MBS504 - How a $6 billion agroforestry industry is fighting climate change - Ethan Steinberg (Built in Colorado #1)
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English - November 02, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MB - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsBusiness business entrepreneurships technology authors startups business news crypto Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ethan is the co-founder and CEO of Propagateag.com - a startups that has raised $15M to grow their market share of the agroforestry industry. Agroforestry is the integration of fruit, nut and timber trees with animal or crop farming systems. Strategies such as alley cropping, silvopasture, windbreaks, and riparian buffers can compliment existing yields, increasing your farm's profitability while securing cost savings through ecosystem services such as carbon, water, nutrient, and soil retention.
Agroforestry Sequesters Carbon Our carbon cycle is currently broken: by way of fossil fuel usage and land degradation, humans are currently converting terrestrial carbon into atmospheric carbon far more quickly than we are putting that carbon back into the ground. A tree is the opposite of a smoke stack. Trees pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in their woody trunk and branches. Just as much carbon can also be stored below-ground in the tree’s roots and soil. Via the liquid carbon pathway, tree roots release sugars into the soil. These sugars feed the beneficial fungi and bacteria in the soil, which in turn provide the tree with the nitrogen it needs to grow. Dead soil looks like sand or the base path of a baseball field, whereas living soil looks like chocolate cake. The accumulation of soil carbon, along with the deposition of leaves onto the soil surface brings soil back to life.
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