Regenerative agriculture

shares approach with

• 45th Parallel Hops Michigan-bred varieties (Triple Pearl, Michigan Copper, Michigan Mackinac) are regional-adaptation work — the same logic as heirloom cultivar stewardship in orchards
• Chase Hill Farm 100% grass-fed dairy is the pasture-rotation foundation; diversification across species multiplies the soil-building benefit
• Diversified Farming diversity is one of regenerative agriculture's core soil-health principles — many roots, many residues, living cover
• Edgewood Apiaries apiary economics depend on a healthy regional bloom landscape — operators in this category are direct beneficiaries of pollinator-friendly land use around them
• Great Malus Beef grass-fed pastured cattle with documented care standards — substrate-builder pasture model
• Hemp Farm hemp is a strong rotational crop — deep taproot, fast canopy closure, low input requirement, soil-conditioning bast residue
• Livestock Farm rotational grazing managed for soil-building is the most studied regenerative practice in temperate grassland systems
• Lost Sheep Ranch 100% grass-fed sheep with no grain supplementation is the strictest grass-finishing model
• Lum Farm stacking multiple species on the same land — meat + dairy + poultry + vegetables — is the integrated polyculture pattern the directory weights toward
• Mixed Farm enterprise stacking and nutrient cycling between operations are foundational regenerative practices
• Mycology mycorrhizal networks and fungal decomposition are core to the soil biology regenerative practice protects
• Mycoterra Farm mushroom cultivation runs on cellulose substrates the agricultural economy treats as waste (sawdust, straw, agricultural byproducts) — closing a nutrient loop the wholesale system breaks
• Pasture-raised pasture-based animal production is one of regenerative agriculture's core soil-building loops
• Pete's Greens certified-organic + four-season production in the Northeast Kingdom means season-extension infrastructure plus organic protocols — both substrate-builder choices
• Pollinator Corridor field-edge pollinator strips on working farms are the canonical low-cost regenerative practice with measurable yield benefits to pollinator-dependent crops next to the strip
• Poultry Farm mobile-coop poultry behind ruminants is a canonical Salatin-pattern regenerative system
• Root Down Farm multi-species pasture rotation is the canonical pattern for soil-building with poultry alongside larger animals
• Samish Bay Cheese certified-organic pasture-based dairy with a heritage breed reflects the directory's substrate-builder dairy pattern
• Tewes Farm small-flock direct-to-eater poultry is the canonical alternative to industrial broiler/layer operations
• Urban Farm the best urban farms rebuild dead urban soil — compost, cover, no-till — regeneration on land written off as unfarmable
• USDA Organic organic regulates prohibited inputs; regenerative measures soil/ecosystem outcomes — overlapping but not identical, and the strongest farms do both
• Yates Heritage Farm explicit pollinator habitat, beneficial insect work, naturally-trapped bee swarms — regenerative practice woven through the operation, not a marketing label

practices

• Kalopa Fields Farmstead self-described regenerative family farm on the Hāmākua coast
• Pie Ranch regenerative farming methods at the core of the operation
• Providence Farm multi-species regenerative grazing as the management framework
• Rooster Dirt Farm diverse forage-rich mountain pastures, multi-species rotation
• Shirttail Creek Farm managed intensive grazing + cover cropping + animal rotation as the management framework
• Willow Haven Farm regenerative, soil-building practices across vegetable beds and pasture

