Even as floods inundated the fields of his neighbors, making sowing impossible, his holdings were largely unaffected. Bollig farms organically, and the natural methods he uses to improve his soil allow his fields to hold more water when it rains.
We have a farm full of life today, he says. Wildflowers, insects, pollinators – it's a perfect symbiosis, as they feed on the pests on the crops. And the soil is full of worms.
It was so bad, that we considered spraying, Bollig says. But he kept faith in the organic process, and two weeks later the pests were gone and the fields full of ladybirds.
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