Patch Farm
100 acres328 Stagecoach, Brome, Québec, J0E1K0Meagan Patch
Regenerative agriculture is the application of a variety of practices that favour soil health and includes the integration of a variety of animal and plant species, cover cropping, crop rotations, and in most cases excludes tte use of chemical inputs.
Products
- Beef
- Pork
- Chicken
- Turkey
- Eggs
Regenerative Practices
- Minimize soil disturbance
- Permanent grassland A parcel of land composed primarily of herbaceous grasses, including perennials and native plant species, which can be used for grazing, forage, or biomass production.
- Permanent grassland
- Keep the soil covered and maintain living roots year-round
- Organic mulch Organic mulch involves covering the soil surface with a protective barrier to increase soil health, reduce soil erosion, and suppress weeds. the mulch can be composed of various organic materials such as straw, leaves, or compost.
- Organic mulch
- Protect and enhance biodiversity
- Habitat conservation/creation/restoration The conservation, creation, and restoration of ecosystems to improve habitat value for wildlife. forests, prairies, riparian areas, or wetlands can be restored along farmland.
- Habitat conservation/creation/restoration
- Preserve and restore natural ecosystems
- Maintain living roots year-round (agroforestry and perennials)
- Silvopasture The planned and managed integration of livestock, trees, and forage in a farm system.
- Riparian buffers Mixed woody and non-woody species planted along the edges of bodies of water (streams, rivers, lakes, or ponds).
- Silvopasture
- Integrate animals on the lands and ensure their welfare
- Adaptive multi-paddock grazing Adaptive multi-paddock (amp) grazing is a regenerative grazing system in which livestock are grazed in small paddocks and are moved frequently, resulting in short but intense grazing intervals. the system of multiple small paddocks means that cattle do not circle back to a pasture for a long period of time, allowing for long pasture recovery periods. the word “adaptive” in amp means adapting the duration of livestock on a pasture according to forage availability and the weather, all in the goal of avoiding overgrazing and overstocking.
- Bale grazing Feeding livestock by placing hay bales directly on pasture during fall or winter, allowing animals to graze in place while naturally distributing manure and nutrients.
- Pastured pigs or poultry The managed integration of pigs or poultry on pasture.
- Multi-species grazing A grazing system in which multiple species of livestock (cattle, sheep, chickens, etc.) are grazed on the same area of land, either at the same time or following one another in the rotation.
- Adaptive multi-paddock grazing
- Improve water cycles
- Optimize input use
- Manure Manure (also known as livestock manure) is a type of soil amendment rich in nitrogen that integrates soil organic matter back into the soil and feeds the soil food web.
- Minimal to no use of synthetic pesticides Any product, device, organism, substance or thing that is manufactured, represented, sold or used as a means for directly or indirectly controlling, preventing, destroying, mitigating, attracting or repelling any pest (health canada, 2024).\r\nin canada, the most used pesticide active ingredient types are glyphosate, 2,4-d, glufosinate ammonium, and mcpa (all herbicides). then, there are also insecticides and fungicides such as chlorpyrifos, clothianidin, or chlorothalonil.
- Minimal to no use of synthetic fertilizers Fertilizers that are derived from synthetic sources. \r\nas plants extract nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur are the four most important nutrients) from the soil during every growing season, they must be replenished through fertilizers, manure, legume cover crops (through nitrogen fixing), and compost added to fields annually.
- Manure
Observations
- Return of certain species
- Increase in population of some species
- Improved fertility
How to buy
- Through a cooperative and directly at the farm
