Regeneration International, an organization that promotes food, farming and land use systems that: Regenerate and stabilize climate systems, the health of the planet and people, communities, culture and local economies, democracy and peace.
Regeneration is far more than being sustainable. Sustainable is defined as keeping the present system stable without degrading or running it down. Regeneration improves the current systems. Do we want to sustain the current status quo or do we want to improve it?
Organic matter management is the primary tool in regenerative farming
- Plants are primarily composed of cellulose and lignins
- Cellulose biodegrades into glucose that feeds the microbes of the soil food web
- These microbes break down cellulose and other plant residues releasing nutrients for the crop
- The soil microbes have many other functions such as building good soil
structure, unlocking minerals and protecting plants from disease - The process of making Biochars oxidises the glucose and destroys it so that there is no food to power the soil microbes
Successful regenerative farming requires a whole-farm approach. This means managing a crop or animal as an integral part of the farm
system rather than in solution.
There are many definitions of a weed. Probably the most common one is: ‘A plant in the wrong place’.
In agriculture a better definition is a plant that adversely affects the production of the crop. Weeds can have many benefits, in this lesson, you will learn how you can manage weeds and replace them with beneficial species.
