Regenerative growing

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Soil health, growing, rewilding and regeneration of the earth

Regenerative agriculture and regenerative ways of growing focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing the ecosystem, supporting biosequestration and increasing resilience to climate change.

Many scientists and practitioners believe it to be the single most important key to tackling irreversible climate change.

Soil scientist Rattan Lal estimates that if we improved the carbon content of the earth’s soil by just 2%, we could offset 100% of current greenhouse gas emissions.

Websites

• Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming

• Real Food Campaign

• Land Workers Alliance 

• Nature Friendly Farming Network 

• Kiss the Ground

• The Soil Association’s Ten Years for Agroecology in Europe report

• Rewild My Street

• Farmer’s Footprint

Other Resources

• Permaculture magazine

• What is regenerative agriculture and agroecology? by Holly Rose

• The benefits of regenerative agriculture and aquaculture by Holly Rose

• A list of regenerative agriculture farms in the UK by Holly Rose

• Kiss the Ground’s short videos on soil and growing

• Kiss the Ground’s feature-length film, now available on Netflix

• The Man who Planted Trees film & book

• RHS’ Gardening Matters – Urban Gardens

Books

• Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World, Perrine Herve-Gruyer, Charles Herve-Gruyer 

• Rewild Yourself, Simon Barnes

• Ferral, George Monbiot

• Wilding – the return of nature to a British farm, Isabella Tree

• The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane

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