Regenerative agriculture supports community water quality
Our water systems and water quality are greatly impacted by our country's farming practices. In short, regenerative agriculture cleans water!
When farmers farm using natural, regenerative practices, they don’t have to use chemical fertilizers, herbicides & pesticides. All of which are nasty chemicals that you do not want in your local water supply. Unfortunately, as soil health degrades year by year nationally, the reliance on these chemicals (to replace what the soil should have in it) has been going up and up, polluting local water quality and water supplies all over. Seriously… gross.
Conventional Farming: Erosion & Chemical Leaching
What’s worse, industrially-managed soil is bad at absorbing rainfall. So rain runs right off those freshly-sprayed crops, it onto the hard surface of the land, and - you guessed it - into the local rivers. These go downstream and cause all manner of havoc in lakes & the oceans.
Regenerative Farming: Water Absorption & Topsoil Retention
Regeneratively managed soil, on the other hand, absorbs MUCH more water. So, in the event of heavy rains like we saw this last summer, these farms play a key role in protecting whole communities from agricultural runoff contamination.
Supporting Long Table means you’re enabling us to invest in these amazing farmers who refuse to take short-cuts. They can’t stay in business unless companies like ours purchase their yields (tasty tasty grains, in our case). So, who’s hungry for pancakes?
