Regenerative Farming
Regenerative agriculture is all about “holistic land management,” meaning farmers employ techniques that give back to the land rather than take away. Practices are focused on building up high-quality soil, retaining rainwater, improving the water cycle, increasing biodiversity, and promoting both human and animal welfare.
What is Regenerative Farming?
It's our future.
How can regenerative farming help farmers?
Many farmers, including our team, are committed to improving the health of their soils, but we are simultaneously trapped in a commodity flywheel, in which all producers seek to generate value by commodifying their inputs and differentiating their outputs. We want to buy cheap and sell high. We can’t do that, however, because we sell on markets that reward lowest cost production and depend upon expensive inputs from suppliers of technology, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides.
This is a central dilemma: Farmers make rational decisions to pursue productivity and efficiencies because those are the only ways they have succeeded over the past few generations, and the entire commercial food system reinforces this decision making process. Regenerative agriculture offers a way out of this dilemma. In such systems, crop diversity enriches the soil and improves the productivity and long-term usability of the soil over time.