6 Ways to Practice Climate Farming

If you read the first part of our Climate Farming series in the June/July 2021 issue (“Climate Farming Practices”), then you already know that Climate Farming is a cutting-edge growing practice that combines proven tenets of regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and syntropic agroforestry in a unique way. Climate Farming practices include:

• Integrating livestock into growing operations.
• Minimizing soil disturbances through no-till practices.
• Composting.
• Companion planting.
• Succession planting.
• Natural erosion control.
• Careful water management.

The purpose of Climate Farming is to produce delicious, nutritious fruits and vegetables while improving topsoil health, reducing or eliminating harmful agricultural runoff, and sequestering atmospheric greenhouse gases.

Putting Climate Farming into practice is a way you can make a difference in the battle against climate change beyond sharing a social media post or donating to a cause. We can all begin doing our part in the home garden and asking for Climate-Farmed produce at the market.

Aside from its global impact on climate change reversal, collective carbon