Interesting that the #regenerativeagriculture bubble has burst in Aotearoa New Zealand but appears to still be going strong at a global level. I've certainly noticed a drop off in local stories here.

The Marches Real Food and Farming Conference 2023
15-16 September

Two days with around 100 speakers, including me (@Eceni) In conversation with Chris Smaje of Small Farm Futures and then on Saturday, with Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedods

And much, much more... https://mrffc.uk

#MRFFC23 #organic #regenerativeagriculture #organicfood #sustainable

Regenerative agriculture, a way of farming that restores soil health and biodiversity, has its roots in the ancient wisdom of Indigenous peoples. They have been practising holistic land management for millennia, respecting the interconnectedness of all living beings and natural cycles. Their knowledge and practices can inspire and guide modern farmers to adopt more sustainable and resilient methods. #RegenerativeAgriculture #IndigenousWisdom #SoilHealth https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/insights/the-indigenous-roots-of-regenerative-agriculture/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

https://youtu.be/i6FYONphSjI
A day here at Rubha Phoil; a lot of connection (with human & non-human beings), creative writing, time observing the natural world, learnings about permaculture practices, & sharing time around the fire 🌀

Get involved & immersed in our community by visiting the link in our bio!
You can even buy a little piece of our Sacred Rock!

#permaculture #isleofskye #crofting #regenerativeagriculture #communityliving #rubhaphoil #ecocommunity #natureconnection

A look into one of the ways we implement traditional #Gaelic wisdom in our permaculture practices here at Rubha Phoil. We celebrate the gifts of the local landscape & utilise seaweed to create rich & healthy compost to enrich our soil!

To get involved, learn or visit, join our Virtual Village: https://www.rubhaphoil.org/join-our-virtual-village

To buy a piece of Rubha Phoil: https://www.earth-ways.com/projects/transferring-ownership

#permaculture #isleofskye #crofting #regenerativeagriculture #rubhaphoil #natureconnection

https://youtube.com/shorts/vtB8H5Wqcw0

Our soils are often exhausted, leading to lower crop yields, degraded food quality and fallow land. The solution is to plant more crops. Counterintuitive as that may seem, planting more crops, can replenish nutrients in the soil through a process called regenerative agriculture — growing non-cash crops during the off-season provides more organic material that returns to the soil, completing the circle of life. #RegenerativeAgriculture #SoilHealth #FoodQuality https://themessenger.com/opinion/how-to-fix-our-exhausted-soil-thats-leading-to-worse-food-quality

Food security is absolutely at high risk.

“Poor farming practices were not helping”

Mandate #regenerativeagriculture #agriculture #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/12/global-heating-likely-to-hit-world-food-supply-faster-than-expected-says-united-nations-desertification-expert?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A truly great (and not too long) podcast series on what's wrong with especially Western societies and how to fix things. Highly recommended! #ClimateCrisis #EcologicalCrisis #democracy #degrowth #regenerativeagriculture #SystemsThinking #ecosocialism #commons
The Water We Swim In https://shows.acast.com/the-water-we-swim-in/episodes/trailer via @acast

In case you need reasons why you never, ever want to use Roundup - OR eat anything that has been sprayed with it... this from Chelsea Green Publishing is essential reading:

https://www.chelseagreen.com/2023/so-what-exactly-is-glyphosate/?mc_cid=01f82695de&mc_eid=501e447cf7

#regenerativeagriculture #Regenerativefarming #permaculture

Hopping on the #AskMeAbout bandwagon, because I think it's brilliant, and hopefully opens up conversations & connections

#AskMeAbout:

#Permaculture or #RegenerativeAgriculture - though there are people here on Mastodon who are much more educated than me on these things

All kinds of #Art, but particularly #Tattooing and #PerformanceArt

Anything relating to exodus from capitalism and the abusive aspects of our modern society

#Spirituality, #Meditation, or #Paganism - I love to learn more as I converse with people about these quite broad topics!

Pinned by way of an #introduction

What would a genuinely progressive, regenerative Green New Deal look like if it took into account he well-being of all life on the planet?

