regenerative farming
Earth-healing agriculture
Regenerative farming is an approach to agriculture that aims to restore and improve the land rather than merely sustain it.
The practices vary but typically include minimal tillage, cover cropping, crop rotation, and integrating livestock—all meant to rebuild soil health, increase biodiversity, and sequester carbon.
Proponents contrast it with conventional farming, which they see as extractive: The ranch transitioned to regenerative farming after years of degraded pastures.
- organic farmingCultivation without synthetic chemicals
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- agroforestryTrees integrated with farming
- food forestLayered edible perennial system
- intercroppingSimultaneous multi-crop cultivation
composting · rainwater harvesting · water retention · crop rotation · drip irrigation · afforestation · wildlife corridors · agroecology · biochar · humus · natural cycles · closed loop · rewilding · soil health · earthworms · carbon credits · no-till · carbon
regenerative farmingindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
monoculture · factory farming · plantation agriculture · agribusiness