Regenerative agriculture

A short definition

Regenerative agriculture is a set of farming practices that works with nature, rather than against it. Core practices include moving towards eventually eliminating synthetic inputs, minimizing tillage, accelerating crop rotation, increasing crop diversity, implementing landscape elements such as flower field margins, keeping the soil covered all year long by growing cover crops in-between cash crops, and integrating grazing animals. These practices, among other benefits, rebuild soil organic matter and restore biodiversity – resulting in both carbon drawdown and improving the water cycle.

These practices have a direct positive impact on the water retention and carbon sequestration capacity of soil, biodiversity levels and food’s nutrient density… We have observed this on our own farm when implementing biodiversity lanes and flower field edges: more bees, more birds, more butterflies, which means healthier soil!.

Regenerative practices harness what nature offers and have been proven not only to increase soil health but also farmers’ yields and profit.

The effects of regenerative agriculture

Increases

Decreases

Scientific and applied research

Regenerative agriculture draws from decades of scientific and applied research by the global communities of organic farming, agroecology, holistic management, and agroforestry.

Get in contact!

Do you want to help us change the world through agriculture?

Cookie Policy
Soil Heroes Foundation logo

This website uses cookies so that we can offer you the best possible user experience. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website. Cookies also help our team understand which parts of the website you find most interesting and useful. Cookies have an expiration period depending on whether they are session cookies or permanent cookies. Session cookies contain information that is used within your current browser session. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Permanent cookies are used to store information between different visits to the website. This data enables the website to recognize you as a returning visitor and thereby respond accordingly, for example by saving your language preferences. The permanent cookies have a longer lifespan that is determined by the website.

By disabling cookies, certain parts of the website may not work optimally and certain functionalities and services may not be used. Here you can set which cookies you want to enable or not.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

Statistics

This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.
Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.