Regenerative AG (Spencer Mottley)

   If you are in the know when it comes to trends you have probloy herd of the word regenrative 

agriculture at least once by now, but what is regenrative agriculture anyway? And why has it become all

the rage in many farming and homesteading circles online? To answer these questions regenrative

agriculture is a model of farming that seeks to radically transform our current industral food production

system by utilizing nature based soultions in farming as opossed to the widespread convental methods of

farming that often come at the cost of the enviroment, human health and animal welfare. Some popular

nature based soultions that are often utlized by regenrative farmers and homesteaders is no till planting,

rotational grazeing, minamal/no spray farming, the use of cover crops, and runing polturey such as

domesticated ducks and guneia fowl through crop fields to eat determental pest such as slugs and japanse

beetles. The implication of nature based soultions like these come with many benfits for the enviroment,

human health and animal welfare. Some enviromental benfits include increased soil health, increased

carbon sequestration in the soil and improved habatat for many species of plants and animals. Some

human health benfits are increased nutrient density in regenratively grown and rasied food and reduced

pesticide resuadue on these foods. Along with these benfits animal welfare is also greatly improved under

this model of farming due to the fact that livestock are rasied in enviroments that are non-stressful,

sanatary, enriching and that provide them with nutritional forage to graze on. This disscusion on

regenrative agriculture left me with a question how can the average person apply nature based soultions

(simalir to the ones used in Regenrative AG) into their yard and garden care? Some nature based soultions

that could be applyed to yard and garden care is makeing your own compost to fertile your garden with

instead of buying commerical poting mix, feeding your lawn cliping back to your yard instead of useing

lawn fertilizer and by planting native plant species like wildflowers or paw-paw fruit trees to increase

biodiversity in your yard.


                           (A flock of sheep in a rotational grazeing system)

What is Rotational Grazing and what is Adaptive multi-paddock grazing ? | Wikifarmer

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