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.
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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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Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations
Cover crops are part of a crop rotation system and are typically planted between cash crops to improve soil health. Why should you incorporate them and when? Learn more in this resource from COG.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations
Planting different species and varieties from multiple plant families during the same growing season is a strategy producers can use to increase diversity in their land management practices. Learn more about this approach - called intercropping - in this resource from COG.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations
Crop rotation is the practice of planting different crops or crop families (such as cereals, oilseeds, legumes, broadleaf plants, and root crops) in a field from year to year, introducing time-based diversity through plant variation. Find out more about this important practice in this resource from COG.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cover Crop, Cropping/Rotations
Allelopathy can be a strong positive mechanism used to manage inter-plant competition and suppress weeds. It can also create in-field challenges. Knowing the
effects that plants may have on each other is important in crop management. Read this resource from COG to learn more about Allelopathy.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations
In nature, monoculture doesn’t exist. Diversity is inherent in every thriving ecosystem. Regenerative organic agriculture seeks to reflect this natural balance by mimicking natural systems and working with nature, not against it. Read this presentation from COG to learn more about the importance of Diversity
Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Read this incredible article to discover the nuances of comparing organic and conventional farming when discussing nutrient composition in crops.
Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Check out this blog post by Regenerative Farmers of America that discusses the potential of regenerative practices to improve soil health and increase nutrient density in crops.
Livestock Integration/Grazing, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
"Have you heard the phrase “manure is the gift that keeps on giving”? It refers to many different aspects of manure, but the gift of nitrogen is one of them."
Regenerative Mindset
"Living the Change is a free feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way."
Mineral/Nutrient Cycle
Here is an episode of The Permaculture Podcast that features Nigel Palmer, author of The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments, where he discusses various garden amendments like foliar sprays, fertilizers, and soil drenches.
Water Cycle
"By understanding a little about the soil's physical properties and its relationship to soil moisture, you can make better soil-management decisions."
Water Cycle
Check out this article from Successful Farming that discusses the detrimental consequences of ponding on crops.