One farm’s experiment with multiple carbon capture methods

Kade Wilbourne pulls the lever and several tons of volcanic rock are shot into the field behind us with a fan of blue-gray dust. Sitting in the cockpit of a tractor at Wilborn Farm in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Soy and corn yields are usually the most important indicator here. But today, carbon is important.

The soils of such farms are already the main reservoirs of carbon, and are found in organic forms in the microorganisms…