The Park City Council Considers Using Animals To Reach Their Netzero Goals
The Park City Council has some big goals to eliminate the city’s carbon footprint. Staff’s latest find includes putting cows and horses out to pasture.
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Brazilian Food Forests Take Root in Australia, Helping Growers Save Water and Control Pests
Move over biodynamic and organic farming — there is a new farming technique on the block, in which fruit and vegetable crops are grown in conjunction with trees. Known as syntropic farming, it is a regenerative agricultural cropping method developed in Brazil that aims to mimic the way forest plants work symbiotically to grow in abundance.
6 Ways We’re Letting Our Soil Die – and How We Can Save It
We are all reliant on soil for our breakfast cereals, our milk, our beef…and much more. Are farmers treating soil with the respect it deserves, though? Here are six soil concerns – and some solutions.
To Feed the World Sustainably, Repair the Soil
It is critical that we make simple changes in conventional farming practices. This offers opportunities to advance humanity’s most neglected natural infrastructure project—returning health to the soil that grows our food.
An Open Goal: Why Forests and Nature Need to Be at the Center of the Sustainable Development Agenda
We cannot achieve the 2030 Agenda if we don’t act now to halt deforestation and conserve and restore forests and biodiversity. One promising approach is forest landscape restoration – bringing deforested and degraded landscapes back to health by restoring the functions that forests provide to people and nature.
How This Soap Company Is Changing the World
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps company (known as Dr. Bronner’s) is doing more than producing natural soaps. The company is also supporting the regenerative agriculture movement worldwide.
The Future of Agriculture with Del Ficke and Graham Christensen
Del Ficke and Graham Christensen join me today to discuss the practice of Regenerative Agriculture and what they have done to implement it in their farms. They share how they learned about regenerative practices and their success stories and explain why this type of practice is based on what’s already been done before, but long forgotten due to mass production. They also share examples of how regenerative ag can benefit farmers financially.
Regenerative Farms Yield Soil Health and Higher Profits than Chemical-Intensive Operations
Ecologically-based farming systems contain far fewer pests and generate much higher profits than their conventional, chemical-based counterparts according to research published in the journal PeerJ earlier this year by scientists at South Dakota State University and the Ecdysis Foundation. The study supports calls to reshape the future of agriculture, as ‘regenerative’ farms, which avoid tillage and bare soil, integrate livestock, and foster on-farm diversity.
Regenerative Agriculture: Merging Farming and Natural Resource Conservation Profitably
This report evaluates the relative effects of regenerative and conventional corn production systems on pest management services, soil conservation, and farmer profitability and productivity throughout the Northern Plains of the United States. Regenerative farming systems provided greater ecosystem services and profitability for farmers than an input-intensive model of corn production.
‘Soil My Undies’ Challenge Has Farmers Burying Underwear In Their Fields
Started by the Farmers Guild in California, the Soil Your Undies Challenge is a test designed to show the power and importance of healthy soil. The Challenge is easy: Simply bury a pair of 100 percent cotton underwear—generally white briefs have been the garment of choice—in your farm, garden, or pasture. Two months later, dig them up and inspect and document the changes.