Agriculture Resources

Resources

This page highlights case studies, videos, tools, and other resources from our partners. Our goal is to make it easy and accessible to implement carbon farming practices into your business model.

Our Rooted Community Action Group

We’ve partnered with the Sustainable Food Lab to launch and facilitate an ongoing interactive action group on carbon farming, called the Rooted Community. It's open to all companies that have made the agriculture commitment. The group meets monthly, and content addresses a range of topics relevant to carbon farming, including:

• Measurement to quantify regenerative agriculture
• Resilience in small-holder supply chains, and
• Collaborations in specific crops/regions.

Interested in joining? Please email [email protected] for more information, and to be included in this ground-breaking action group!

For those needing more tailored support, Sustainable Food Trade Association is available to help!

Tools to help you measure net carbon and explain how to talk about it:

• Cool Farm Alliance’s Cool Farm Tool
• USDA’s COMET-Farm Tool for calculating net carbon
• PUR Projet for insetting, supply chain impacts, and agroforestry

Case Studies and Company Examples:

• Climate Collaborative's Regenerative Agriculture Spotlights
• The SHP Sustainability & Regenerative Practices Toolkit
• Q&A: Why organic farming is a promising part of a climate change solution 
• Guest Post: Breakthrough Study Shows Organic Cuts Agriculture’s Contribution to Climate Change
• Straus Family Creamery: Building a Business Case for Regenerative Agriculture
• Spotlight: Annie's
• Spotlight: Dr. Bronner's
• Spotlight: General Mills and its Natural & Organic Brands Join Annie’s in Forging Ahead on Climate Action
• Spotlight: Guayaki
• Spotlight: Happy Family
• Spotlight: Nature’s Path
• Spotlight: Stonyfield

Webinars:

• Farmer Perspectives on Regenerative Agriculture
• Regenerative Toolbox: How OpenTEAM Software Can Help Farmers Draw Down Emissions
• Mapping the Regenerative Standards Landscape
• ROOTED Community Cool Farming Tool Training
• The Role of Organic Farming in Climate Change Mitigation
• Regenerative Agriculture Panel - Climate Day 2017
• Leveraging Supply Chains to Regenerate Farmlands and Forests
• Implementing Carbon Farming in Your Supply Chain
• The Regenerative Toolbox: Developing and Implementing Self-Assessment Tools
• Interview with Elizabeth Whitlow from Regenerative Organic Alliance
• Interview with Sarah Andrysiak from the Soil Carbon Index
• Policy at the Farm Level: Unlocking Barriers to Adopting Regenerative Agricultural Practices

Films on the potential of carbon farming and soils:

• Unbroken Ground by Patagonia Provisions
• The Soil Story by Kiss the Ground
• Carbon Farming with Eric Toensmeier - a Food Tank Webinar

Links for more information on carbon farming:

• The Carbon Underground
• IFOAM Organics International
• Rodale Institute
• Cool Farming Full Report from Greenpeace
• An inspiring look at regenerative farming projects around the globe
• Soil Health and Organic Farming: An Ecological Approach for downloadable guides from the Organic Farming Research Foundation
• Soil Health Policy Resource Catalog from the Soil Health Institute

We want to send a special thank you to our fiscal sponsor and Rooted Community collaborator Sustainable Food Lab for supporting and facilitating much of our carbon farming programming!