Regenerative Agriculture

Allowing Biology to Operate: Exploring Wetland Farming Systems with Arca Tierra

By Kendra Morrison   On the outskirts of Mexico City, the chinampa system operated by Arca Tierra offers a working example of a fully integrated biological production system in practice. Built within a wetland landscape, the farm is rooted in a system where water, soil, and organic matter function together as a continuous cycle of […]

What Would the World Look Like Without Bees?

By Titanilla Kiss Article originally published at https://substack.com/@beewitchingembassy    Humans would not starve if bees disappeared. But the world would taste very different. That opening might surprise you. We have all heard the famous claim, often attributed to Einstein (he almost certainly never said it), that humanity would have four years left if bees vanished. […]

The New Money in Regenerative Agriculture: What Smallholder Farmers Need to Know About Natural Asset Investment

By Hugh Locke During Climate Week NYC this past September, amid discussions about regenerative agriculture, there was an unmistakable signal that money was beginning to move. Not traditional agricultural lending, but something fundamentally different. Financial institutions were talking about natural capital funds. Investment managers were describing ecosystem services as tradeable assets. Pension funds were allocating […]

Indiana produce farm turns to AI-based robots to eliminate weeds

Sunrise Produce partners with Greenfield Robotics to eliminate herbicides, touts “Robot-Weeded” produce at Whole Foods stores There’s a new, unique label on sweet corn sold at some Whole Foods stores. The label reads “Robot-Weeded,” and the sweet corn was grown by Sunrise Produce, Inc. The Indiana family farm used artificial intelligence-based robotic weeders instead of […]

Soil & Climate Initiative teams with Seven Sundays to advance regenerative agriculture

Nonprofit SCI and non-GMO cereal company’s expanded partnership supports farmers and regenerative land movement There’s a new win-win for farmers and the regenerative agriculture movement: The nonprofit Soil & Climate Initiative (SCI) and non-GMO cereal company Seven Sundays are expanding their partnership to support more farmers as they adopt regenerative practices. A project of nonprofit […]