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is estimated that a teaspoon of soil contains 50 billion organisms: far more than the number of people in the world. Something we can all do is be kind to our soil and feed these microbes with compost and mulch. According to soil scientists, the top metre of the world’s soil contains three times more carbon than the entire atmosphere. Every time we add mulch or compost, we are maintaining this. On the other hand, rotavating can damage this delicate ecosystem
just as much as a fire damages a forest. We don’t have to go to the amazon rainforest to do our bit to protect the planet.
Russell Attwood,
NAS East Midlands Deputy Rep