regenerative farming

Using uncertainty about the ecological and climate crisis as an excuse to wait and see is bad for business, bad for farming and bad for human health.

Regenerative farming methods in use on the small, B.C. island farm for decades to build soil, capture nutrients, and promote biodiversity are reaping rewards as the climate crisis advances.

Karn Manhas, the CEO of Canadian agtech company Terramera, believes that technology is key to making more sustainable regenerative farming widespread.

Why a grain that lives for years could solve the climate crisis.

Regenerative farming promotes raising crops and livestock together along with other methods to promote soil health.

Céline Caron and Yves Tessier devoted their lives to protecting soil health long before regenerative farming became mainstream.

The past decade has seen exploding interest in an approach to farming focused on soil health called regenerative agriculture, which proponents say can help fix the climate crisis. The problem? No one agrees on what regenerative agriculture actually means.

Proponents say the ‘regenerative farming’ eating challenge encourages consumption of more sustainable animal products — but is it just greenwash?

Every day around noon, the smell of grilled beef and roasted venison wafts through the lines of delegates attending the COP26 climate conference as they queue for lunch. Yet even as hundreds flock to the burgers and venison pasties on offer, some attendees wonder if meat — a big emitter worldwide — should be on the menu. 

Over 100 cities, towns, and other regional governments worldwide informally launched a pledge Wednesday to put food at the heart of their climate plans — even as their national counterparts have failed to do the same. 

A dry spring left the fields on Karen Klassen's farm parched, and now the Manitoba farmer is bracing for them to get worse. Any day, an unprecedented heat wave smothering western North America will roll over her land, turning sun-baked soil to dust and leaving a poor crop of peas, wheat, and barley in its wake. 

International food giants are reinventing how they grow — and market — food in a bid to convince eco-conscious consumers their products are environmentally friendly. 

We need to change what we eat. Will bashing beef and slamming seafood help? 

Years ago, the grandparents of Ando’ohl lax̱ ha (Nathan Combs) had fed friends and family from potato fields and smokehouses on a plot of land they tended by the Skeena River about 150 kilometres northeast of Terrace. Combs, who is Gitxan, wanted the land, which had been dormant for years, to again bolster his community’s food security. 

For Tiffany Traverse, the next two growing seasons will be busy studying beans, oats — and lots of dung.