shares approach with

• 1st Micro Greenery MAEAP-verified (Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program) — third-party verification of environmental management practices
• Bear Fruit Farms transitioning-organic transparency model — operator publishes the specific exceptions to organic methods rather than claiming a certification they don't yet hold
• Blanchard Mountain Farm ecological-restoration land stewardship, hundreds of native PNW plants reintroduced, succession-to-perennials model
• Century Farm a farm that survives 100+ years has, almost by definition, found a way to keep the soil and the family economy productive across generations — regenerative outcomes whether or not the language is used
• Circle Brook Farm explicit regenerative practice; soil-first methods
• Codman Community Farms explicit regenerative-farming methods 'that build diverse ecosystems and healthy soil'
• Dirt to Soil the most-cited working-farmer practitioner text of the contemporary U.S. regenerative-agriculture movement
• Earth Sky Time Community Farm certified organic across vegetables, berries, and value-added; multi-generation continuous production
• Edgewater Farm value-added-from-excess practice: glut crops processed into shelf-stable products rather than left as field-loss
• Farm most directory-listed farms work somewhere on the regenerative spectrum even when they don't use the label
• Gem Orchards Idaho Preferred membership signals commitment to state-defined quality + local-sourcing standards
• Growing Home USDA-certified-organic urban-farm practice — a substantive verification at the federal-organic standard
• Jericho Settlers Farm Real Organic + Vermont Organic certification, soil fertility, water quality, renewable-energy practice
• Living Hope Farm Certified Naturally Grown — peer-reviewed alternative to USDA Organic; non-GMO, environmentally friendly methods
• Market Garden modern market gardens routinely integrate no-dig, cover-cropping, intensive composting, and polyculture; the boundary between market gardening and regenerative agriculture is mostly one of scale
• McEnroe Organic Farm Market founding-1952 organic operation — pre-dates the formal organic-certification movement; helped seed the Northeast organic-farming infrastructure
• Misty Brook Farm Shop rotational grazing across the farm's pastures; certified-organic feed; integrated dairy + meat + grain systems
• Organic Agriculture organic and regenerative overlap heavily in practice but differ in framing — organic is regulatory and input-focused; regenerative is outcome-focused on soil, water, and ecosystem function
• Resilience regenerative practice's central goal is system-level resilience rather than productivity-only optimization
• Source Farms / The Ground Market explicit sourcing from farmers committed to animal welfare and environmental stewardship; pre-curated and fractional-animal-share retail formats
• Turnip Rock Farm & Cosmic Wheel Creamery explicit whole-farm-ecosystem design; livestock provide primary fertility for the vegetable beds; 'nothing goes to waste'
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service USFWS-managed refuges protect ecological systems that surrounding farms depend on (pollinators, watershed function, wildlife corridors) — the public-land complement to private regenerative-ag stewardship
• Zena Farmstead explicit regenerative-agriculture practice and identity

practices

• All Grass Farms Rotational grazing on fresh seasonal pasture; the regenerative-pasture model is the farm's core method.
• Copia Farm stated as earth-regenerating practice; pasture-rotation is the operational form
• K. Farm named explicitly by current operators as the working principle
• Liberty Farms stated regenerative-ag commitment for healthy communities in the Hudson Valley
• Mossy Glen Farm operators describe raising pigs 'in a regenerative manner'
• Waseda Farms Market operator describes 'organic and regenerative methods'

instance of

• Christy Dawn regenerative cotton is the brand's substrate-claim
• Force of Nature Meats regenerative-management claims are the brand's core positioning

shares substrate with

• Ecosystem services regenerative-agriculture practices are explicit ecosystem-service-improving interventions

parallels

• Hemp Cultivation well-managed hemp cultivation aligns with regenerative principles — minimal tillage compatibility, rotation benefits, low chemical input requirement, soil-improving root structure

subset of

• Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems integrated crop-livestock is one of the canonical regenerative-agriculture practices; almost all major regenerative-grain operations integrate livestock

shares approach with

• Allman Farms & Orchards five-generation continuity on the same land is itself a stewardship pattern — knowledge that compounds across the generations who have walked it

enables

• Dirt — The Erosion of Civilizations *Dirt* is a load-bearing reference for the modern regenerative-agriculture and soil-health movements

pioneer of

• Polyface Method Salatin's writing, lecturing, and Polyface tours have been formative for two generations of North American regenerative-livestock farmers

parallels

• Green Revolution regenerative agriculture has emerged in substantial part as the response to Green Revolution problems; the Green Revolution defines what regenerative agriculture is responding to
• William Albrecht substantially anticipated the contemporary regenerative-agriculture movement; the soil-fertility-and-health framework that Albrecht articulated has been substantially adopted by contemporary soil-health practitioners