What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative Agriculture describes farming and grazing practices that among other benefits, builds soil and creates biodiversity. As a result, it improves the four ecosystem processes and stores carbon.

why Regenerative Agriculture?

The loss of the world’s fertile soil and biodiversity pose a mortal threat to our future survival. According to soil scientists, at current rates of soil destruction ( i.e. decarbonisation, erosion, desertification, chemical pollution), within 50 years we will not only suffer serious damage to public health due to a qualitatively degraded food supply characterized by diminished nutrition and loss of important trace minerals, but we will literally no longer have enough arable topsoil to feed ourselves without protecting and regenerating the soil on our 4 billion acres of cultivated farmland, 8 billion acres of pastureland , and 10 billion acres of forest land, it will be impossible to feed the world, or halt the loss of biodiversity.

How do we implement Regenerative Agriculture at moy hill farm?

We learned about Holistic Management six years ago and have done the training through The Savory Institute facilitated by 3lm. our staff are trained in Holistic Management. Holistic Management provides a framework for decision-making, rooted in the fundamentals of ecosystem processes and with a suite of planning procedures that include planned grazing, land planning, financial planning, and ecological monitoring.

Altogether, Holistic Management equips us to understand the “whole” we are managing (not controlling) and make decisions that bring forth abundant outcomes, regenerating life for all involved. The Savory Institute has created EOV ( Ecological Outcome Verification) as the first internationally recognised monitoring system for Regenerative Agriculture. We did our first EOV here on moy hill farm in 2020. We are very passionate about this system as it proves our land and ecosystem processes are getting better annually.