Environmental Impact

Regenerative Farming Practices benefit soil health & environmental health

The sustainable agricultural practices which improve soil health and productivity for farming provide multiple ecological and environmental benefits while supporting increased production.

Practices & Benefits

• Vegetative Buffers

  • Provide native plant habitat, restoring pollinator and wildlife habitat.

  • Retain sediments, preventing erosion of healthy and rich top soils, and protecting downstream habitats from over sedimentation.

  • Provide natural water filtration, retaining nutrients in plant growth while protecting watersheds from eutrophication

• Fish Hydrolysate

  • Cold processed fish and seaweed hydrolysate provides abundant phosphorus and potassium, micronutrients, carbohydrates, and lipids essential for verdant plant growth

  • Protein hydrolysate fertilizers provide highly plant available nitrogen in the “amino nitrogen” form

• Biochar

  • Effective in retaining water and nutrients in the rhizosphere where it is available to plants, improving soil tilth, and supporting microbial and fungal communities.

  • Biochar does not easily decay, and sequesters organic carbon while benefiting soil fertility.

  • Where biochar has been applied, soils show higher water-holding capacity, improved water retention, increased plant-available water, increased plant resilience in drought conditions, and greater crop productivity per unit of water.

  • NRCS has recognized the importance of biochar as an effective tool for farmers and land managers and has developed NRCS Conservation Practice 384: Woody Residue Treatment and Conservation Enhancement Activity “E384135Z Production of Biochar from Woody Biomass” in order to encourage the adoption of this valuable technology.

• BEAM (Biologically Enhanced Agriculture Management) Compost

  • BEAM compost practices support thriving natural fungal communities.

  • Carbon sequestration increases by orders of magnitude.

  • Crop outputs are substantially increased.

These practices simultaneously generate economic and agricultural value. These agricultural conservation practices are sustainable in the long term.