Balanced Regeneration on an Irrigated Forage Farm

At his farm in Picture Butte, Eric Leffers is experimenting with regeneration. In this blog post, Eric speaks to the complexities of regenerative practices, his experiments and learnings with polycultures and balancing all of this with sound economics.

EP66 Polycultures

Have you ever found yourself scratching your head trying to make sense of all those terms like polycultures, cocktail crops, intercropping, cover crops, companion cropping, and relay crops? It’s understandable! They all seem to be part of the vast landscape of good land stewardship practices, like sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, agroecology, permaculture, and regenerative agriculture. Oh, and let’s not forget our personal favorite—agricultural climate solutions. But here’s the thing: are these different systems truly distinct, or are they more closely related than we think?