What Is Regenerative Agriculture?

IN THE 2020 DOCUMENTARY, KISS THE GROUND, A REVOLUTIONARY GROUP OF ACTIVISTS, SCIENTISTS, FARMERS, AND POLITICIANS, BAND TOGETHER IN A GLOBAL MOVEMENT OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE THAT COULD BALANCE OUR CLIMATE, REPLENISH OUR VAST WATER SUPPLIES, AND FEED THE WORLD.

THE FILM DEMONSTRATES HOW REGENERATIVE FARMING PRACTICES, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, AND ULTIMATELY HEALTHIER SOIL, CAN NOT ONLY HELP TO REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS, BUT TO PRESS REWIND ON THE DAMAGE THAT HUMANS HAVE INFLICTED ON THE PLANET. THE FOLLOW UP FILM, COMMON GROUND, CAN ALSO BE SEEN NOW IN 2024.

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Watch Kiss The Ground

This documentary is free to watch on YouTube.

KISS THE GROUND is an audience-supported non-profit promiting regenrative and healthy soil as a viable solution for our wellness, water, and climate crisis.

Since 2013, we’ve inspired milliins to participate inthe regenerative movement through storytelling, education, and partnerships. Visit our website and learn more

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KISS THE GROUND MOVIE - 45 MIN EDUCATIONAL VERSION TO STREAM FOR TEACHERS + CLASSES

WHY Is Rebecca’s Gardens Passionate About Putting Regenerative Philosophy Into Action?

When We Each Take An Honest Look At Ourselves In Relation To Our Community Values — We May Notice A Growth Opportunity In 3 Key Points:

(A) Our Understanding of Our Relationship With Nature

(B) Habitual Narratives That Overlook The Current Spectrum of Our Social Economies + Ability To Thrive

(C) The Importance (and Right Timing) of Starting New Conversations

IN WITH THE NEW We are grateful to recognize that everything we have learned during our time in the landscape industry over the past decade has laid fertile groundwork for what it now takes in the present moment to (a) engage the necessary conversations within our current community, (b) open doors to new solutions, and (c) open the windows for the fresh air of understanding something from a whole new level… What we are seeing happen in our yards, our community, and globally, is a collective recognition that what is needed in the property management and maintenance sector is not just ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ (washed), but is… truly grounded, able to regenerate because of alignment with Nature’s Patterns (aka Regenerative Design) in a way that also supports our goals from the ground up. We are ripe for adopting a new perspective that defines how we live and grow with the land we steward and how it is a mutually supportive ongoing relationship of integral social, ecological, and technological economies. We hope you’ll join us as we explore more in the way of growing, and as we continue to follow our inspiration to share with you from the leading edge.

Rebecca’s Gardens is exploring new ways of growing plants and building “micro-ecology yards” to bridge the gap between suburban habits

and new growing techniques that offer a kalidascope of progressive value.

Visit us at Geoflower.org to learn more about our offerings, gatherings, events, hands-on practice, and big hearted, open minded community at the farm!

HOW OUR RECOGNITION + RE-ENGAGEMENT OF NATURE’S BIODIVERSITY

IS CORRECTING OUR DEGRADATION OF THE PLANET AND OURSELVES

THROUGH CULTIVATING AN INNATE BALANCE OF SYSTEMIC HEALTH

THROUGH INTEGRATED SOIL, PLANT, ANIMAL + LIFESTYLE RELATIONSHIPS

“Changing Paradigms” explores the power of regenerative agriculture in improving the natural environment, human health, and reliable profit in sheep farming.

Tom’s Outdoors is based in Tumut nestled in the Snowy Valleys, enclosed by Kosciusko National Park and rural farmland. Our home in the outdoors is our lifeblood and the lifeblood of our beloved home is agriculture. The climate crisis concerns us deeply and we are passionate about the longevity of our rural country town and its neighbours.

We, as humans, have an innate attraction to the natural world. But, the way we currently interact with the environment is unsustainable and causing a disconnect with nature. We have one generation, our generation, to take action and change the paradigm. Charles Massy (author of “Call of the Reed Warbler”) and Norm Smith both take a sustainable, systems thinking approach to sheep farming. They have moved away from industrial practices of land clearing and using chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Now they work with nature rather than against it, in turn, reviving the once over-grazed land.

The power of regenerative agriculture is even greater than improving the profitability and resilience of family farms, the implications on planetary and human health are tremendously positive. Filmed and directed by Henry Smith.

A WORLDVIEW OF EXPONENTIAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT HAS CREATED A DOMINANT ECONOMY OF POLARIZATION, STRESS, DISHARMONY, AND EXTREMES.

ITS TIME TO EMBRACE A MORE BIO-DIVERSE VIEW OF OUR SOCIAL ECONOMIES (AS FORMS OF EXHANGE), FROM QUALITY OF LIFE, TO OUR TIME, SPACE, RELATIONSHIPS, AS WELL AS OUR MARKETS. RECOGNIZING ALL OF LIFE’S MUTUAL BENEFITS IS WHAT MAKES US WHOLLY HUMAN

In the documentary ”Into the Soil” we follow Brigid LeFevre, who runs a community supported agriculture operation (CSO) in Järna, Sweden. In her biodynamic vegetable garden she focuses on fermenting the harvest in order to enrich it with nutritious lactic acid bacteria. Brigid grew up in an anthroposophically inspired Camphill community in Northern Ireland where volunteers lived and worked together with people with special needs. It was a self-sufficient community where the local store brought in bulk organic produce and each household would write down their purchases – without any actual exchange of money.

”A refreshing perspective on what it means to be wealthy” – Don Smith, Kiss the Ground

Growing up in a place where food was separated from the economic market has had a big impact on Brigid’s philosophy as a farmer. And really, come to think about it, why is it that the global ups and downs of the economy should determine the operating practices of small scale local farms? In Brigid’s garden it doesn’t. She grows and ferments vegetables for the members, who subscribe to her sauerkraut, kimchi and lacto fermented pickles, all year round. The members support this regenerative agriculture operation with money or hands-on help in the garden. It’s a local, circular economy, which underpins an alive garden, buzzing and chirping, where the goal isn’t to turn a profit, but rather to make the soil more alive with the passing of each season. Directed and produced by Mattias Olsson for Campfire Stories. Financed in part by the Namaste Foundation.

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Watch The Biggest Little Farm

The Biggest Little Farm follows two dreamers and their beloved dog when they make a choice that takes them out of their tiny L.A. apartment and into the countryside to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete coexistence with nature. The film chronicles their near decade-long attempt to create the utopia they seek, planting 10,000 orchard trees, hundreds of crops, and bringing in animals of every kind– including an unforgettable pig named Emma and her best friend, Greasy the rooster. When the farm’s ecosystem finally begins to reawaken, their plan to create perfect harmony takes a series of wild turns, and to survive they realize they'll have to reach a far greater understanding of the intricacies and wisdom of nature, and of life itself.