Healthy soil focus of California organic conference

A national push Nate Lewis, a Contract Consultant formally who served the Organic Trade Association as their farm policy director and a former certification coordinator for the State of Washington Department of Agriculture, talked about the national push toward healthier soils. “Organic production practices fix carbon in the soil – they take carbon from the atmosphere and put it back in the soil, proven by research at Northeastern University and supported by the Organic Center, which tested over a thousand soil samples from all across the country and compared those to samples from conventional farms, proving that organic production practices create a sustainable, healthier soil full of micronutrients,” he told attendees. The HSP Incentives Program provides financial assistance for implementation of conservation management that improve soil health, sequester carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.