Slow Money Journal, Winter 2017/18

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The section on the left was grazed by the animals in the rotation, and the section on the right wasn’t.

Be a pioneer in your community: Support carbon farmers, ask your grocer for regenerative food, and talk to your legislators about regenerative agriculture. Be a part of the cycle. Learn more at RegenerationInternational.org. Jesse McDougall and his wife, Caroline, own and operate Studio Hill—a pasture-based regenerative farm—on their family’s fourth-generation farm in southern Vermont. In 2012, Jesse and Caroline began transitioning their farm away from conventional practices to regenerative, organic practices—mainly mob grazing with sheep and poultry, no-till annual vegetables, fruit orchards, and beekeeping. In 2017, the team at Studio Hill began developing a 4.5-acre perennial food forest on land that was formerly clear-cut for timber. In 2015 and 2016, Jesse helped to write and introduce legislation that would promote regenerative agricultural practices within Vermont.

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