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by brohee 2536 days ago
Obviously there was no soil at first since it's dead organic matter.
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Yes, but that’s not “reversing” so much as completely rebuilding soil, which takes decades of no farming and no tillage.

A lot of loss can also be trivially reduces by planting rows of trees between fields, which I saw all over the place in NZ, but haven’t seen elsewhere.

Pretty standard in Europe : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocage