Each year, roughly a billion pounds of pesticides are sprayed nationwide, much of it on land that produces our food. A group known as regenerative farmers sees this as a major problem, and they want to restore America’s soil.Â
Lisa Williams, a first-generation farmer in Newton Grove, North Carolina is making soil health a priority on her 55-acre farm. Instead of relying on pesticides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers, she and her son, Lance, fertilize their fields with cow manure.
“We can change our health and our communities just by focusing on soil health,” Williams said.Â
Soil health is at the heart of regenerative farming, using methods such as no-till farming, cover cropping, and cattle and crop rotation. One key element is limiting or eliminating manufactured pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. For the Williams, it’s taken about four years to restore the land in order to raise healthier cows and chickens to feed her family.
“It’s really simple: if you have healthy soil, you have healthy grasses,” said Williams. “If you have healthy grasses, you have healthy livestock. In our case, it’s Hereford cattle.”Â
Their Herefords have no antibiotics and are drug-free, with nothing sprayed on them.
“So, we can put about any
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