Habitat Restoration and Agriculture

Here are some of the climate-smart practices we are already doing and are planning on expanding within the next 5 years including but not limited to: 

• Cover crops, no-till, nutrient management, enhanced efficiency fertilizers, manure management, buffers, wetlands, and grassland management, and tree planting on working lands, agroforestry and afforestation on working lands

• Afforestation/reforestation and sustainable forest management, planting for high carbon sequestration rates, maintaining and improving forest and agricultural soil quality, increasing on-site carbon storage through forest stand management, climate smart pasture practices, soil amendments like biochar. 

• Hedgerow fencing between pastures for biodiversity and runoff reduction

• Wildlife corridors for habitat protection and biodiversity

• Conversion to solar energy for irrigation and greenhouse temperature control

• Maximizing green water use such as rainwater catchment and harvesting for irrigation, using berms and swales to slow and distribute surface water

• Gravity and solar fed RDI (Regulated Deficit Irrigation)

• Weed, pest and fire control using livestock and poultry and intensive rotational grazing