Meet the Beetles
One of nature’s most important and overlooked carbon farmers is also an ancient symbol of regeneration and renewal: the scarab.
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An Interview with Agroecologist Jairo Restrepo
My mission now is to defend life. This is my purpose, my instinct, but also to protect the conditions that encourage perpetual and healthy life.
Another Reason for a Carbon Tax
How do we create a marketplace that will pay landowners and others to double the carbon content of their soil?
Coexistence: The Power of the Flerd
The power of carbon + coexistence struck me while visiting a farm in New South Wales, Australia, a few years ago.
“Farming with Native Beneficial Insects” Means Solving for Pattern
A necessary guide for anyone who farms, gardens, or who wants to learn more about ecology-based land management
Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: ‘Farming Like the Earth Matters’
It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grassfed, and regenerative.
Regenerative Agriculture: The Transition
In the face of peak oil and in order to curb carbon emissions, methods of farming that depend less on oil and natural gas, respectively to run machinery and to make synthetic fertilizers, must be sought.
Early days for regenerative agriculture: Can it help solve climate change?
A planned rotation of the cattle mimics movements that herds of ruminants would make in response to predation by pack hunters when such environments evolved as systemic wholes.
Finding Hope in an Era of Climate Chaos
So, can a book about soil and carbon give us … hope? In this Q&A, Courtney White, author of Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country, talks about the hope he found as he researched a wide variety of simple strategies that anyone can undertake to help create a more sustainable future.
Grass, Soil, Hope
“Grass, Soil, Hope is at the same time a challenging book, in that it asks us to reconsider our pessimism about the human engagement with the rest of nature.
Edible Ecosystems
Here are condensed versions of two profiles in my upcoming book Grass, Soil, Hope that feature the regenerative practices at the nexus between food and nature.
Feeding the world
Regenerative practices can feed the world, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
