A leader in regenerative agriculture wants farmers to mimic nature instead of trying to control it.
Ray Archuleta is a professional soil scientist who spent more than 30 years working for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. He tells Brownfield modern agriculture has been built on the wrong premise.
“It should’ve always been ‘how do we emulate nature? How do we mimic it? How do we work with it? How do we synergize (and) have relationship with it?’ What I was taught in college (was) ‘how do we force it?
