The Problem With Modern Agriculture

Let me just unpack that for people because it was such a beautiful thing you just described, which is that the plant extracts carbon from the environment, puts it down into the roots, that carbon feeds the microbiology of the soil, the fungi and the bacteria. Then the bacteria and fungi then in turn extract nutrients from the soil to feed the plant, which then makes the plant more nutritious and the food more nutritious.

So that's in a healthy good system, that's how it works. Really none of that happens in a conventional row crop model. Like that whole process is interrupted. There is no mining of nutrients out of the soil. There is no sequestering of carbon via the roots. So that whole process is really hijacked.

So essentially what you're saying is that modern agriculture doesn't produce living soil. So there's none of this going on. There's maybe a few bugs in there, a little bit of fungi, but it's not meaningful and it doesn't actually allow for proper nutrition of the plants. It doesn't allow for the storage of water and carbon in the soil. So it's a different view of how do we farm, right?