Regenerative Farming

​For decades, industrial agriculture has depleted soils, stripped biodiversity and treated the land as a resource to extract from rather than care for.

 

Regenerative farming works in the opposite direction, rebuilding soil organic matter, restoring biodiversity, improving water cycles and drawing carbon back down into the ground where it belongs.

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It's worth being clear about what it isn't. Regenerative farming is not rewilding. Rewilding removes livestock from the land entirely. We're doing something different by using animals as a tool to improve the land they graze, the way grazing animals always have.

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We take our responsibility as custodians of the land seriously. Fertile topsoil is one of the most precious and most threatened things on earth, and as the people farming this land, we feel a genuine duty to leave it in better condition than we found it. At Springwater Farm, this means holistic planned grazing, agroforestry, no-till cultivation and silvopasture; a set of practices that work together to build soil health, support biodiversity and create a farm that improves with every passing year.

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We've also taken our commitment further by becoming Pasture for Life certified, an independent accreditation that guarantees our animals are raised entirely on pasture and forage, with no grain ever entering their diet.