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.
Root Growth
This learning journey explores how roots impact crop yields and quality, soil health and structure, and so much more.
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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, Livestock Integration/Grazing
This resource shares the experiences, insights, and advice of ROO farmers on livestock integration, highlighting their unique experiments, methods, and practices that supported their soilโs health and built on-farm resilience.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Business/Economics, Cropping/Rotations, Regenerative Mindset
"Here we assess the current status of knowledge on factors that determine yield, yield stability and resource use efficiency of intercropping as compared to sole cropping."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Pest Management, Regenerative Mindset
"We investigated the relationship between plant diversity and aboveground obligate parasitic fungal pathogen (โpathogensโ hereafter) diversity and infection in grasslands of a long-term, large-scale, biodiversity experiment with varying plant species (1โ60 species) and plant functional group diversity (1โ4 groups)."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Pest Management
"Through a global meta-analysis of 2,914 observations from 351 studies, we found that increased plant species richness reduced herbivore abundance and damage but increased predator and parasitoid abundance, predation, parasitism and overall plant performance. "
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy, Water Cycle
"Legume-cereal intercropping is well known in traditional dry land agriculture. Here, we tested whether finger millet, a shallow-rooted cereal, can profit from neighboring pigeon pea, a deep-rooted legume, in the presence of โbiofertilizationโ with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), under drought conditions."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Energy Flow and Carbon, Livestock Integration/Grazing
In this study, Schrama et al. "used 12 montane grassland sites along an 800 km northโsouth gradient across the UK, to test whether cessation of grazing affects local ฮฑ- and ฮฒ-diversity of below-ground food webs."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Energy Flow and Carbon, Livestock Integration/Grazing
"Here, we used in situ isotope pulse-chase methodology paired with plant and soil sampling to link plant carbon allocation patterns with SOC pools in replicated long-term grazing exclosures in subtropical pasture in Florida, USA."
Disturbance/Disruption/Tillage, Regenerative Mindset
Charles Noble developed a blade designed to cut through the soil and sever weed roots while minimizing soil disturbance. Read this resource to learn about his inspiration and invention.
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Regenerative Mindset, Roots/Rhizosphere/Rhizophagy
"Here, in both a glasshouse and a long-term field study, we show that high plant diversity in grassland systems increases soil aggregate stability, a vital structural property of soil, and that root traits play a major role in determining diversity effects."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Regenerative Mindset
"Here, we find that restoration of late-successional grassland plant diversity leads to accelerating annual carbon storage rates that, by the second period (years 13โ22), are 200% greater in our highest diversity treatment than during succession at this site, and 70% greater than in monocultures. "
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Regenerative Mindset
"By conducting a global meta-analysis with paired observations of plant mixtures and monocultures from 106 studies, we show that microbial biomass, bacterial biomass, fungal biomass, fungi:bacteria ratio, and microbial respiration increase, while Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacteria ratio decrease in response to plant mixtures."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Regenerative Mindset
"Catch crops increase plant species richness in crop rotations, but are most often grown as pure stands. Here, we investigate the impacts of increasing plant diversity in catch crop rotations on rhizosphere C input and microbial utilization."