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, 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 13–22), 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."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Mineral/Nutrient Cycle, Regenerative Mindset
"There is a need to develop agricultural practices that mobilize sparingly soluble soil phosphorus (P) due to increasing scarcity of P fertilizer. Interactions of different plant species in the rhizosphere might increase P mobilization, but the underlying mechanisms are still not fully understood."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Pest Management, Regenerative Mindset
The goal of this study is to "review the effects of temperate arable multiple-crop systems on belowground processes within the plant-soil system, considering competition, soil microbial composition and structure, weed, pest and disease control, nutrient cycling, organic matter and soil structural dynamics."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Pest Management, Regenerative Mindset
"This review synthesises current evidence for belowground plant-plant interactions of competition, niche differentiation and facilitation, with the aim of identifying root traits that influence the processes contributing to enhanced performance of intercrops compared with monocultures."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Cropping/Rotations, Regenerative Mindset
"We discuss how recent knowledge from agronomy, plant physiology and ecology can be combined with the aim of improving intercropping systems."
Business/Economics, Regenerative Mindset
"In this review, we examine the debate surrounding the role for organic agriculture in future food production systems."
Regenerative Mindset
This resource package contains the video, audio, slide deck, and curated notes for the session "Introduction to Regenerative Organic Agriculture" with Ruth Knight
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Pest Management, Regenerative Mindset
"This chapter highlights soil-plant relationships, plant growth and microorganisms, microbial diversity, nutrient cycling, and nutrient pathways and mechanisms."
Biodiversity/Community Dynamics/Diversity, Pest Management, Regenerative Mindset
"The present review aims to examine and discuss the shift in microbial population structure due to current agricultural practices and focuses on the development of a sustainable agricultural system employing the tremendous untapped potential of the microbial world."