Even a summer of “terrible” weather hasn’t dampened Jenny Lux’s enthusiasm for her organic and regenerative market garden. Today, she grows a “highly diverse” range of organic produce – from herbs and microgreens to tomatoes, chilies, silverbeet, and pumpkins. Her concern about the heating planet also led the family business to regenerative farming techniques to maximize soil health so it can absorb greenhouse gas and store it out of harm’s way. Organic crops produce far less of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, per acre of land, than farms using synthetic fertilizer. But one study published in the journal Scientific Reports found that, even taking yield into account, organic farming comes out ahead.
