Composting

Composting is the bedrock of many an organic and regenerative farm. We take our composting very seriously, striving for continuous improvements. We are working assiduously hard to make more fungal dominated composts from our current bacterially dominated composting system. We are also beginning to try to more actively integrate IMOs into our composting. We are also working on starting to properly brew compost tea brews this year for foliar applications and soil drenches. All these practices will help us utilize the “microbiral carbon pump” and the “liquid carbon pathway” to achieve carbon drawdown and sequester enormous amounts of carbon in the soils. Drawdown Farm produces the largest on-farm composting in all of Pakistan. By a huge margin. And we’re extremely grateful for the opportunity to do so.

Since the advent of modern organic agriculture, the emphasis was always on improving the soil first to improve crop health and stave off the use of chemicals. There is now cutting edge science which deploys the use of strategically crafted and timed foliar applications on crops to also build soil while growing very healthy crops. This has the potential to dramatically speed up the regeneration of soils globally. At Drawdown Farms we are closely following the science and hope to implement everything possible in our context. Expect updates as we do and learn more..

Project Drawdown notes composting as a solution with the potential for staving off at least 2.28 billion gigatons of CO2. The beauty of a top quality compost is that - depending on the situation - a little can go a long way. Compost is also additive and exponential - much like remineralizing the soil with rock dusts such as basalt help the soils sequester more carbon, quality composts can also help make the soil food web much better functioning (or enlivening them to begin with in highly degraded soils), which in turn ramps up the soil’s potential for sequestering more carbon. The more a soil thrives, the more carbon it can store.