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Why Equine Adaptive Grazing?
Even one animal can overgraze a multi-acre pasture by selectively grazing and re-grazing the same favorite plant,
Sara Faivre
Jul 6, 20243 min read


Control Knobs for Resilience
Roll up your sleeves and do what you can to improve our future through making our present more sustainable, regenerative, kind and connected
Sara Faivre
Jul 1, 20243 min read


Celebrate Microbes!
Soil without biology is just dirt.
Sara Faivre
Jun 28, 20241 min read


Soil is a System-SHA Day 3
Agriculture can be a positive for the environment and for the lives of those involved as producers, consumers and inhabitants.
Sara Faivre
Jun 23, 20242 min read


SHA Day 2-Adaptive Grazing
Q: What should I plant to improve my pasture? A: Fenceposts! Adaptive grazing can do more to improve a pasture than almost anything else.
Sara Faivre
Jun 22, 20242 min read


Soil Health Academy-Day 1
We’ve been trained to be technicians; applying canned protocols, usually involving purchased external inputs. Instead, we need to be manager
Sara Faivre
Jun 18, 20241 min read
Ten Regen Ag Case Studies
A common response is “Well, that might work in (insert different geography or commodity) but it won’t work on my operation”.
Sara Faivre
Jun 17, 20242 min read


Regenerative Corn Production is More Profitable than Conventional
A peer-reviewed study found a whopping 78% higher gross profit on regenerative corn farms compared to location-matched conventional farms.
Sara Faivre
Jun 7, 20242 min read


Principles Before Practices
State-level Grazing Lands Coalitions are a practical resource for regenerative pasture-based livestock production.
Sara Faivre
May 28, 20242 min read


6 Principles of Soil Health
Context and adaptability are foundational to being truly regenerative.
Sara Faivre
May 17, 20243 min read


Lazy Man Potatoes
Growing potatoes without digging to plant or harvest! I’m sold on this method.
Sara Faivre
May 14, 20243 min read


Low Hanging Regenerative Fruit
Some juicy food for thought about things you can do to get started down the road, whether you’re a crop or livestock producer.
Sara Faivre
May 10, 20243 min read


Pastured Poultry Field Trip
First stop on the NCAT field tour was an integrated pastured poultry producer
Sara Faivre
May 8, 20243 min read


Regen Road Trip Reading
What I’m listening to on 16 hours of driving to the NCAT/ATTRA Sustainable Ag conference
Sara Faivre
May 6, 20242 min read


Grazing Horses Regeneratively
I found some suggestions from the Noble Research Institute*, on grazing horses in line with regenerative ag principles.
Sara Faivre
May 5, 20243 min read


Lessons from a Permaculture Orchard
Today's chore-time podcast listen was "The Permaculture Orchard with Stefan Sobkowiak" Key takeaways: A monoculture, even a certified...
Sara Faivre
May 3, 20242 min read


It's All One Thing
he saw the interconnectedness of the whole system, from soil microbes up through the health of our human communities.
Sara Faivre
May 2, 20242 min read


Real Regenerative Ranchers: Sunrise W Land and Cattle
It can be difficult to know where to start in regenerative agriculture. What practices? In what order? I'll be featuring a number of...
Sara Faivre
Apr 19, 20241 min read


The Secret Life of Mycorrhiza
But did you know there was a difference in the carbon laid down in the soil between composted material and living roots? I didn’t.
Sara Faivre
Apr 16, 20242 min read


Identifying and Prioritizing Desires: Foundational questions, Part II
To create a blueprint for the next phase of your life, it’s important to be clear about your wants, needs and deal-breakers.
Sara Faivre
Apr 16, 20243 min read
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