Regenerative Farming - Better Food - Restored Climate

The more living things in the soil, and the deeper the root systems, the more carbon gets sucked down from the sky. 

Unfortunately, today’s industrial food system supports practices that degrade soil, release carbon, deplete nutrients, and mistreat animals and resources. Extractive farming followed by extracting as much profit as possible, enhancing practices which systematically plowing the soil and spraying it with fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides, results in major problems. According to the UN, global soil has only 60 years left of productivity and continues to release shit-tons of carbon every year.

If farmers switch to renewable farming, reduce tilling, apply compost, plant cover crops, and incorporate animal grazing, we will have healthy soils which could sequester between half and all of the carbon humans emit every year. For this to happen, farmers need funding. Just a few cents from restaurant meals or other food purchases, can contribute to acres of healthy soil and shift us from the extractive “conventional” agricultural system to a regenerative food system. It is not enough to reduce emissions or limit pesticides, it is also necessary to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

How it works:

A few cents from dinners at restaurants, adds up to big investments and more acres of regenerative farming. We can restore underground ecosystems by re-storing carbon in the soil, which removes it from the atmosphere. This improves our food and restores the climate.

- Consumers send 1% of every purchase from a ZFP business.

- ZFP optimally and equitably distributes restore grants to farmers applications for healthy soil projects.

- Local trusted conservation experts estimate the climate benefit, and help implement and verify carbon farming projects.

Together, ZFP restaurants, diners, food brands, and farmers are shifting farmland from climate problem to climate solution. 

- ZFP expanded to Colorado and laid the groundwork for expansion into Georgia and the Northeast. 

- International affiliates in Asia, Germany and the Nordic region. 

- ZFP added business members in new sectors: wine, online retail, compost, packaged goods and more. 

- ZFP formalized the “Supporter” category and began corporate engagement with support from Clover Sonoma, Oatly, Eco-Products, Whole Foods, CLIF Bar, Tillamook and more. 

- ZFP secured their first contracts with regional governments, launching their work on optimizing CA’s rapidly expanding compost market, in response to the onset of SB1383. As the radical expansion of the compost industry continues, ZFP expects many collaborations around regional carbon farming and compost.