#3 - Oil Well In Reverse: Closing the Carbon Cycle Using the Carbon Cycle- - Drop-In w/ Russ Conser
PUBLISHED 11 September 2025
Source: The Peter Byck Show
In our third drop-in for The Peter Byck Show, Peter and Russ Conser discuss Russ’s epiphany around soil health after meeting Peter over a decade ago.
As Russ said then, AMP grazing is like an oil well in reverse. Instead of extracting and burning carbon, regenerative grazers draw down carbon and incorporate it into the soil system. As Russ says “putting it back to work, investing it in the business of life.”
After a long career in the oil and gas industry searching for carbon-rich “source rocks” that indicated rich deposits, Russ immediately saw the correlation between those ancient deposits and the carbon-rich soil of AMP grazers.
As Russ says, “this is the way nature works!”
You can learn more about Russ and the rest of the Roots So Deep science team on our website! https://rootssodeep.org/amp-research/science-team
"When you stand on healthy soil, there's a universe beneath your feet."