Dr. Elaine introduces soil food web biology and mechanisms, describing how microorganisms create the foundation for regenerative food solutions. How can we design practical methods to restore broken soils? She answers this key question, by explaining how aerobic microorganisms repair and maintain healthy and fertile agroecosystems. When humans work in tandem with holistic and scientific soil dynamics, we can achieve amazing outcomes.

Malawi in SE Africa suffers from malnutrition and hunger of varying degrees over the last 20 years.  Frequently, farmers need the support of Aid from overseas due to falling productivity from the farmland, and in areas, abject poverty.  Colin explains the extent of these problems and the fundamentally flawed approach to farming in the country.  He begins to explain the solutions to the problems.

It is commonly said that it takes healthy soil to produce healthy crops, but what does it take to produce healthy soil? In the presentation John Kempf will describe how healthy plants photosynthesize more efficiently than less healthy plants, and increase the volume of carbon being cycled through an ecosystem. Without the carbon contribution originating from plants, there is no food source for soil biology, and soil is nothing more than undecomposed rock particulate. Plants capture the energy source that drives the development of healthy soil, not the other way around.

Rick will discuss his current operation, and he will also discuss the economics of farming green.

The principles of regenerative soil systems are shaped by our landscape, contexts and individual philosophies. Any practice can result in soil building or soil degradation, the outcomes are dependent on the hands and mindset of the people on the ground. How can we connect more deeply with our contexts to supercharge our soils? IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a LIVE event. You will be participating in Zoom. Please make sure you have the latest version of Zoom downloaded on your computer before the session starts. Click here for information on how to download Zoom on your device.

In this panel discussion, John Kempf, Nicole Masters, Elaine Ingham, and Colin Andrews share their thoughts on the future of Regenerative Ag. They answer audience questions regarding bringing these approaches to urban environments and school grounds.

Dr. Ingham has advanced our knowledge about the soil food web for over 4 decades. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering ordinary people to bring the soils in their community back to life. Dr. Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on six continents. The courses offered by Dr. Elaine’s™ Soil Food Web School have been designed for people with no relevant experience – making them accessible to individuals who wish to retrain and to begin a meaningful and impactful career in an area that will help to secure the survival of humans and other species.

John Kempf is an entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host, and teacher. He is passionate about the potential of well-managed agriculture ecosystems to reverse ecological degradation. It is John’s mission to have these regenerative models of agriculture management become the mainstream globally by 2040. In addition to being a grower, John is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, Crop Health Labs, Ozadia, and the Regenerative Agriculture Academy. He hosts the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, where he interviews top growers and scientists about the principles and practice of implementing regenerative agriculture on a large scale.

Colin was brought up in many countries and had lived in 18 different homes before he left home. Starting his career in surveying in Iceland, he trained in Estate Management and became a Chartered Surveyor and later a member of the Australian Institute of Valuers. In Australia he worked on a number of farms and on return to the UK became a partner in an established firm of Chartered Surveyors which specialized in Estate and Farm management. His interests focus on biodiversity with particular interests in insects, wildflowers, and trees and their effect on farming. He is married with 4 sons and lives on a smallholding on the edge of the ancient and biodiverse New Forest in Hampshire UK. He joined Tiyeni in 2013 and became Chair of the Board in 2017.

Over the last decade the Regrarians Platform® has become the most comprehensive agroecological planning, development and management framework. With many thousands of users worldwide working in all climates and all landscape scales, its use has been fundamental to those land managers regenerating the ecosystems they find themselves a part of, and the communities that they work within. This talk outlines the platform using examples of it in action. Company Title and Website: Regrarians Ltd., www.Regrarians.org

Chris speaks with commercial farmers from the U.S. and abroad using Korean Natural Farming technologies on their farms. What works, what’s the bottom line and what are the struggles; are all covered in this series of conversations with revolutionaries in their industries. Wine grapes at scale, golf turf management, 1,000-acre mechanized row crops, cannabis, and an Irish dairy are all covered.

In this panel discussion, Rick Clark, Darren Doherty, Chris Trump, and Adam B. Cobb cover a wide range of topics, including their approaches and experiences with Regenerative Farming, and thoughts on how we can all collaborate more to be more successful. They also share their own definitions of Regenerative Agriculture.