Soil health movement restoring agriculture
by The Daily Eye Team April 16 2014, 10:17 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 37 secsFarmers started the soil health movement that Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Greensboro, N.C., sees as the solution to energy, climate, air and water quality and human health issues. “Farmers are learning to farm in nature’s image, and they are healing the land,” said Archuleta during a recent workshop at the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. He also gave the Shivvers Lecture at Iowa State University. “No more diapers, no more bandaids,” said Archuleta, who is known as the “Soil Guy.” “The only way to heal the land is through understanding.”