Nature Knows How To Fix This

Industrial farmers are great at producing one thing - one type of plant or one stage of an animal's life. You need chemicals to be successful in a monocrop system: pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers. But that ends up killing the organisms that make soil a living thing. You're left with dry dirt that's stripped of nutrients, and food that doesn't taste as great as it used to.

Regenerative farmers are bringing biodiversity back to the barnyard - like rotating livestock, growing many different crops in rotation, and restoring the soil to the living microbiome it is. The resulting food is nutrient-rich, tastes incredible, and is more nourishing for your body.

It's not just organic. It's a way of life that restores the relationship between nature and agriculture.

These folks farm all day long, then drive hours to sell their goods at the farmer's market. It's a busy life, and we want to bring them more people who will support the way they're farming. And we want to connect you to the passionate and often eccentric people farming your food - you gotta be a little wacky to dive this deep into regenerative farming.

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It Starts with the Soil

Regenerative farming is about finding natural ways to restore stripped-down dirt. Instead of plowing, it’s about no-till methods to enhance the fungal network. Instead of chemical fertilizers, it’s companion cropping, crop rotation, and manure.

When the soil is restored, it’s teaming with microbes and bugs. Roots are deep and interconnected with mycelium. Vitamins and minerals are easily absorbed by crops. That’s when food starts tasting good again and really nourishes your body. Healthy soil is the basis for everything.

Do Not Disturb the Soil

We’re just learning about the fungal network, and how mycelium allows plants to communicate and share resources. That’s one of the reasons that regenerative farmers don’t plow: it breaks apart the networks plants rely on. Plowing also exposes earthworms to predators and disrupts insect life. Roots are flipped, which dries out the land.

Regenerative farmers do not disrupt the soil with chemicals, like pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and chemical-based fertilizers. Killing off one thing usually causes another problem to arise. Instead, farmers work with beneficial insects, companion cropping, and natural fertilizers.
It’s not some utopia where everything balances out for the farmer – sometimes crops. But through trial and error, we play the long game to rejuvenate the soil.

Year Round Roots

Have you noticed that plants will grow in the craziest places? Give them a crack in the sidewalk and they’ll cling to life. Bare fields are a magnet for any old seed to lay down roots. But if there are plants intentionally nurtured year-round, there’s no place for unwanted plants to thrive (so no need for herbicides).

Companion crops and cover crops have the unique ability to work for you. They can fix nitrogen into the soil, block out invasive plants, attract pollinators and beneficial insects, and hold moisture in the land to share with crops. Regenerative farms can look a little overgrown, but the plants are intentional.

Maximize Diversity

Nature doesn’t do monocrops, and animals don’t live in isolation. Regenerative farming is all about pairing animals with plants, creating cycles of farming that benefit everything. The farm produces a diversity of livestock and plants that are interdependent on each other.

Chickens eat invasive bugs in the hazelnut orchard, then poop out fertilizer for the trees. Herbs attract ladybugs, who then eat the aphids. Cows graze in biodiverse pastures, then fertilize the ground and attract dung beetles, who then aerate the soil.

It’s a cycle and a web that keeps on building connections between agriculture and nature, benefitting plants, livestock, and the wider ecosystem.

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