Failures, Learned Wisdom, and Becoming a Better Grower
What Is Regenerative Gardening?
5 Cool Ways You Can Practice Regenerative Agriculture At Home
With so many negative headlines and extreme weather events these days, it’s easy to feel anxious about climate change. But we can all lend Mother Nature a helping hand through regenerative gardening practices! Whether tending to a large backyard garden or just a few containers on a balcony, you can incorporate various techniques into your […]
Water, Light, And Controlled Environmental Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture The Solution To Reconnecting With Nature And Ourselves
The way we treat the soil reflects the way we treat ourselves, and the way we treat ourselves is the way we treat the world. Unfortunately, these critical truths are generally absent from the actions of modern civilization. Collectively, we have abandoned our agricultural identity and our accountability for how we engage with the natural […]
Harnessing Nature Through Regenerative Agriculture
Hack an aspen tree down to its stump, and within weeks, it will regenerate new limbs. But strip away the soil beneath it, and it could take thousands of years before it can support that same tree. Nature paints a portrait of resilience. Regenerative Agriculture focuses on building soils that can continuously support crops season […]
Taking the Nature Out of Agriculture and the Impact on Human and Environmental Health
The world’s people have become almost completely disconnected from what sustains us – community, food, water, even Mother Nature herself. We have become corporatized and conditioned to a level of normal that is undermining us at every turn. We have unleashed synthetic systems on Earth that are not designed to reinforce environmental and human health, […]
Incredible Farm: A Model for the Future of Adaptive, Regenerative Farming
It’s a dry spring day at Incredible Farm, a mixed 5-hectare smallholding tucked away in the West Yorkshire hills. The landscape is mostly clay soil and tough grasses, a lumpy, hummocky land that feels exposed. Sheep graze on the hillside – it’s what this property is mostly used for. Few people are brave enough to […]
Homestead 1839: A Farm With History Grows With The Past, Present, and Future In Mind
In West Burlington, Iowa, a farm called Homestead 1839 stands out from all the other fields. It has broken away from the monocultures growing across the state, focusing instead on regenerative agriculture and producing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables for the community to enjoy. By connecting with the land and our past, Homestead 1839 […]
Data-Driven Farming: The Past, Present, and Future
What do you think of when you hear the word “technology”? I usually think of computers, robots, and electronics, but that’s because I was raised in a digital era. Despite this common misnomer, the definition of technology is “The application of scientific knowledge to change and manipulate the human environment.” The application of scientific knowledge […]
Revolution is a Dirty Business: Two Women’s Journey Reshaping AgriCULTURE
While conventional agriculture turns to fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to help with crops, regenerative growing takes a different approach. The health of our plants depends on the health of our soil and environment, a link missing in farm fields, gardens, and greenhouses for far too long. We all play a role in solving the climate […]
Could Regenerative Agriculture Be the Answer to Climate Change?
The world’s farming industry and food system are no longer fit for purpose. Farming is directly responsible for nearly 30% of all greenhouse emissions, and industrial agriculture is eroding soil at a rate of 24 billion tonnes a year. Modern agricultural practices are also contributing to wildlife and insect extinction. Around 40% of global insect […]
A Gardener’s Journey to Self-Sufficiency, Health, and Happiness
About six years ago, Liz Zorab knew that something wasn’t right. She had gained weight, her hearing and vision were suffering, and her hair was falling out. Her health was rapidly deteriorating; she had no energy and spent 23 hours a day in bed. A trip to the doctor confirmed severe thyroid and mineral deficiencies, […]
Cultivating Hope Through Regenerative Organic Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is a big topic of discussion in growing communities worldwide, but do we know what it means? When we think agriculture, we often picture large fields of crops, tractors, pesticides and fertilisers. However, the word regenerative bears a hopeful image of flourishing nature, harmoniously uniting all the elements of the plant, animal and human […]
Making Urban Agriculture More Accessible With Table Gardens
In North America, about 85% of people live in urban areas. Since many of them are in condos or apartments without any land access, they have to be creative when growing plants and vegetables. Urban gardeners often have to grow in pots and containers, on walls, roofs and sometimes even on tables! Table Gardening A […]
Helping Farmers Make an Essential Transition
The story of agriculture maps human history. From the original farmers that planted the seeds of human specialization and culture to the signing of the Homestead Act by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that granted cheap plots of land to create a new population of family farmers, most of our history has been agricultural. Farming has […]
How To Grow A Healthy Society
Society is heavily influenced by narrative and incentive. The stories that we tell can be a means of turning our values into action, or they can be used against us in the name of profit over people. Awareness of this phenomenon is the best antidote. The power of narrative – or the story that we […]
Sustainable Desert Growing
In a coastal area, you can grow tons of food year around without using a drop of fresh water, and get 80% of your energy from the sun. You can grow lots of crops with ocean water if you go about it right, and do so with less input capital than traditional business plans for […]