Letting things go feral seemed like a good idea. I had recently learned about carbon-positive agriculture, sometimes called carbon farming, and wanted to apply those principles on a smaller suburban scale in my Blue Mountains vegetable and fruit-growing endeavors.
Carbon-positive farming is a simple concept: remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it into the soil. In agriculture, it offers a potentially significant part of the solution to address the global crises of climate change.
The more carbon in the soil, the healthier it is. The most obvious way for a backyard gardener to get more organic matter back into the soil is by composting all plant-based organic waste, including leaves.
Composting actually helps break down all the leaves and other things into a more stable form of carbon; that means that it doesn't get released quickly.
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