Did you know your health conscious decisions can help to keep the planet healthy? By sourcing food from regenerative farmers, you’re helping to sustain the eco-system.
Our eatTelfit regenerative farmers are at the forefront of agricultural farming. We’re dedicated to restoring soil health, increasing biodiversity, and enhancing eco-system resilience. By prioritising practices like cover cropping, crop rotation, reduced tillage, and holistic grazing, we’re able to rebuild organic matter and improve soil fertility.
Regenerative farming is all about minimising the use of synthetic inputs like pesticides and fertilisers, which in turn reduces greenhouse gas emissions, sequesters carbon, and improves water retention. Our techniques also support pollinators and wildlife by encouraging biodiversity.
But beyond environmental benefits, regenerative farming enhances productivity and profitability while promoting food security. The food produced is more than organic; it’s sustainable and strengthens the environment.
On that note; let’s delve into this topic a little bit more as we explore why regenerative farming means healthier food on your plate.
Healthy Soil Matters
Flourishing soil is key to producing healthy, nutritious food. From nutrient dense crops to our eatTelfit wild venison, healthy soil is the foundation for sustainable agriculture and the production of healthy food. With a few important yet simple methods, regenerative farming is changing the way we eat:
- Reduced Tillage: Tilling disrupts the microbial communities within the soil which are critical for nutrient processing. By eliminating tilling, the soil maintains its structure and microbes, reducing the loss of nutrients.
- Cover Cropping: Cover crops enrich the soil with organic matter and, through their roots, they feed the soil with microbiome. Planted during off-seasons, these crops prevent erosion, suppress weeds, and enhance nutrient availability.
- Crop Rotation: Rotating crops helps to break pest and disease cycles and prevent nutrient depletion while improving soil fertility. Different crops have different contributions and alternating them provides the soil with a balanced profile.
- Less Chemicals: Regenerative farmers rely on compost and animal manure to add organic material and replenish essential nutrients, reducing reliance on synthetic fertilisers.
- Holistic Grazing: Instead of keeping livestock in one place, our animals are moved across fields in planned rotations. This practice leads to soil aeration, increasing organic matter through manure, and encouraging plant regrowth.
Our practices work harmoniously together to create the rich biologically active soil that produces healthy plants and, in turn, wholesome, flavourful meat. Regenerative farming provides us with nutrient-dense food that contains higher concentrations of vitamins, minerals, and beneficial compounds.
When we restore the soil’s natural fertility and foster a thriving ecosystem, eatTelfit farmers produce healthier, more sustainable food. Not only does this benefit our consumers but also the planet, as our regenerative methods mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity, and ensure long-term agricultural productivity.
Restoring the Eco-System a Little at a Time
With a 650-acre farm at our disposable, eatTelfit farmers are constantly working towards improving the planet we inhabit. With livestock on rotation, diverse planting and minimal tillage we’re able to maintain the health of our soil, helping to improve the environment. We’re assisting the landscape and ecosystem we live amongst with regenerative farming, paving the way to a brighter future.
