Purposeful Insects! Termites

How often do you take time out to watch the smaller insects in this world?

Often frowned upon in a farming environment because they eat crops, we have learned to embrace these little insects in our Regenerative Agricultural practices. They want to eat dry dead matter so that is what we feed them in the form of mulch on top of the soil. We never plough our soil and in return the Termites will use a specific bacteria in their gut to convert the mulch they remove deep underground into fungus. This fungus is actually what the termites eat and feed their family. This same fungus has the ability to grow around the roots of the plants which aids in extra absorption of nutrients and water, making the plants stronger to fight off diseases and pests which allow us to use less chemicals on our crops (we have actually been chemical free for 5 years).

If we plough, we kill the fungus and destroy the Termites holes which also serve as drainage holes for when it rains.

We love leaving nature to take over and work how it wants to work with very little interfering from us. It shows with the colourful and flavoursome food we are producing.

I hope you enjoy being drawn into a world I often get distracted by in day to day life :)