Can Small-Scale, Regenerative Farms Feed the World?

"The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
—Wendell Berry

Can small-scale, regenerative farms feed the world?

That's a question that floats around in the public square. The underlying concern seems to be whether regenerative farming is simply for idealists.

The fact is that the current industrial, large-scale food system is fragile (as we're seeing with eggs right now). Calories are artificially cheap while critical nutrients are continually eroded away with the soil.

Here's the rub: We're more concerned with feeding our neighbors well than feeding the world poorly.

Our farm is part of a tsunami of small farms restoring healthy soil and productive plots of land a little at a time. While we do it, we feed our families and the communities that support the work. This is not only sustainable, but easily replicated, and how the world can feed itself with nutrient-dense, geographically appropriate food.

We see it as a return to our mandate back in Genesis 2. You could call that idealistic. Or you could call it obedience.