Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the amazing story of converting Brown's Ranch from conventional to regenerative agriculture, and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to restoring the soil by laying out and explaining his “five principles of soil health,” which are:

• Limited Disturbance
• Armor
• Diversity
• Living Roots
• Integrated Animals

The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over twenty years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil. Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown’s Ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only twenty years! The 5,000-acre ranch profitably produces a wide variety of cash crops and cover crops as well as grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured laying hens, broilers, and pastured pork, all marketed directly to consumers.