Resource Library
COG’s Regenerative Organic Hub Resource Library is an open access resource where you can find insightful reports, webinar recordings, and educational tools to help you build your knowledge and confidence all along your regenerative organic farming journey. Explore one of our curated step-by-step learning journeys, or scroll below to browse or search for resources to support you wherever you are on your regenerative organic journey!
Learning Journeys
Our learning journeys are curated collections of educational content, designed to help you acquire knowledge and skills on a specific topic. To use the learning journeys to their full benefit, please follow along the steps detailed in each learning journey.
Start a learning journey and dive deeper into one of these regenerative organic topics:
Small Water Cycle
This learning journey explores the small water cycle and highlights its essential role in effective land management.
Principles of Regenerative Agriculture
This learning journey delves into the principles of regenerative agriculture and how integrating them into management decisions enhances soil health.
Ecological Processes
This learning journey examines the vital influence of ecological processes on farms and agricultural landscapes.
Rhizophagy
This learning journey dives into the intricate process of rhizophagy, which is one of a plant’s primary mechanisms for nutrient cycling.
Crop Rotation
This learning journey explores crop rotation – a critical practice in regenerative organic farm management that supports increased soil health, biodiversity, and nutrient cycling.
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Every resource in the Resource Library below involves the discussion of one or more of the ecological processes. Below is a legend of icons to help you discover how each resource relates to the unique processes that are key characteristics of regenerative organic agriculture.
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Regenerative Mindset
"This paper presents a framework for exploring the regenerative potential of food systems, focusing on how food systems activities and technologies are organized rather than the specific technologies or practices being employed."
Energy Flow and Carbon
This video explores the reasons why soil organic matter really matters in soil science.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Energy Flow and Carbon
Check out this webinar from the British Society of Soil Science where experts in the field discuss soil organic matter.
Energy Flow and Carbon
"Darren and Brian Hefty explain the importance of organic matter and how to improve levels in your soil."
Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Check out this resource to discover ten tips for using a refractometer and collecting Brix measurements.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle, Weeds
Read this article by Fernandez et al. to find out how intercropping legumes and cereals decreases weed populations in drier than average soil conditions in a semi-arid region of the Canadian Prairies.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle, Weeds
Read this article by Fernandez et al. to learn about the effects of intercropping legumes and cereals in drier than average conditions in a semi-arid region of the Canadian Prairies on the nutrient density of the following cereal crop.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Pest Management
Here's an article by John Kempf who shares that "the practical outworkings of how understanding Eh-pH homeostasis improves crop protection."
Energy Flow and Carbon, Pest Management
Check out this article written by John Kempf in 2025, where he describes how "the health of a plant is entirely defined by its ability to respond to oxidative stress and to maintain an internal state of electrical balance."
Regenerative Mindset
This resource shares the experiences, insights, and advice of ROO farmers on garden trials, highlighting their unique experiments that tested out certain regenerative organic practices. Explore this resource to gain first-hand insights into real-life scenarios and discover how garden trials might be a perfect fit for your own context.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Organism generalists and specialists in our soils ensure a continuous process of ecological succession, leading to the development of diverse and resilient soil ecosystems. They also provide important ecosystem services. Learn more about the life beneath our feet in this resource.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Soil organisms can be categorized based on their ecological functions. There are decomposers: bacteria and fungi. There are nutrient cyclers: protozoa and nematodes. There are multitaskers: arthropods. And don't forget the engineers: earthworms and other burrowers. Learn more about them all in this resource.