The soil health practices employed by SoilKeepers are designed to increase carbon and nitrogen storage
A one-time application of 1/2″ of compost on 1/3 of the planet’s land would absorb our yearly output of four billion tons of human-produced atmospheric carbon.
This diagram shows the movement of carbon between land, atmosphere, soil and oceans in billions of tons of carbon per year. Yellow numbers are natural fluxes, red are human contributions in billions of tons of carbon per year. White numbers indicate stored carbon.
The largest sink we have to store more carbon is our soil. Through our work, we reduce the supply of carbon from land use change and increase the demand for soil carbon uptake.
Our clients ask, “how much can we help?” Based on one application of 1/2″ of quality compost (and not including possible increase attributable to increased soil organism health) we can approximate that an additional ~ 700 lbs. of carbon per acre per year is removed from the surrounding environment and added to the soil. Ryals et al., 2013
