Regenerative Farming
Regenerative Agriculture is a method of grazing and farming which aims to reverse climate change by restoring our degraded soils and by rebuilding soil organic matter. This improves the water cycle and carbon drawdown.
Why It’s Important
According to the FAO, we have only 60 global harvests left and within this generation we may have 9 billion mouths to feed.
The world is losing its fertile soil and biodiversity, if the current rate of soil destruction continues it will hold a serious threat to our survival. We are already experiencing several modern health issues as a result of degraded food. The nutrients in our food have diminished and we no longer have enough arable topsoil to feed ourselves. If we don’t start regenerating our soil then it will become impossible to feed our global population whilst keeping global warming at bay and pausing our destruction of biodiversity.
How We Implement Regenerative Methods
We work closely with independent family farms to implement regenerative agriculture practices to regenerate topsoil and increase biodiversity now and long into the future. We can help farmers reduce input costs and increase their productivity.
Some of the practices of regenerative agriculture we use include:
- Building soil fertility
- Having a holistic approach rather than a reductionist view.
- Improving ecosystem processes including the water cycle, mineral cycle, community dynamics and energy flow.
- Connect the farm to its larger agro-ecosystem and bio-region.
- Create context-specific designs and make holistic decisions that consider the social, ecological and the economic.
- Make holistic decisions aimed at specific systems change and addressing the root cause of the problem rather than fixing symptoms.
- Continually evolve agro-ecological processes and cultures.
- Properly Managed Livestock grazing (mob, holistic planned grazing, rotational grazing, rational grazing.)
- Keyline subsoiling.
- No-till cropping.
- Multi species cover crops.
- Pasture cropping/minimal tillage.
Meet The Farms:
Try Our Meat From Regenerative Soils
