not yet reached his goal, but he's very pleased about one thing that the thing is looked at by the plants, the health of my plants, as they it is the end of august and there are no effort on these broadband blood flow as a palm harbor. that's really because these domains are completely nourished, normal, the soil 1st indic on the unclean or subordinate my laws. all of shanella supplies took restaurants all over germany, with his vegetables from doro, including berlin. sometimes the gardener even delivers his properties personally, for example, to

a berlin restaurant which has just been awarded with the newly introduced green michelin style, the gardener, and the sheriff. matter to trade fair. jeff luda sees many reasons to buy vegetables from olaf shanella of info, or it's definitely due to the quality of the product. it was just unbeatable items and that i drew for all the suppliers. we work with sir oscar, we are very selective on targets. i want to work with great people who enjoy what they do is mark massey, martin, or dad. we look for sustainable. and regenerative products shall be typed on. these build something up, stuff instead of destroying monitors from mission that was could put mot ah, st. louis. in stereo, austria, this dedication is tangible. they build up good soil, which leads to healthy, produce, and benefits. the climate. the farmers cannot manage this without support. so the eco region is connecting them with private in jewels and businesses. one of the

network is, is johann booth maya effective the companies pay for the foreigners to pump c o 2 out of the atmosphere into the ground. something most companies cannot do themselves on the market. so it's money from society by a companies, but it gets diverted into sustainability, an ecologically friendly agriculture, angelina. all these must 1st be verified, a job for florian, for sure. equipped with measuring tools and a top secret map, he examines yoseph nozzles, pumpkin fields. the farmer does not know wherefore she is taking his samples. these, calculating how much carbon the soil has retained since the last measurement off. then we take at least 25 samples from these failed. the sample is then mixed

and marginalized and taken to the bar, a tree for testing homes la boycott. the results will determine the farm as cash premium. it's a big day for use if nagel, as he's finding out to what extent his hard work will pay off. johan book maya has the results i yoke and he had a fair. i said, be nice to see you have my then i get a nozzle has been building up humus on his field since 2016. his products have definitely improved. as the farmer demonstrates with his pumpkin cd coil, a regional specialty vanished as life when i tilted segment the thought i can see that there is no read all brown coloring or old order. it really has a green color and it could ruin a shower to have into so his essence of paid off for the harvest. but what about in terms of carbon innocent, how much has nah, gold captured from the atmosphere and stored in his fields. finally,

y'all can book my ashes, the figures were missing, aton and sailed. sy, how many tons of c o 2 has a father managed to capture in this earth and set his case? he captured 152 time left. that offended which will certify thea, at the moment, farmers get 30 years proton of seo to the longest. i think i'd open up on that so it's by, oh, that makes full 1500 urines use of novel is more than happy with his premium. and with his contribution to climate protection, he full farmers in germany cultivated their fields to build up humans as novel does . it would compensate for all of the c o, 2 emissions of the german transport sector. working the soil for our climate and regaining ground. the eco region of kind of shows that this is possible and rewarding. ah

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