Links   New Report Points To A Positive Future For Green Farming | National Trust Places http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49523/new-report-points-to-a-positive-future-for-green-farming-national-trust-places/   Africa’s Top Cotton Grower Sees Good Crop After Monsanto Ban « GreenStitched http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49495/africas-top-cotton-grower-sees-good-crop-after-monsanto-ban-greenstitched/   Cornell Online Permaculture course starts October 24. – Cayuta Sun Farm http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49631/cornell-online-permaculture-course-starts-october-24-cayuta-sun-farm/   Can Trees communicate with each other? – ESP Adelaide http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49492/can-trees-communicate-with-each-other-esp-adelaide/   Mycelium Miracle Workers | elizabethterp’s Blog http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49486/mycelium-miracle-workers-elizabethterps-blog/   In what way is the soil dynamic, rather than a lifeless, static body? | Soils Matter, Get the Scoop! http://www.worldorganicnews.com/49597/in-what-way-is-the-soil-dynamic-rather-than-a-lifeless-static-body-soils-matter-get-the-scoop/   Transcript This is the World Organic News Podcast for the week ending 3rd of October 2016. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with a post from the UK National Trust:  New Report Points To A Positive Future For Green Farming. Quote New markets worth millions per year could help to support farming methods that reduce flooding, provide clean water and restore wildlife, for the benefit of all. End Quote In effect the report highlights the need to feed the soil. Reduced flooding, clean water and restored wildlife all come from a healthy soil. Soil that is never bare. Healthy soil holds more water, mitigates floods and provides the grounding, pun intended, for good tree growth. To do this requires both a paradigm shift and its accompanying price signals. To quote Patrick Begg, Rural Enterprises Director at the UK National Trust.: “Farmers should be paid fairly for producing great food in a way that supports the long term health of our farmland. The Natural Infrastructure Scheme is about creating a market for services from farming that today go unrewarded – reducing flood risks, improving water quality and creating homes for wildlife, while at the same time opening up new revenue opportunities for farmers.”                      End Quote. This leads inevitably to penalising, maybe through taxation, those who use systems which destroy soils. I looking at you, chemical, fossil fuel based systems pushed by Monsanto and Bayer. The doomsday scenarios they paint if farmers dare to walk away from them are shown to be mere bluster in a post from GreenStiched: Africa’s Top Cotton Grower Sees Good Crop After Monsanto Ban. Not only have the cotton farmers of Burkina Faso dumped the poorly paying, on international markets, Monsanto short fibre BtCotton, their government is discussing compensation from Monsanto for the price difference between the short and long fibre production. Most production is still chemically based but removing the BtCotton is a good first step for this cotton dependant nation. For those with an internet connection, the time and the inclination, the blog from Cayuta Sun Farm informs us of a Cornell Online Permaculture course starting October 24. This looks like a great course! You receive the info online, put it into practice where you live. Hands on and distance education at the same time. Now to return to a pet subject of mine: Mycelium! The blog ESP Adelaide, that’s ESP as in Eastern Suburbs Permaculture, produced a post: Can Trees communicate with each other? I hope by now we all know the answer to that one. Yes, yes they can and yes they do. In this post there’s a great video from Dr Suzanne Simard on her work from the last thirty years. Really, really worth a watch! elizabethterp’s Blog follows this theme with a post:Mycelium Miracle Workers. This post points out the importance of the fungal communities and our dependence upon th