New studies, practical applications and certification developments, alongside scrutiny of sustainability claims and greenwashing.
Dimitris Fanariotis and Evgenia Vitouladiti have completed the Soil Food Web School Foundation Courses. This shared foundation strengthens the work of Bio7 and the Hellenic Center for Regenerative Agriculture.
Read the article →The 9 latest reports, dated by their original source. As new reports arrive, older ones remain in the subject archive.
Nick Offerman, Mary Berry and James Rebanks discuss land stewardship and rural communities.
A Farm Progress article by Brent Murphree raises a practical question: how much can a conventional nutrient report tell us about living soil?
The 24-hour online gathering on 16 October explored Grassroots Rising across continents.
EIT Food listed an online event for 16 October entitled “The revolution under our feet: Exploring regenerative agriculture”, connecting the subject with food quality, farmers’ livelihoods and the maintenance of land quality.
A southern Spanish olive orchard case study examines seasonal and spatial differences in soil microbial functioning.
Australia’s CSIRO has announced STRAP, a five-year programme testing regenerative practices in grain production across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
Daily work on the farm often limits the time available for education. The Rodale Institute presents an online platform that allows growers to study at their own pace, combining farming knowledge with farm management.
The transition to organic and regenerative production requires healthy soil, knowledge and an organized approach to selling farm products. The Rodale Institute has presented a free guide that connects growers’ decisions with actual market needs.
Vegetation between vineyard rows influences both the soil and the crop. A study in southern Brazil monitored these relationships over three growing seasons in a Viognier vineyard.
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Dr Elaine Ingham’s contribution to the USDA–NRCS guide connects knowledge of microorganisms with the functions of living soil.
We aim to restore the functions supporting life and production: the soil food web, soil structure, nutrient cycling and water management. Regenerative agriculture connects these functions with practices intended to increase soil carbon retention.
Since 1981, Rodale has compared organic and conventional systems on the same plots. The Farming Systems Trial follows soil, yield and resource management across decades.
AEA’s framework connects nutrition and biology with plant health.
Switzerland’s DOK experiment compares biodynamic, organic and conventional systems over decades, following production and soil functions.
Cover management can leave biomass on the surface while reducing soil disturbance. A roller-crimper is a ribbed cylinder that lays plants down and crimps their stems.
In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown describes his North Dakota family farm’s transition towards soil regeneration, combining crops, cover and livestock to improve agroecosystem functions.
Indiana fifth-generation farmer Rick Clark combines organic farming, no-till and systematic cover crops, placing soil care at the foundation of production and reduced external inputs.
Crop quality includes the nutrients and plant compounds in food. Rodale studies how management connects soil health with vegetable composition.
Farm returns depend on yield, product value and costs. A larger harvest can come with costs that leave the grower less.
The Rodale Institute is launching new trials to investigate how winter cover crops and planting dates influence fibre hemp establishment, soil health and fibre quality.
What private standards assess, how they differ from organic certification, and the questions a grower should ask before joining a scheme.
Legal protection of organic production in the EU, the scope of environmental descriptions, and the information to look for on a label.
Greek market signals and the questions farmers should ask before joining a programme.
The announced funding rises from $700 million, combining EQIP and CSP support.
Bioremediation connects fungi transforming herbicides, hydrocarbon-using bacteria, metal-binding biomass and plants accumulating pollutants. Its potential becomes useful when we distinguish transformation, transfer and verified detoxification.
Biochar can provide a habitat and carrier for mycorrhizal fungi. Rodale Institute, USDA and university research examines agricultural uses.
An active microbial community develops around living roots. Plant-released substances feed this life, connecting photosynthesis with nutrition in soil.
Earthworms and arthropods fragment residues, move materials and participate in feeding relationships. Their activity connects microbiology with structure, water and plant nutrition.
Many nematodes consume bacteria, fungi or other organisms and contribute to plant nutrition. Their feeding group helps us understand their role in soil.
Protozoa consume bacteria and help release nutrients. They connect microbial biomass with plant nutrition and larger organisms within the soil food web.
Fungi transform residues, incorporate carbon into biomass and retain nutrients. Mycorrhizal fungi extend the area from which roots obtain nutrients through fine hyphae. These functions are important to a functioning soil food web.
Bacteria contribute to decomposition, nutrient retention and cycling, particularly nitrogen, and soil structure. Their relationships with roots and other organisms connect microscopic life with plant nutrition.
Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes and larger organisms form a living network. As they feed and interact, they transform organic matter, release nutrients and shape the soil in which roots grow.
Olive roots can cooperate with mycorrhizal fungi. Plants provide food; fine fungal hyphae extend the area explored for nutrients.
A drop of a properly prepared sample reveals soil and compost life. Bacteria, fungal hyphae, protozoa and nematodes participate in decomposition and nutrient cycling.
The fungal-to-bacterial ratio describes one part of the microbial community. We relate it to the crop, available food and the functioning of the whole soil food web.
The environment around a root is continually shaped by the interaction between the plant and soil organisms. In the regenerative approach taught by Dr. Elaine Ingham, restoring this relationship is a fundamental part of managing plant nutrition.
