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 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.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Soil is a complex, living ecosystem that supports plant growth, regulates environmental processes, and sustains agricultural production. It is home to an immense diversity of organisms that influence soil structure, fertility, and resilience. Learn more about it in this resource.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
Seeking a better understanding of the processes involved in creating compaction as well as strategies to overcome high tillage processes? In this section, take a look at the root response to compaction and learn about some plants that can be integrated to help with this serious issue.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
By applying your knowledge of roots alongside regenerative principles, you can build resilience in your soil so that your crops are better equipped to deal with climatic conditions. Roots have a powerful role to play in soil regeneration and in this section, we will look at the ways that diversity, livestock integration and armouring the soil facilitate the process of regenerating soil health.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
Climate change is having an ever-increasing impact on crop production, from increases in heatwaves, to fewer days of frost and less rainfall that comes in heavy bursts. This presentation delves into the effects of heat stress and flooding on plant root systems.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
Roots are fundamental to soil health and its functionality. They contribute to soil structure by creating channels and pores as they grow, providing more access for water to infiltrate and microbes to thrive. Learn more in this resource.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
Annuals and perennials have evolved different root strategies due to their life cycles, with annuals typically establishing fibrous roots and perennials often establishing tap roots. Learn more in this short resource.
Energy Flow and Carbon, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
Roots play a vital role in plant survival by transporting water and nutrients to the above-ground organs and depositing root exudates into the rhizosphere. Their biomass and surface area often surpass those of the visible (above ground) parts of the plant. Learn more about the mysterious world of roots in this presentation.
Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Nutrients/Fertility
This resource shares the experiences, insights, and advice of Regenerative Organic Oats farmers on nutrient cycling, highlighting multiple perspectives and approaches to incorporating nutrient cycling in a regenerative organic system. Explore this resource to gain first-hand insights into real-life scenarios and discover approaches that might be a perfect fit for your own context.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Livestock Integration/Grazing, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
"In this webinar, Kara Kroeger, Regenerative Practice Consultant at Grassroots Carbons, explains how to improve your skills as a chlorophyll manager by understanding the ins and outs of using a Brix Refractometer to improve your pasture management.