OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES

1.  Heal the earth. For too long, we have neglected our soil. Together, we can use holistic land management practices to bring back the beneficial microorganisms that are the key to stabilizing our chaotic climate and replenishing the nutrients in our food. We are using regenerative agriculture to save our planet. Join us!

2.  Bring back our rain and snow. 60% of our rain comes from the ocean, but 40% comes from inland, small water cycles. We need healthy soil to nurture plants that transpire moisture, which produces our local rain. When the beneficial microorganisms die due to open-air tilling and the use of pesticides and herbicides, they release carbon into the soil. The released carbon then heats up the soil, dries it out, and it finally turns into desert-like sand. This process then sends heat vortices up into the air, which pushes away rain clouds. Exacerbating an already bad situation! Each acre we manage heals the microorganisms and brings back moisture to our local environment and the chance for more rain and snow during the ski season.

3.  Educate other farmers and ranchers on our cutting-edge, sustainable techniques and processes in hopes of turning back the tide of desertification in the west through our Youtube Channel, podcasts, and newsletter. We do not want to become another Mesopotamia, which once was the fertile crescent.

4.  Through our Charity Dinners, we hope to continue to host other non-profits such as: The Christian Center, Summit Land Conservancy, People's Health Clinic, Peace House, Recycle Utah, The National Ability Center to help them raise money for their causes at no cost to them. 

5. Provide nutritious food to our local food bank in hopes of alleviating suffering from those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Our number #1 nonprofit mission is to replenish and nurture the beneficial soil microorganisms in our soil. These beneficial microorganisms are the key to everything we need in order to fix the climate and fix the nutrition in our food. They can solve the biggest problems of our time. Without them, we will continue to see huge, damaging changes to our environment and to our health.

We heal the microorganisms through the lens of holistic land management and by using regenerative agricultural techniques. Specifically, we use no-till drills (we do not damage the beneficial root structure when planting crops), 40 seed cover crops (a cover crop is a crop of a specific plant that is grown primarily for the benefit of the soil rather than the crop yield), livestock aeration and rotational grazing, and adding beneficial microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, enzymes and other microbes) back into the soil.

Once the microorganisms have been brought back into the soil, we then protect them by using a diverse set of cover-crops. As the microorganisms are re-established back into the soil, they solve an incredible set of problems for us: they lower our local temperature which stabilizes our weather, they anchor plants and trees that breathe out moisture which creates our inland water cycle bringing back our rain and our snow (60% of our rain comes from the ocean. The other 40% comes from small inland water cycles), and they give our crops the nutrients they need which in turn gives us the nutrients we need for our own health as we eat those crops that the microbiology has nourished. They also provide the nutrition to the plants that the animals receive when they eat these crops. Saving the microbiology in the soil has been the missing link of conventional agriculture.

Synthetic chemicals will destroy the beneficial microorganisms in the soil. Open-air tilling will expose the microbiology to the sun, which is like a type of ‘disinfectant’ process. As the microorganisms die, they give off carbon into the soil, which heats up and dries out the dirt. This then sends vortices of heat up into the atmosphere heating the earth and pushes away our rain clouds. It is a vicious cycle of desertification and it is happening both in the western states of America and throughout the world. This is what happened to many ancient cultures. Mesopotamia was once a fertile crescent.

Today, we are reversing climate change acre by acre. Each acre we manage brings back the beneficial microorganisms and the vast solutions to our greatest threats. We currently manage over 2,000 acres in Park City and the surrounding area.

“The wildlife has come back to the properties that Bill is working on in the area as a result of regenerative agriculture - from the bees, to the microorganisms, all the way up to the elk. You go out in these fields with the cover crops, the different watering systems - it’s unbelievable. It’s cooler, it’s lush - again, the biodiversity is so apparent.” - Cheryl Fox, Summit Land Conservancy Executive Director.

After opening up his ranch and farm several years ago, Bill quickly realized the abused state of our soil and strategically began the process of removing commercial agricultural chemicals and reintroducing healthy microbiology, fungi, and enzymes to the dirt. This process rejuvenated the soil back to health and life. He realized that we must give back to the earth in order to have sustainable harvests year-after-year.

As he researched the best methods to heal the soil, Bill also began to realize the enormous potential for soil to reduce carbon emissions from the atmosphere.

What is Carbon and why is it a problem?

Carbon is a chemical element, like hydrogen, oxygen, lead or any of the others in the periodic table. Excess carbon in the air is bad because it is one of the causes of climate change. Carbon acts like a blanket and traps heat in our atmosphere, thus increasing temperatures and causing extreme weather. How did excess carbon get into the atmosphere? The majority of carbon is released into the air as we burn gas from fossil fuels in our cars.

what is the most efficient way to reduce carbon from the air?

Soil. It turns out that healthy soil, with healthy vegetation, can draw down the carbon from the air and put it back into the soil more efficiently than any other system on the planet. Atmospheric carbon is absorbed by plants and is pumped into the soil where it is stored for hundreds of years by vast fungal networks.

Here is a quick video on how healthy soil can remove carbon from the atmosphere:

What is the Bill White Carbon Sequestration Program?

Bill has pioneered a unique set of natural processes that combine the latest information on successful land rejuvenation techniques to bring back the health of the soil and reduce the amount of carbon in the air from burned fossil fuels. By mimicking the sequences of nature, Bill is bringing back the health of our land. It is a complex project including water shed management, cover cropping, erosion control, permaculture, silvopasturing, keyline water system planning, natural grazing sequencing, and more. All of these processes are done though a scientific lens to provide and share information on what works and what doesn't and why in hopes of it being scaled up and applied to other farmers and ranchers. We operate our farm as a healthy, living eco-system. Our lands are holistically managed to increasingly become a living organic medium that is teeming with life.

Please stay tuned for more info.

Until we fix our education issues, we cannot fix our ecological issues. We understand how difficult it is to put on a new lens to switch from conventional agriculture to regenerative agriculture, but we must do it! There is no greater force shaping the earth right now than conventional agriculture. Its effect is enormous! We are constantly educating farmers and ranchers about the importance of nurturing the importance of healthy microbiology in our soils and our local community about sustainable practices. Together, we can heal the earth and achieve incredible levels of health for our soils, our animals, and for ourselves.

Giving back to our local food pantry, at the Christian Center of Park City, is a big part of our nonprofit mission. We are all in this together! We have donated highly nutritious food from our farm to those in need for years as a core part of the spirit of our organization. In addition, Bill White has personally led cooking classes on our farm to show how to cook that nutritious food. It has been an amazing experience. In order to achieve a harmonious ecology, we must reflect those values within our own human community as well. No one is alone. We are all here together and we must nurture our community.