In two recent speeches, Waste Farmers’ founder underscored both the importance and difficulties of cultivating a business in a new economy.
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For John-Paul Maxfield, enriching the soil isn’t just a business. “If we’re going to feed 9 billion people by 2050, we’re going to have go find new methods. Soil has been neglected throughout industrial agriculture. Anytime we harvest, we take something away and our agricultural model has been that we don’t need to put it back. We’ve got to go back and repair that.”