Through active ecosystem design, development and management, RAD is redesigning agriculture in nature’s image.
What We're About
COLLABORATION
Working in partnership with farmers, institutions, and investors, Restoration Agriculture Development (RAD) creates real rural economic and community development to improve livelihoods, restore ecosystem services, and produce an abundance of food for humankind.
CONNECTION
Rather than perpetuating the separation of nature and humans, RAD is breaking down the dichotomy of ecological restoration and production agriculture as we support farmers to become ecosystem managers; the ecological and agricultural backbone of the dawning restoration economy.
Shouldn’t we be taking nature’s advice and designing our farms to be self-supporting while giving farmers the tools to manage the ecosystem through the changes in vegetation through time?
We think so!
IT'S ABOUT REGAINING ECOLOGICAL BALANCE.
Restoration agriculture isn’t about restoring ‘historical’ plant species but instead presents an opportunity to farm in nature’s image while producing recognizable, marketable products with large, consistent markets.
IT'S ABOUT BRINGING THE LAND STEWARDSHIP BACK INTO AGRICULTURE.
We are breaking down the dichotomy of ecological restoration and agricultural production to design and install a biome-appropriate agriculture system for each region. This is ecosystem mimicry in agriculture. Someday each biome will have its own agricultural systems in place on the ground — complete with Ph.D. level research.