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When Charles Rosen founded Ironbound Farm in 2015, he was quick to plant an orchard with 10,000 apple trees on land that formerly grew grapevines. He soon faced his first challenge: The trees on his 108-acre Garden State farm weren’t thriving. And without fruit, his plans to revive a lost apple variety and launch a hard cider business looked bleak.
Looking back, Rosen sees exactly where he went wrong. “We hadn’t dealt with the mugwort or the thistle or any other invasive species,” he says. “There was no life in the soil. There wasn’t an earthworm to be found.”
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Look for the word regenerative at your local grocery store. Chances are, you ll spot it on boxes of mac and cheese, cartons of milks, or even bags of chips. Regenerative agriculture, also called carbon farming, has become the latest darling of everyone from food companies to universities to politicians. But what
is regenerative agriculture? How do products made with these practices differ from others, and can buying them help consumers fight the climate crisis? Here s what you need to know about this farming philosophy.
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Look for the word regenerative at your local grocery store. Chances are, you ll spot it on boxes of mac and cheese, cartons of milks, or even bags of chips. Regenerative agriculture, also called carbon farming, has become the latest darling of everyone from food companies to universities to politicians. But what
is
regenerative agriculture? How do products made with these practices differ from others, and can buying them help consumers fight the climate crisis? Here s what you need to know about this farming philosophy.
Nation s first regenerative organic dairy drew inspiration from WI mentors
Stephanie and Blake Alexandre, owners of Alexandre Family Farm in Crescent City, Calif., have made huge steps in conservation on their dairy farm: they are the first to earn regenerative organic certification in the United States.
Regenerative organic certification denotes a holistic approach to farming that puts soil health and animal welfare before anything else. The idea is to work in harmony with nature, Blake said, which will help fight back against climate change and the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We re part of the solution, and so that s what regenerative agriculture means in the context of the word, Blake said. What it means to us is that it s really cool that somebody come along with a word and a name and a certification to describe what we really do as dairy farmers who graze cattle for many generations.