Understanding Regenerative Farming
Learn about the methods our farmers use to grow food that's good for you, the soil, and the planet.
Agroforestry
What is Agroforestry?
Agroforestry integrates trees and shrubs with crops and sometimes livestock, creating layered systems that protect soil, provide habitat, and diversify farm income.
Benefits
Improves wind protection and microclimate, increases biodiversity, builds soil organic matter, and can produce timber, fruit, or fodder alongside annual crops.
Biodynamic
What is Biodynamic?
Biodynamic farming views the farm as a living organism, using lunar cycles, specially prepared composts, and holistic practices to create a self-sustaining agricultural ecosystem.
Benefits
Enhances soil vitality, increases biodiversity, connects farming to natural rhythms, and produces nutrient-dense food through closed-loop systems.
Companion Cropping
What is Companion Cropping?
Companion cropping grows mutually beneficial plants together to improve nutrient use, suppress weeds, support pollinators, and reduce pest pressure without synthetic inputs.
Benefits
Raises polyculture resilience, can reduce fertilizer and pesticide needs, and improves root diversity and soil biology in the field.
Cover Crops
What is Cover Crops?
Cover crops are planted to protect and feed soil between cash crops, keeping living roots in the ground and covering bare soil over winter or fallow periods.
Benefits
Reduces erosion, suppresses weeds, fixes nitrogen where legumes are used, and adds organic matter that feeds soil microbes.
Diverse Leys
What is Diverse Leys?
Diverse leys use multi-species grass and herb mixtures in rotations or pasture, building soil structure and fertility through varied root types and flowering plants.
Benefits
Improves soil structure, supports pollinators and soil life, and can break disease cycles when included in arable rotations.
Heritage Varieties
What is Heritage Varieties?
Heritage varieties are traditional plant cultivars passed down through generations, selected for flavor, resilience, and adaptation to local conditions rather than commercial uniformity or shelf life.
Benefits
Preserves genetic diversity, often more nutritious and flavorful than modern hybrids, supports seed sovereignty, and connects us to agricultural history.
Min-Till
What is Min-Till?
Min-till reduces soil disturbance compared with conventional ploughing, limiting passes and depth of cultivation to preserve structure while still preparing seedbeds.
Benefits
Cuts fuel use and erosion risk compared with full inversion tillage, while retaining more residue cover and microbial habitat than intensive tillage.
No Dig
What is No Dig?
No-dig growing avoids turning the soil, instead adding organic matter on the surface and planting into undisturbed ground so fungal networks and soil structure stay intact.
Benefits
Preserves soil biology and structure, reduces weed seed germination from deep burial, lowers labour and fuel use, and builds fertile topsoil over time.
No-Till
What is No-Till?
No-till farming minimizes soil disturbance by avoiding plowing or tilling, leaving crop residue on the surface to protect and feed the soil ecosystem.
Benefits
Prevents erosion, sequesters carbon in soil, preserves soil structure and microbial life, reduces fuel use, and improves water retention.
Organic
What is Organic?
Organic farming eschews synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, relying instead on natural processes, crop rotation, compost, and biological pest control to maintain soil health and ecosystem balance.
Benefits
Reduces chemical runoff into waterways, supports beneficial insect populations, improves soil organic matter, and produces food free from synthetic residues.
Pasture-Fed
What is Pasture-Fed?
Pasture-fed livestock are raised on open grassland, moving regularly to allow vegetation recovery, mimicking natural grazing patterns that build soil and ecosystem health.
Benefits
Sequesters carbon in grasslands, improves soil structure, reduces methane per animal, produces more nutritious meat and dairy, and supports grassland biodiversity.
Permaculture
What is Permaculture?
Permaculture designs agricultural systems that mimic natural ecosystems, emphasizing perennial crops, polycultures, and closed nutrient loops to create resilient, self-maintaining food production.
Benefits
Reduces external inputs, creates wildlife habitat, builds soil health over time, maximizes space efficiency, and produces diverse yields year-round.
Pesticide-Free
What is Pesticide-Free?
Pesticide-free farming relies on biological controls, companion planting, crop diversity, and physical barriers to manage pests without chemical interventions.
Benefits
Protects pollinators and beneficial insects, prevents chemical accumulation in soil and water, produces cleaner food, and supports natural pest-predator balance.
Regenerative
What is Regenerative?
Regenerative agriculture goes beyond sustainability to actively improve and restore degraded land through practices like cover cropping, composting, and biodiversity integration.
Benefits
Reverses soil degradation, sequesters atmospheric carbon, increases water infiltration, builds resilience to climate extremes, and improves ecosystem health.
Silvopasture
What is Silvopasture?
Silvopasture combines trees with managed grazing, giving livestock shade and forage while trees benefit from nutrient cycling and reduced heat stress in the system.
Benefits
Increases carbon storage, diversifies farm outputs, improves animal welfare, and can enhance soil stability on sloping land.
Strip-Till
What is Strip-Till?
Strip-till cultivates narrow bands where seed is planted while leaving inter-row soil and residue largely undisturbed, balancing seedbed preparation with soil cover.
Benefits
Reduces erosion and moisture loss versus full-width tillage, lowers fuel use, and keeps more of the field under living or residue cover.