Carbon storage importance highlighted in Foxlowe film

A ‘GROUND-BREAKING’ approach to agriculture and climate is found in a new film ay Leek’s Foxlowe Arts Centre.

Fox Dox, the documentary wing of Foxlowe Films, have announced the upcoming screening on Wednesday, February 23 at 7.45pm at the Foxlowe Arts Centre of Kiss the Ground, the revolutionary film about the importance of soils for capturing and storing carbon.

Narrated by Hollywood star Woody Harrelson, it reveals how new farming practices (regenerative farming) can help stabilise the Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and provide more secure and resilient food production.

Alison Mccrea, Fox Dox’s coordinator and also a retired ecologist and soil scientist, said: “We tried to get this film before Covid, so are now delighted to have the go-ahead to screen it. I would like to call it ‘ground-breaking’ but in practice regenerative farmers and gardeners try to avoid disturbing the ground more than necessary.

“Their aim is to build up organic matter and thus carbon in the soil using those natural processes that over the years have been undermined by excessive ploughing and industrial farming.

“These approaches are more widely established in North America and Australia but are beginning to take off in the UK, to the extent of being addressed in the 2020 Agriculture Act.”

“This film has an important message for the Moorlands”, said Wendy Bohme, co-ordinator of the Nature Group at Moorlands Climate Action, which is cohosting the film.

“Soil is a particularly precious resource in this area and it is exciting and encouraging that all of us are looking at better ways of managing it.”