Change the way you grow food.

Six regenerative practices you can put to work this season — three for growers just breaking ground, three for people who’ve been farming a while. Plain steps, no jargon, nothing you need to buy.

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What’s in the guide

Six practices, sorted by how deep you already are.

Regenerative farming isn’t one big overhaul. It’s a handful of decisions about what you feed the soil and what you leave alone. Start where you are — the first three work in a raised bed, the last three scale to a field.

Topsoil · 0–4 in

If you’re just breaking ground

Start a compost pile

Kitchen scraps, yard waste, and manure turn into a nutrient-rich mix your beds will actually use. The guide covers what goes in and what stays out.

Plant no-till

Seed straight into existing soil or mulch instead of turning it over. Less erosion, and the fungi and worms doing your fertility work stay where they are.

Grow more than one thing

Rotate crops and interplant polycultures. Mixed roots feed different soil life, and pests have a much harder time settling in.

Root zone · 4–12 in

If you’ve been at this a while

Put in cover crops

Clover, vetch, or rye hold the soil in place, keep moisture where roots can reach it, and hand nutrients back when they’re terminated.

Brew your own LAB fertilizer

Lactic acid bacteria, made at home from a few pantry ingredients. Spray it on leaves, pour it into the soil, or use it to charge up the compost pile.

Plant natives and flowers

Native flora pulls in pollinators and widens the range of insects on your ground. A fuller ecosystem handles pest pressure so you don’t have to.

Why it’s worth the change

Conventional growing spends the soil. Regenerative growing builds it back.

Ground that holds water

Soil with structure and organic matter takes rain in instead of shedding it. That’s fewer waterings and a crop that rides out a dry stretch.

Less to buy every spring

Compost, cover crops, and a homemade ferment do work you’d otherwise pay for in bagged fertilizer and sprays.

Better every season

These practices compound. Year three is easier than year one, because the soil is doing more of the work.

Who’s behind it

It starts in the soil and it ends at the table.

The Layton Table grows food the way it was grown before it got complicated — feeding the soil first and letting the crop follow. Everything in this guide is practiced on our own ground, and kept only if it earned its place.

“Good food starts in the soil. Everything after that is just paying attention.”

Regenerative Farming: Tips & Tricks

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Six practices, laid out simply, from a farm that runs on them. Pick the one that fits your ground this season and go from there.

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