THE LIGHT AND CARBON FARMING

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«The forest grows luxuriant thanks to light and carbon, without human intervention»

Alessandro Filippi

Let’s observe the forest: it is alive, it is powerful, it is fertile soil, yet no one fertilizes it and cares for it. What’s its secret?

The intuition of the Light and Carbon Farming was born in me when I learned of studies dating back to the late nineteenth century, beginning of the twentieth century, on why woodland is so fertile compared to agricultural land.

In the woods there is no one who goes to fertilize or carry out treatments, but there are mighty plants growing like oaks, beeches or cypresses. Plants that can even penetrate the rock on substrates that in practice have only a thin layer of earth. What is it that allows all this strength, this power?

Studies have shown that the merit of so much fertility of the soil is of vegetal carbon coming from the slow degradation of lignin…

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