Partha Dasgupta basically walks into the room, looks at humanity’s accounting books, and goes: “Erm… you know you’re running an ecological deficit, right?” And not like a cute little “we’ll tighten the belt next quarter” deficit. We’re talking about 70% overshoot. As in: we’re demanding roughly 70% more from nature than Earth can regenerate. Seventy percent. That’s not “slightly inefficient”. That’s overdrawn, mate. If this were a business, auditors wouldn’t be asking polite questions. They’d be unplugging the printer and escorting us out. And the wild part? We keep “measuring” nature with spreadsheets and good intentions… then act surprised when the maths doesn’t change. Dasgupta’s whole point is: if nature is the asset base, we’ve been treating it like it’s free, infinite, and somebody else’s problem. What we’ve been missing is a Nature Ledger: something immutable, verifiable, and live. A system that can prove real stewardship, reward the people doing the work, and diversify balance sheets with utility, not greenwashing. That’s why GROW exists. Because if we’re serious about fixing the overshoot, we need to stop debating nature like it’s a vibe and start accounting for it like it’s our future. Three questions I’d love to hear from you all on: 1. If we’re truly 70% overdrawn, what are you doing today that you’d never allow in your own bank account? 2. If nature had a ledger that showed your footprint in real time, would you still be living the same way, or would you finally change the budget? 3. If your stewardship could be packaged as a tokenised RWA that buyers and lenders can verify instantly, would you use it to unlock cheaper capital, new markets, or a second income stream — and which one matters most right now?

What are you actually doing this season, in your own bioregion, to help your soils thrive? Because if the soil’s tired, the farm’s tired. And if the farm’s tired… well, so is your bank account. @Australia You’re farming in a place where the sun shows no mercy and the soils have seen everything from boom to bust. So what’s the move this season? - More cover crops instead of bare baked paddocks? - Resting country instead of flogging it? - Keeping ground cover on so your topsoil doesn’t just pack its bags and leave with the next windstorm? What are you changing on your place to build carbon, hold more water, and leave the paddock a bit better than you found it? @NorthAmerica You’ve got everything from frozen prairies to 40°C dust bowls, sometimes in the same year. So what’s the plan on your operation? - Cutting back on heavy tillage and letting structure rebuild? - Using diverse rotations or grazing plans instead of “corn–corn–pray”? - Getting more biology into the system with manure, compost, or living roots in the ground longer? On your farm, in your bioregion, this season:👉 What’s one concrete thing you’re doing to help your soils come back stronger, not weaker?

There’s nothing quite like pulling a legume out of the ground and seeing it absolutely covered in nodules. 🌱 It’s like nature’s little audit trail. Quiet, unflashy, but doing the real work. Those small bumps on the roots are where rhizobia bacteria move in and set up shop. Here’s the clever part. Inside each nodule, the bacteria take nitrogen out of thin air, literally atmospheric nitrogen, and convert it into ammonia, a form the plant can actually use. In return, the legume feeds them energy from photosynthesis. No invoices, no middlemen, just a clean trade. So the legume is not draining your soil’s nitrogen like, “Cheers mate, I’ll be taking that.” It’s more like, “Relax, I brought my own nitrogen crew.” That’s why legumes are such a weapon in a cover crop mix. They can grow without pulling down your nitrogen bank account. When the cover crop breaks down, that fixed nitrogen becomes available for whatever you plant next. Now let’s talk nodules like we’re talking blockchain. A healthy nodule is like a verified block. You crack it open and it’s pink or reddish inside. That is proof the system is live, the transaction is real, nitrogen fixation is happening. If it’s white or green, it looks fine on the outside, but the process is not actually running. And our Grow Smart Nodes do not lie either. Nodules are like Grow Smart Nodes. They sit quietly in the system, doing the work, validating the flow, creating value without extracting it from somewhere else. You do not have to trust the story. You can check the roots. So if you want to know whether the system is working, don’t guess. Pull a plant. Check the roots. Slice a few nodules. Because nodules, and Grow Smart Nodes, do not lie.