FARM ECOSYSTEM & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Restoring Ecosystem Health

Nothing really matters if we don't improve ecosystem health including topsoil quality, biodiversity, watershed quality, and carbon sequestration. We can do this while impacting human health, farm communities, regional economies. The farms we work with are proving it every day.

Addressing Environmental Problems

Farms across the midwest lose between 1 and 15 tons of topsoil per acre per year. Watersheds are polluted with chemicals. Biodiversity of all kinds is decreasing. During the Spring when tilling occurs, clouds of carbon are released into the atmosphere. These hurt people and communities now and are not sustainable.

Overcoming Resistance to Change

Tradition. Ideology. Politics. Cycles of Debt. New learning required. Bureaucracy. Time. Energy. All of these are roadblocks to conventional farmers switching to regenerative practices. What does work? Relationships. Support. Showing the change to farms' bottom line, and the hope that their children will want to continue on the land they love.

Increasing Biodiversity

A key to soil health is plant health, and how it supports the many organisms below and above ground that thrive on roots, stems, leaves, and decaying plant matter. It's a complex web of life that is very different from monocrop farming and the chemical pollutants that kill the life in soil and plants.

Improving Water Infiltration Rates

A 1% increase in Soil Organic Matter can store an additional 25,000 gallons of water per acre. The impact of that on crops during increasing heat waves and drought can be immediately obvious to farmers.

Increasing Soil Organic Matter

The enormous benefits of SOM increases on crop yields, milk, and meat production can not be overestimated. We help farmers rebuild their top soil, by looking at it, testing it, studying it. There's no better indicator of results.

Sequestering More Carbon

Carbon sequestration is an imprecise science and we do test our soils for it. But, we know that land being managed holistically and the other ecological outcomes we can verify are just as important indicators of our progress towards helping alleviate climate change, and putting carbon where it belongs.

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Our partners have decades of experience in farming, regenerative agriculture, and other fields that are moving the ecosystems we work in - in the right direction. Let us know what you are interested in and how we can help.

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