At Apricot Lane Farms, John and Molly Chester are using nature to restore the soil—and creating a model for how to rethink the damaging aspects of agriculture.
Modern farming techniques have brought the world a wonderful bounty of agriculture, but they’ve also been terrible news for the Earth’s “digestive system,” the delicate 10 to 12 inches of topsoil where the majority of our food is grown. More than half of our available soil worldwide is now classified as “degraded,”...