How Regenerative Systems Save the Soil, Animals & You

… you’ll learn why regenerative methods for taking care of soil and raising animals provide a solution that creates food sovereignty, improves human health, and helps reverse climate change.

Previous episodes of this podcast featured regenerative farming and soil conservation topics. Dave Asprey keeps the conversation going because when you know what’s happening and what companies are doing about this problem, you can be informed and take action to support regeneration efforts in your own way.

Robby Sansom, co-founder and CEO of Force of Nature, joins the show to talk about the new developments igniting real change.

His roots run deep in the natural food community, caring for soil and caring for animals. He spent much of the last decade studying regenerative agriculture at ranches all over the world. Through this education, he helped found the Austin, Texas-based regeneratively sourced meat company, Force of Nature. The company’s building brand new global supply chains of grass-fed and regeneratively managed livestock. Force of Nature works in partnership with land stewards, ranchers and farmers committed to creating a positive return on the planet.

There’s an undeniable sense of urgency about the state of soil and its ability to provide enough food for a growing population. Key soil health indicators include organic matter, carbon concentration, water permeability, and other biological markers. The five principles of soil health include:

• Minimize Mechanical & Chemical Soil Disturbance
• Keep Soil Covered
• Increase Biodiversity
• Living Roots Year Round
• Integrate Animals (good poop!)

Over more than a hundred years of conventional farming and ranching depleted land and disrupted natural ecosystems. These harms (have and continue to) adversely affect animal and human health. Force of Nature focuses on repair and regeneration—in their own operations and by educating farmers and ranchers from homesteaders to big corporations.

“A regenerative system actually regenerates and rebuilds that resiliency and maintains it in a way where it can actually continue to produce food,” Robby explains. “Our current system being this extractive industrial model, it has a shelf life. It is so extractive to the point of, it will not be able to work for us in producing food in the future.”