Why Regenerative Organic? | Part 3: What We’re Doing (and Why)

Regenerative Organic agriculture could be a viable way to help stop climate change before it's too late. In 1996, Patagonia decided to exclusively use organic cotton and recycled cotton. Now we’re taking our commitment even further by growing the cotton in our clothes with Regenerative Organic methods. The highest organic standard, this farming method supports people and animals working together to restore the health of our planet to create a brighter future.

[UnderOneSky]

Here we grow! Healthy soil, happy souls and holistic systems.

[angelas.g]

This is how agriculture should be done, this is the natural ecosystem of our soil=carbon dioxide= less natural disasters....Save our Mother Earth! Thank you! 🙌🏻❤️

[HarvestLovee]

Ivan Chouinard, my hero, you and Patagonia not only inspire me to protect the environment, but also make me to become a better human being...We live in the Chakra of Life or to say Wheel of life, or in Buddhism, "Wheel of teaching."We learn from learning, unlearning, teaching (analyzing) to ourselves and to each other.I would say, Year of 2000s, 'Teaching the Wheel of Interdependence.'

[TylerAndToast]

Every time we sit down to eat we're making a series of votes. Thats powerful.

[MyPersonalityIsEngineer]

So the vital issue here is that A.O has outrageous labor cost for 4 people for one acre of production while 4 people in modern agriculture can manage up to 2, 400 acres by themselves. So even while including the supposed boost in production it takes 1, 600 people to manage that same amount of land. And considering how expensive human labor is everywhere outside of East Asia and Africa it would make food prices absolutely astronomical. Not to mention how many people would suddenly have to take up farming instead of literally every other line of work (you know like it was back in the when 90% of the human population had to work to make food)

[Gerwulf]

The unspoken reality that needs to be said is that their is a cost. Less of us can live in cities and suburbs, and have to work on those 1 and a half acre farms. In the 1800s, 70% of Americans worked in ag, in the 1940's it was about 40%, nowadays, its about 2%. Idk what level we need, but maybe its 10-20%, but obviously that means many more people farming. But between working in some terrible warehouse vs farming, i'd rather farm if I can do it efficiently and ergonomically.

[Tepius]

I like this message except for the fact that Mr. Chouinard is wrong about limiting the size of the fields to 1 to 1.5 acres. Gabe Brown from "understanding AG" in South-Dakota has proven together will Gail Fuller, Dave Browne, Dan DeSutter, Colin Seis from Winona farm in Australia, Rolf Derpsch in Chile, Lucien Séguy from Cirad in france all have proven that regenerative farming is feasible, is profitable and is practiced on several hundreds of acres at the time! Let's realize this on huge scale and NOW!

[Toddcm]

Let's keep spreading this message!

[dandass]

Does anyone know where part one and two are?

[robloxkoalaz]

*Patagonia* dont look at mu username!