Regenerative Agriculture is a farming practice that is revolutionizing agriculture in Canada. It enhances soil health, biodiversity, and resilience, and helps farmers face the challenges of climate change. The Dairy Farmers of Canada report that regenerative agriculture is a journey to improve farm resilience and keep producing food. Farmers have learned from successes and opportunities in applying the principles of regeneration to mitigate the effects of climate change and offer ecosystem services.
The six principles of regenerative agriculture include minimizing soil disturbance, maximizing crop diversity, maintaining soil cover, maintaining living roots year-round where possible, integrating livestock, and understanding the needs of your farm. Canadian Dairy Farmer, Sander van Stee, is passionate about animals. He went to the University of Guelph with aspirations of becoming a veterinarian but later came home to the family dairy farm instead. In 2014, they built a new dairy facility centered around cow comfort, which improved the cows' health, becoming one of the top-managed herds in Wellington County.
Sander eventually wanted to do more to improve the lives of his animals but found there was no market for it. This led to the idea of "Moral Eats," a company that sources and delivers moral animal products because, for a solution to improve the welfare of farm animals to be sustainable, it must be profitable. Sander joined me this week to tell me more about his journey.
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