Caring for the land
is caring for ourselves
Imagine rural landscapes
that provide for all of us.
Profitable farms cultivating healthy people; thriving, diverse communities; clean water, flood reduction, stable climate, and biodiversity are possible.
Restorative agriculture and the
movement to make it happen is
It starts with innovative farmers producing wholesome milk and meat and other products from grasslands that build soil, clean water, help stabilize the climate, and support wildlife. It builds momentum with consumer demand for products and services from grassland farming, but requires policies incentivizing transformative change and processors, suppliers, and distributors who build-out innovative and profitable value-added supply-chains.
We all have a role to play in Grassland 2.0 and
we cannot leave anyone behind.
We must push and pull our agricultural system to transformative change!
Here’s what you can do:
1. Eaters
Stimulate demand for grassland products! We must increase the demand for milk, meat, cheese, and other products that regenerate soils, clean water bodies, slow runoff, reduce greenhouse gases, and create wildlife habitat.
2. Citizens
Demand that policymakers address social and environmental problems with transformative, NOT incremental, change.
3. Policy Makers
Develop programs that incentivize transformative, NOT incremental, change. We must have policies that improve food security especially for those with troubles feeding their families and ways for farmers to sell their products to consumers that provide them.
4. Food processors & distributors
Search and develop new markets and profit strategies that reward all supply-chain participants for positive social and environmental outcomes.
5. Farm-Input Suppliers
Develop and market products that do not degrade the environment and help restore productive grasslands that retain nutrients and build soil health.
6. Farmers
Look for opportunities to convert row crops to perennial pastures in various livestock classes (e.g., grazing heifers) and parts of the landscape (e.g., stream buffers). Push processors and suppliers to promote these practices as part of product marketing.
7. Academics
Listen and respond to communities to develop models of what’s possible in landscapes, supply chains, farm enterprises, and governance.
8. Everyone
Join the conversation! Share your ideas and passion about how we build-out Grassland 2.0!
We are working to bring people together
The Grassland 2.0 project is a result of decades of research showing that our best, and perhaps only, opportunity to build soils, nutrients, and carbon in agricultural production while providing farmers and society with profitable and productive outcomes is with grazed perennial grasslands.
We are working to inspire people to come together to identify how we can achieve these outcomes, create spaces for a process of Collaborative Landscape Design, and grow the Grassland 2.0 movement by engaging with coalitions working toward an agriculture that works for all of us!
What can grasslands do for us?
Make farms
profitable
Improve the
environment
Support healthy people
and communities