WHAT IS REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE?

Regenerative Agriculture is a method of growing food that puts more resources back into the ecosystem than it takes out. Almost all common farming methods are extractive - yes, even your local organic veggie farm! They buy in fertility, grow crops, then strip all plant matter out, leaving the land denuded and depleted. The industrial model is worse: manure lagoons, chemical pesticides, slaughter houses, create waste streams nature cannot metabolize, the results are devastating on a massive scale: top soil destroyed, water poisoned, and a health crisis of chronic disease that tops all developed countries.

Regenerative practices work with nature’s cycles, taking manure off the concrete slab and putting it back in the pasture. Animals are rotated, distributing dung in the right proportion, which explodes soil fertility. The result is bigger, greener, richer forage, that the animals love! As the soil gets healthier, the animals get healthier and as the animals get healthier, the humans get healthier and as more animals are supported the business gets healthier: with every unit produced the entire system improves. This is the promise of Regenerative Agriculture. Working with nature’s virtuous cycles is a win, win, win.

We should demand nothing less of the food we consume. Visit your local farm and see if their practices are Regenerative. If so, buy all your food from them and never look back. Our world needs your resolve.