Kevin Espiritu

you're not taking more from the land than you are putting back into it, which right now we are doing.

And when I say taking more, putting back, what are these things that we're taking and putting?

It's the nutrient inputs.

It's the topsoil loss.

It's the organic matter that you're taking.

Because if you think about a garden, let's say you grow a plot of corn.

that corn, when you harvest it out, you're taking mass from the system.

You're taking it out.

And yeah, some of that is being generated by photosynthesis and carbon that's being sequestered from the air.

From the CO2 in the air.

From the CO2 in the air, yeah.

But what people will do these days, or stuff that we'll do in our backyard or we'll promote, is regenerative practices where you are adding back as much as you are.

And yeah, maybe you are leaving something

for a crop called a cover crop, which you're basically just growing to generate biomass that you will cut and leave in place.

Leave in place.

Yes.

Yes, of course.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I mean, I think corn's an interesting one because corn is one of the crops, of course, that we've modified, right?

So most of the corn that you're seeing like in those fields is like a single ear hybrid corn variety that is only going to produce one per stock.