Rich, healthy soil helps his crops withstand both floods and droughts.
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For Will Brownback, owner of Spiral Path Farm in Pennsylvania, growing healthy food starts with growing healthy soil.
On his 300-acre organic farm, he adds compost to his fields. And he grows cover crops that he later tills into the soil, where they add nutrients as they decompose.
All this organic material helps create rich, loose soil, which benefits his farm in multiple ways.
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