The Johnson–Su method combines passive aeration, consistent moisture and long curing to produce microbially rich compost for biological soil inoculation.
Compost can help protect plants against soil pathogens. Effectiveness depends on its biology, the pathogen and the crop.
Earthworms cooperate with microorganisms to transform residues into useful material for soil and plants. They need mild temperatures, moisture, oxygen and appropriate feeding.
Life continues to develop after the hot phase. Curing management and microscopy help us assess the compost we will transfer to soil.
Thermophilic composting transforms residues into stable material with a living microbial community. Composition, moisture, aeration and turning determine the path from raw materials to mature compost.
Composting coffee residues connects urban life with soil regeneration. We use grounds as part of mature compost, after proper processing with an equal quantity of woody materials, rather than applying them directly.
Both methods transfer compost components and microorganisms into water. Their main differences lie in preparation and intended use.
After appropriate composting, olive oil production residues can return to the grove, reusing some harvested carbon and nutrients to improve soil.
Regular compost applications can leave a lasting mark on soil. A new study of a thirty-year experiment in China examines organic carbon, nutrients, and bacterial and fungal communities together.
A liquid preparation made from organic residues improved tomato and lettuce growth under restricted irrigation in a greenhouse experiment.
Vegetation protects olive grove soil from rain and erosion. A seven-year Spanish trial shows how maintaining cover can change outcomes.
Rain benefits crops when water enters the soil instead of running off with soil and nutrients. Cover, living roots and soil organisms help create the structure enabling this pathway.
Cover protects soil, feeds microbes and supports structure. Mediterranean management must balance these benefits with water availability for olives as the dry season approaches.
Shredded branches and leaves can provide surface cover and food for organisms decomposing plant residues.
Long-term trials let us examine organic matter, soil properties and tree responses together.
A comparison of neighbouring Spanish olive groves examines soil and economic performance after six years of regenerative management.
A central Spanish olive grove trial compares spontaneous vegetation, annual legumes, permanent grass cover and conventional tillage across two contrasting rainfall years.
Managed grazing is the best-known aspect of Savory’s approach. The framework also includes financial planning, infrastructure and ecological monitoring.
Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf raise environmental, nutritional and ethical questions about meat. We examine grazing, trees, soil carbon and methane as distinct parts of the discussion.
Planned grazing connects animal presence with vegetation growth: when to graze, for how long and when plants will be ready again. The interval is a fundamental management component.
Adaptive grazing organises animal movement around vegetation and land conditions. W. Richard Teague and colleagues examined its relationship with soil and plants in 2011.
Livestock footprints include animals, feed, manure and energy. Changes in soil carbon can also influence the balance of grazing systems.
Silvopasture deliberately integrates trees, forage and livestock under shared management. In this agroforestry system, each component influences the others.
Cover crops feed soil life through exudates and residues. Plant selection influences both the amount and form of accumulated carbon.
Plants and organic matter bring carbon into soil. Suitable management can increase stocks, benefiting soil and climate. The size and persistence of gains require measurement.
Soil organic matter includes living organisms, recent plant and animal residues, decomposing materials and compounds remaining for longer periods. These components undergo continual transformation.
Roots, exudates and residues bring carbon into soil. Microbes participate both in decomposition and in forming organic matter that can persist longer.
Photosynthesis captures atmospheric carbon in organic compounds. Some moves belowground to feed roots and associated organisms.
The EU’s CRCF framework, the development of methodologies in 2026, and the groundwork for an informed discussion about small olive groves.
A British farm example, research on agricultural diversification, and practical monitoring for olive groves.
Verra’s consultation highlights sampling, repeated measurements and uncertainty assessment.
Recovery appears in soil life, water absorption and the roots soil can support. Baseline and repeated measurements track these functions after intervention.
Savory Institute’s Ecological Outcome Verification follows changes in soil, vegetation and ecosystem functions through annual observations and more detailed five-year measurements.
Principles, entry conditions and the certification body’s role.
Three pillars, an organic certification baseline, and distinct processes for farms and product claims.
Sap analysis measures nutrients in liquid extracted from specified tissues. It can inform nutritional status at sampling and help follow changes through a season.
Plant nutrition depends partly on organisms transforming organic matter and releasing nutrients. USDA–ARS soil scientist Rick Haney developed a test combining chemical measures with biological activity indicators.
Regenerative agriculture needs transparent rules, measurable progress and living soil. An appealing word alone is insufficient.
Read the article →An analysis of 1,233 environmental claims and its relevance to evidence in regenerative agriculture. The study is not restricted to regenerative claims. External article in Greek.
Read the article →The Iowa maize programme raises questions about chemical dependence, industrial no-till and evidence of change. We distinguish criticism and hypotheses from verified programme outcomes.
“Regenerative” appears on products, corporate programmes and farming practices. We examine management changes and outcomes in soil, biodiversity and production.
Lessons from a food advertising ruling, guidance on regenerative claims, and a practical approach to assessing the evidence.
New findings about soil, soil biology, composting and growing practices.
What certification schemes measure, how rules change and what that means for growers and consumers.
We check the evidence behind “regenerative” claims and distinguish documented practice from greenwashing.