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Colin Ramsay, Six Inches of Soil director: "Soil provides 95 per cent of our food so without soil there is no life"

Regenerative farming does not stop at the farmgate, says Colin Ramsay

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Colin Ramsay, Six Inches of Soil director: "Soil provides 95 per cent of our food so without soil there is no life"

Paul Harvey, an American radio broadcaster once said: "Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." Soil provides 95 per cent...

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