How Regenerative Agriculture Can Fix Our Health, Our Food System, And Our Planet with Gabe Brown

<p>How Regenerative Agriculture Can Fix Our Health, Our Food System, And Our Planet | This episode is brought to you by <a href="https://ButcherBox.com/farmacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ButcherBox</a> and the <a href="https://getfarmacy.com/peganshake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pegan Shake</a></p><br><p>It can be easy to forget where our food really comes from. The overflowing shelves in the supermarket may trick you into thinking food just appears. The reality is that strong healthy soils are the foundation for food production, and without them, we can’t survive.&nbsp;</p><br><p>That’s why we need to shift our agricultural focus from growing commodity mono-crops like soy, corn, and wheat into a diversified system that encourages soil health, biodiversity, and sustainability for future generations. This is what regenerative agriculture is all about.&nbsp;</p><br><p>On this episode of <em>The Doctor’s Farmacy</em>, I was so happy to sit down and talk with Gabe Brown, one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our resources. Gabe and his family own and operate Brown's Ranch, a diversified 5,000-acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. The ranch consists of several thousand acres of native perennial rangeland along with perennial pastureland and cropland. Their ranch focuses on farming and ranching in nature's image.</p><br><p>The Browns holistically integrate their grazing and no-till cropping systems, which include a wide variety of cash crops, multi-species cover crops, and grass-finished beef and lamb. They also raise pastured laying hens, broilers, and swine. This diversity and integration has regenerated the natural resources on the ranch without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides. Gabe and Brown's Ranch have received many forms of recognition for their work, including a Growing Green Award from the Natural Resource Defense Council, an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen'