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   Here at the Waitrose Farm on Leicestershire, the story is about how we farm the land and how that land can recover.

   在莱斯特郡的维特罗斯农场，我们讲述的是如何耕种土地，以及土地如何恢复生机。

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   We're still losing the UK somewhere between two and three million tons of topsoil a year, but it can take, depending on the soil type, four hundred to a thousand years to build a centimetre of soil.

   英国每年仍流失两到三百万吨表土，但根据土壤类型不同，形成一厘米的土壤可能需要四百年到一千年。

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   So we've got to look after this precious asset.

   所以我们必须保护好这一宝贵的资产。

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   When I go to the shops, I try to look for crops that are grown in the UK, where I live.

   我去商店时，会尽量寻找在我居住的英国本土种植的农作物。

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   When we care for the land, the land can care for us.

   当我们爱护土地时，土地也能回馈我们。

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