What is regenerative agriculture?
A shift in thinking
A new approach to future-proofing your farm
Regenerative farming isn't any one thing or technique. It is a paradigm shift in how we use our land to provide health and prosperity to communities.
Sustainable
self-reliance
She knows better
Regenerative farming has the potential to reduce or remove reliance on inputs from outside the operation. It all depends on what your goals are.
A contribution to
climate action
Doing your part
Healthy soil helps fix broken water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles which helps mitigate difficult weather, natural disasters, and the increasing call for global climate action.
Decrease reliance on costly inputs
A healthy soil microbiome can manage its own nutrient demands, and pests become managed by the rejuvenatved ecosystem.
Reverse soil exhaustion
Topsoil erosion is directly linked with overstressed carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles. Managing organic matter correctly can build and preserve topsoil, retain water, and carbon which benefits the nutrient cycle.
Nutrient content is key
Not only does soil health affect nutrition content, it improves the ability to store and transport product
The future must recognize the past
In modern agroecology we recognize that indigenous peoples have regionally adapted practices refined over thousands of years, and for important reasons. We seek to learn and incorporate that wisdom back into mainstream practice.
Meet the Soil Nerd
Paul Zwarts comes from a technology background and for more than two decades providing strategic consultations for large global brands on five continents. He is now focusing that experience on the quality of food systems and education.
Soil Nerd is a member of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO)
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Public discussion forum
Soil Nerd is hosting a public access discussion forum for Regenerative Agriculture using the open-source software Mattermost. We are hosting this platform for free to encourage all those interested in the subject to join and be a part of the discussion.
Since there is no currently accepted definition of regen-ag, why don't we talk about it and learn and teach in turn based on all our unique experiences and requirements.
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