Carbon Farming & Permaculture
Airlines say 'click this button to offset your carbon emissions' but often this just means planting a fir tree and destroying biodiversity in the process. Instead, our Carbon Farming project allows you to invest in planting local and rare tree varieties that will sink carbon while increasing biodiversity and maintaining the historic significance of an old Italian farm.
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While we're just getting started, in our first two years alone we've already planted nearly 2,000 trees of local ancient varieties and 600 vines of local ancient varieties and built two zero-fuel natural water pumps to pump rainwater back up onto our land and the land of a neighbouring small-scale farmer, keeping the new trees alive.
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Our goal is to build on Le Marche's existing agro-diverse culture of small-holder farming. We want to see the region become a global leader in regenerative agriculture, guided by four key principles:
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(1) increasing soil fertility,
(2) protecting biodiversity,
(3) prioritising water retention,
(4) promoting soil carbon sequestration.