In this episode Reginaldo Haslet-Marroquin, President and CEO of Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, and Rodrigo Cala, owner of  Cala Farm and Owner-member/Secretary of Shared Ground Farmers’ Cooperative dive into the idea of regenerative agriculture as a system of energy management. From developing a regenerative business model, to using science to balance energy while farming, to how this plays out within the community, they explain some of the practices and principles they use to manage the health of the soil as well as the health of products in the marketplace. Reginaldo describes this as a way of working with nature, rather than trying to conquer it. Reginaldo and Rodrigo also discuss their work with immigrant and Latino farmers, helping them build business strategies to take them from doing cheap (or underpaid) work to being creative, getting ahead of market trends, and having such a secure system that they can last through economic hardships such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full episode transcript available here.