The Land has featured Joe, a farmer participating to the Mulch Trial conduced by CORE, in last week’s newspaper. “This mulch has been absolutely amazing – we’ve been using it for 18 months now and started seeing results about six months in the trial” says Joe who has reduced chemical and fertiliser inputs, uses two to three times less water than he did before the mulch, has seen earthworms appear for the first time in his soil and yields have improved. “It proves that if you can look after your soil, your soil will look after you” says Joe.
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