Soil health is essential for growing healthy fruits vegetables and flowers it's also key in mitigating climate change here at Jennie Love's Love 'n Fresh flower farm in Northwest Philadelphia there are a lot of nos no tilling no fertilizer no pesticides no mowing we're focused on healing the ecosystem and supporting habitat as much as we are on producing a crop we're gonna learn about what you can do to combat climate change and it starts with the soil and some native plants this is a native plant so it's native to our region this is called baptisia or false indigo is its common name little native bumblebees love love love this plant these plants have evolved over millenia with the native soil microbes and all the different life that is in the soil these native plants know how to support our local biome they're hardier generally speaking they don't have as many pests and diseases so the native plants tend to be more resilient my hope is seeing this space that when I first took stewardship of it was fairly lifeless not a lot going for it and now after a decade plus of really nuturing it it is humming with life so if every single person who has even just a small part of land did the same things at home we could have such an impact even if you grow plants in pots that is helping with climate change somehow so talk to us about that any plant that is photosynthesizing they're taking sunlight they're creating their energy and they're putting their roots down into the soil that is sequestering carbon so the more plants we grow the more carbon that's sequestered climate change can seem overwhelming sometimes but even if you live in a rowhome with a cement backyard there are things you can do