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CARBON FARMING IN AMERICA - ABE COLLINS Carbon Farmers of America, LLC was created in 2006 by a group of family farmers in Vermont and Massachusetts committed to the health of the Earth and dedicated to rebuilding prosperity in our rural communities. Carbon Farmers of America trains, equips and provides ongoing consultation and support to member farmers across America to rapidly create new, high organic-matter topsoil. With our member farmers, we carefully record the process of soil building on each farm, and scientifically monitor the carbon levels in their soils each year. All carbon monitoring is verified by a third party. Our farmers put our hearts, minds, and hands into rapidly creating new topsoil. In turn we ask that environmentally awake, truly patriotic citizens support us by buying the food, fuel and fiber we produce, and by purchasing Carbon Sinks to offset their carbon emissions and support our work. It’s as simple as that. All profit realized by Carbon Farmers of America is re-invested into increasing the capacity of farmers to rapidly grow new topsoil and reverse global warming . In 2007 we will create a non-profit corporation, The Carbon Farmer Foundation to train, equip and make livestock loans to the brilliant, hard-working young people who will become the next generation of Carbon Farmers. The most critical issues of our times must all be understood as a whole. Topsoil loss in excess of topsoil creation, declining agricultural productivity, biodiversity loss and desertification, diminishing fresh water supplies, degradation of our oceans, climate change, increasing poverty and hunger, conflict and warfare for control of decreasing natural resources….the list goes on. The solution to all of these problems and more can be found in the way we make decisions, and in the impact of our decisions on the topsoil under our feet. Because of the visionary work of ecological pioneers like Sir Albert Howard, Louis Bromfield, Allan Savory and P.A. Yeomans a