WHAT IS REGENERATIVE?
Regenerative Agriculture is “Farming and ranching in synchrony with nature and the four ecosystem processes to repair, rebuild, restore and revitalize ecosystem function, starting with life beneath the soil and expanding to life above .”
(Understanding AG, Dr. Allen Williams)
REGENERATIVE FARMING
Conventional farming is the antithesis of good ecosystem function. For years, modern agriculture at its core has been quantity over quality in an attempt to “feed the world” without taking into consideration how this exploitation will ultimately affect our soil, atmosphere, ecosystems, and even our bodies. Regenerative Agriculture at its root is the process of regenerating soil health, animal health, environmental health, and human health through the careful study of the natural order already provided in creation. Jacob’s Creek Farm was built on these regenerative principles including, no-till farming, and adaptive rotational grazing. We strive to provide our community with health through food, farmed on carefully cultivated, nutrient dense, and diverse farmland.
SOIL HEALTH
We believe in a no-till, minimal disturbance, zero synthetic input system. Allowing nature to do its job through the billions of microorganisms at work under the ground and the plants above the ground, sequestering carbon and amending the soil. This creates living, nutrient-dense, and sustainable soil.
ANIMAL HEALTH
We believe in rotationally grazing our livestock following a natural pattern of ecosystem function. We believe in grazing livestock on healthy soil that sustains diverse nutrient-rich pasture, promoting parasite resistance, overall animal health, and future genetic advantage.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
We believe in carbon sequestration through cover crop and no-till farming, pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and storing it in the soil. We believe in creating a thriving ecosystem on our farm for native animals and wildlife through creation preservation.
HUMAN HEALTH
We believe in promoting the health of the human body and its miraculous framework. By producing food in its most natural form. Restoring the flavor and nutrition to the food we eat, and health back to our bodies. We believe that food is the truest form of medicine and that medicine should come from living soil.
“The only real, practical, hope-giving way to remedy the fragmentation that is the disease of the modern spirit is a small and humble way...one must begin in one’s own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.”
Wendell Berry