Wilbourne Farm in Virginia
James Dinneen
Kade Wilbourne pulls a lever, and several other tonnes of volcanic rock shoot out onto the sector behind us in a fan of blue-grey mud. We’re sitting within the cockpit of a tractor on the Wilbourne Farm in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Usually, soybean and corn yields are the metrics that matter most right here. However right this moment, what counts is carbon.
The soil on farms like that is already a serious reservoir of carbon, contained in natural type within the our bodies of microbes…
