The ‘traditional’ farming process starts in September with a stubble field post-harvest. This is often disced/dragged to ‘ruffle the soil up’, ploughed to turn the soil over, and then drilled to plant the crop. The soil is disturbed at least twice and any carbon inside the soil is released. 

Instead, we direct drill also known as min till. Simply put, this means that any crops are drilled straight into the soil, without ‘turning over’ or disturbing the soil and land first. 

The benefits of this are, put simply: the good stuff (nitrogen and carbon etc) stays in the ground, to benefit the following crop.