Be part of a movement championing the nutritional advantages of regenerative agriculture.

Nourished Soil = More Nutritious Food = Healthier People

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Regenerative agriculture is more than just a set of farming practices — it’s a systems-based approach that centers soil health as the key to solving interconnected challenges in food, climate, water, and community resilience.

Rooted in Indigenous knowledge and continuously informed by both holistic land management and modern science, regenerative agriculture focuses on restoring and enhancing the natural cycles of carbon, water, and nutrients. It draws from the wisdom of farmers and land stewards who have cultivated abundance for millennia, while embracing innovation and context-specific decision-making.

Unlike conventional agriculture, regenerative farming prioritizes continuous improvement. Farmers adapt their methods based on ecological feedback, soil testing, and the unique conditions of their land. This approach values diversity, inclusivity, and shared learning — welcoming farmers and ranchers at every stage of their journey.

When practiced with integrity and accountability — including through third-party verification — regenerative agriculture has the potential to grow more nutritious food, store carbon, clean water, support biodiversity, and strengthen rural economies and ecosystems.

While the interest in regenerative agriculture has gained recent attention, the practices that characterize regenerative farming today have been used within Indigenous systems for millennia.

Practices that are foundational to regenerative agriculture including, but not limited to tillage reduction, crop rotation, intercropping, rotational grazing, cover cropping, and agroforestry, all emerged in pre-colonial Indigenous communities.

Any final definition should also consider previously silenced Indigenous epistemologies around the world and be rooted in values of reciprocity, respect, collective well-being, knowledge co-creation, and (re)localization.

Reference: Sands et al. (2023). Moving towards an anti-colonial definition for regenerative agriculture. Agric Hum Values. Read —>

Our purpose is to ignite awareness and mobilize action around the nutritional benefits and improved food quality of soil-building regenerative agriculture in order to drive demand for a more sustainable food system and improve human health outcomes.

We see nutrient density as the presence of higher levels of beneficial nutrients that support human health, found in foods that are low in — or free from — industrial chemicals, additives, and ultra-processed ingredients known to compromise well-being. These nutritional qualities are strongly influenced by how food is grown and the agricultural practices used in its production. Research suggests that foods and food products produced using regenerative and traditional farming methods which build healthy soil and biodiverse ecosystems tend to be more nutrient dense.

Our Nutrient Density Initiative is made up of key players and pioneers in the food and agricultural system, including food brands, food industry leaders, nutrition/health professionals, and farmers working to ensure a more nutritious and nutrient rich food supply.

Nutrient Density Resources

click here to learn more and expand your knowledge in the leading edges of research and projects in this area.

"I wanted to reach out and thank you for your amazing work and organizing efforts with the NDI. I learn so much at these meetings and I have fun! Whenever I have "those moments" where I wonder where regenerative ag is really going to move the needle, I find myself coming back to the work of the NDI, and am so excited [we] can contribute. "

—NDI Member

Let’s work together to:

meaningfully define nutrient density in food and activate eater demand — using that demand as a primary lever for food system transformation, including deep regenerative agriculture practices, in service of planetary wellbeing.