Kiss the Ground is a documentary about activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians trying to turn to regenerative agriculture from the previous ways of farming, such as tilling and using chemical products on our crops, to save the Planet's topsoil and potentially the world. Over hundreds of yea...
Jessica Spalding –Jones
Kiss the Ground
2020
Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Josh Tickell
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Summary
Kiss the Ground is a documentary about activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians
trying to turn to regenerative agriculture from the previous ways of farming, such as
tilling and using chemical products on our crops, to save the Planet's topsoil and
potentially the world. Over hundreds of years, the human population has destroyed our
precious soil and turning it into dirt that cannot be used for farming and becomes
useless. (Durham, 2020) The ruined earth can lead to colossal sand storms or
mudslides. Since the soil is futile, it cannot absorb carbon dioxide back into the Ground
leading to an excessive amount of carbon dioxide in the air, extremely harmful to the
Planet and the human population. The documentary tries to explain and educate the
dire need to change the way we farm to save the Planet and how everyone can
participate.
Sustainably vs. regenerative
Sustainability means the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an
ecological balance. It is a loose set of agricultural practices that work together to sustain
farming's economic viability by working with biological processes rather than against
them. Sustainable agriculture addresses a holistic range of issues, such as water
management, crop management, soil fertility, energy management, waste management,
and disease/pest management, intending to make the farm more future-fit and resilient.
Regenerative means to restore something to the way it was. Regenerative farmers
apply a holistic management framework to restore the environment. It aims to store
carbon in soil and aboveground biomass, reversing current global issues that are
becoming more serious every day. Regenerative farming aims to restore lands to their
former productivity. Sustainable farming practices to maintain systems without
degrading them, where regenerative apply management techniques to restore the
system to improved productivity.
The Three pillars of sustainably
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