Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative Organic Certification: the “going beyond organic” label gains traction

There’s a buzz around regenerative organic agriculture, says Elizabeth Whitlow, executive director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance (ROA). Farmers, scientists, big food companies, and even the U.S. government are paying keen attention to soil—its health, its availability, and its huge potential to repair a “broken” agricultural system and help alleviate the dire impacts of global […]

Regenerative agriculture increases yields, restores biodiversity in Mexico

by Dimitri Selibas Chiapas is Mexico’s second-most biodiverse state and provides 30% of the country’s freshwater, but has lost 55% of its forests for farmland and livestock pasture. Now, an unlikely alliance of conservationists, farmers and cattle ranchers is working to incorporate 2.5 million hectares (6.2 million acres) of land into sustainable management schemes, focusing on […]

Snacktivist works “from scratch” to build supply chains for ancient grains

In Idaho, Snacktivist Foods is trying to build regenerative supply chains of ancient grains like teff, millet, and sorghum for its to baking mixes. Co-founder and CEO Joni Kindwall-Moore is working with Martin Goter, an organic and biodynamic farmer in North Dakota, to source millet. Goter’s farm checks all the certification boxes: organic, biodynamic, Real […]

Initiative aims to encourage plant-based food companies to source directly from U.S. farmers

Plant Based Foods Institute’s Domestic Sourcing Initiative wants to create more markets for U.S. farmers, build more resilient and regenerative supply chains for plant-based foods The one grocery store in tiny (population 788) Latimer, Iowa prominently displays Oatly oatmilk and creamer products. That’s because the store owners, Anne and Landon Plagge, who are also farmers, […]

Sorghum: Ancient grain—timely solution

Nutrient-packed, non-GMO sorghum addresses water, carbon, soil heath, and economic challenges Why is a grain that’s 8,000 years old causing a positive stir in the High Plains of the central United States? Why is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world, until recently unknown in America as a food source, being featured as the […]