On this week's #accidentalgods #podcast, we discuss the options with @MaxAjl, author of "A People’s Green New Deal".

https://accidentalgods.life/a-green-new-deal-that-works-for-people-and-planet-with-max-ajl/

#greennewdeal #energy #climatejustice #socialjustice #regenerativeagriculture

Inspiring 16-min. video about Zephaniah Phiri Maseko, a farmer from Zimbabwe who used rainwater harvesting and other techniques to restore his severely degraded land. He also started and inspired initiatives that teach other farmers to do the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22V4vUtNC8Q
#RegenerativeAgriculture #Agriculture #SoilPreservation

He passed away in 2015. This is an overview of his life: https://explorer-directory.nationalgeographic.org/zephaniah-phiri-maseko

Current reading list. Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature Friendly Future, by Philip Lymbery. Restoring the Wild: Rewilding our Skies, Woodlands and Waterways, by Roy Dennis. The Forager's Calendar: a Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvests, by John Wright. #Nature #Climate #RegenerativeAgriculture #Rewilding #Plants #Foraging

Ecosystem Impacts and Productive Capacity of a Multi-Species Pastured Livestock System

#RegenerativeAgriculture "does, in fact, regenerate ecological function including soil health, resilience, GHG mitigation, and biodiversity . . . When comparing this approach to a business-as-usual COM-based approach, and including soil C sequestration, the overall emission footprint of the regenerative agriculture approach was 3-fold less"

#Cattle #Farming #Agriculture #CanAg

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2020.544984/full#B7

The EU this week introduced a soil law aimed to improve soil quality and sequester more carbon. 🌲 Definitely doesn't go far enough, but this is an exciting first step.

The legislation focusses on setting out a ‘definition of soil health’ as well as a ‘framework for soil health monitoring’.

The initial ambition was to give soil a protected status similar to that of air or water, but that didn't happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/06/eu-sets-out-first-ever-soil-law-to-protect-food-security-and-slow-global-heating

#biodiversity #soil #EU #agriculture #regenerativeagriculture

@JeffAndDonkeys Another interesting thread. Touches on the concepts of abundant production through diverse symboliotic #AgroForestry and #RegenerativeAgriculture.

@JeffAndDonkeys Interesting thread. @LylaJuneTweets@Twitter recently did her PhD dissertation on "Architects of Abundance", researching several Indigenous food systems across Turtle Island that were stewarded by the local cultures into abundance for thousands of years. Decolonising our food production needs to be a top priority. #RegenerativeAgriculture #IndigenousKnowledge

Agrifood podcast: Gene editing and soil proposals, regenerative agriculture https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/podcast/agrifood-podcast-gene-editing-and-soil-proposals-regenerative-agriculture/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #agrifoodpodcast #geneediting #regenerativeagriculture

A great conversation on Troon Vineyard and regenerative agriculture on the ReGen Brands podcast! I had a great talking about biodynamics and Regenerative Organic Gold Certified® farming! https://regen-brands.com/episode/38-craig-camp-troon-vineyard #biodynamicwine #biodynamic #biodynamicfarming #regenerativeagriculture

As we celebrate this, the most lively, longest day of the year, I bring some updates:
We've been extremely busy these last couple of months, getting some of the new plantings established and also just with other *life* things.
We've learned some valuable lessons and I'm extremely pleased to be able to share that everything we're growing at the Ranch is absolutely thriving!
Thriving, despite the water that is literally the quality of brackish seawater, we found out (we have filters for our whole house and for our drinking water, but learned that the whole house filter isn't cutting it AND that the hose spigots aren't going through the whole house filter since they were poorly set up).
Thriving, despite that the topsoil is literally just sand and gravel. For instance, on a whim I planted some sweet potatoes in sand in a spot where a hose spigot leaks, and they're sprouting, having only been given sand and the drip from the hose. My guess is they're able to thrive on the nutrients in the tuber itself, so we'll see what happens when those are used up. For now, though, it's extremely exciting to see things take root in such an apparently hostile environment.

There's also grass shooting up anywhere it can, anywhere there's water and a little shade. It's a good reminder that this is not a true desert, that this is just arid land and it is only desertified through human behavior. And especially as we read "Tending the Wild", on resource management by California's Indigenous peoples, it's inspiring to realize that we can reverse this state through careful stewarding of the land, as well.

With blooming sage and rosemary, mesquite and palo verde, date palms and oleander, prickly pear and beavertail, agave and aloe, there is an abundance of insect activity and wildlife. Crickets, grasshoppers, all kinds of bees, fascinating spiders, desert iguanas and really large lizards, ground squirrels and many more types of birds than we saw last year in the summer, all are flocking to the green, the wet, and the shade.

Birds are taking pomegranate seeds and depositing them around the desert, one of our mesquite trees is sprouting a small child next to it, our date palms are propagating themselves with little frond shoots and one is even growing teeny green dates despite the fact that we were told we'd have to hand pollinate them to make that happen.

We're celebrating abundance and giving offerings and thanks to this land all day today, culminating with a ritual this evening to charge a solar tattoo I'll be doing outside.

#SummerSolstice #Solstice #RanchoDeLaLiberta #Permaculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #MojaveDesert #Eco #Sustainability #Desert #LandWorship