ALT IMPORTANCE OF SOIL MICROBES Beneficial soil microbes perform essential functions: • Enhance nutrient cycling. • Break down organic waste and residues. • Make nutrients available to plants. • Stimulate plant growth. • Fix nitrogen via nodules of rhizobacteria. • Help detoxify pesticides. • Suppress plant pathogen and insect pests. • Improve stress tolerance. • Assist soil aggregation, porosity, and water retention. • Play a key role in carbon sequestration. Learn more: www.csuchico.edu/regenerativeagriculture #CRARS #regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth

ALT We salute the labor of our farmers! Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. —Wendell Berry #CRARS #regenerativeagriculture #LaborDay

ALT Scientific Literature Review of Regenerative Agriculture Definitions, Practices, and Outcomes Prepared by the Natural Resources Defense Council for the CDFA Science Advisory Panel 12/22/2022