Keeling Curve

Project Summary / Description:

Soil is paramount to our planet‚ health, yet it is often overlooked as a viable and inexpensive way to sequester atmospheric carbon. Agricultural impacts on our soil may be the most critical and underreported measure of our planet‚ sustainability. Regenerative agricultural practices that create a net sink for atmospheric carbon are possible, however, the lack of a fair marketplace is often a deterrent for many farmers to grow regeneratively. 

Our project is proposing to directly connect brands to regenerative agricultural products through bypassing commodity markets. This soil-based marketplace would give farmers an avenue to compete with commodity markets while filling a marketplace hole for brands seeking to clean up their supply chains. 

We propose to use the Keeling Curve Prize to develop the methodology for annual soil and farm audits, to strengthen our regenerative farmer education program, to create a database for collecting our baseline and annual testing results and to create a comprehensive research proposal that would study how implementing regenerative grazing practices improves native prairie ecosystem diversity and increases plant biomass leading to a greater increase of SOM while maximizing photosynthesis and carbon sequestration. 

Our long-term goal is to create a system for educating and auditing regenerative farmers and to enter them into our marketing database. This marketing database would list regenerative agricultural products that brands would assess to find products that are farmed to sequester carbon. Once brands have a tool that allows them to evaluate products created with regenerative practices, they can begin to reward climate-friendly choices in the marketplace.

Best Estimate of GHG Avoidance/Reduction of This Project (Tonnes CO2 Equivalent/Year):

Mission Statement:

Founded in 2015, Central Grazing Company is a regenerative food and fiber company with lamb meat and leather as our main products. We are committed to regenerative farming methods that allow us to help balance our planet‚ carbon cycle and provide peaceful, calm and natural lives to our flocks. We support regional supply chains, a living wage to our workers and we pay a fair price to our shepherds. We are dedicated to creating zero-waste products and keeping every step of our production, from farming to manufacturing, transparent. Central Grazing Company ensures that the food and fiber products we create have a positive impact on our soil and our social and economic health.

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