Fighting Climate Change-Restoring Soil Nutrition-Creating Healthy Lifestyles


Kiss The Ground is a Los Angeles based nonprofit started six years ago by restaurateur Ryland Engelhart sitting in his living room with friends including Co-Founder Finian Makepeace. Kiss The Ground’s goal is to change agricultural and farming using soil-nourishing techniques focusing on ecosystem regeneration to build and restore healthy soil, water, atmosphere and communities. Their fundamental premise is fighting and reversing climate change based on “soil carbon sequestering,” a process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in soil. This works as a contributing solution to reducing atmosphere greenhouse gases.

Soil regeneration is nothing new. It has been used by many indigenous cultures and communities around the world for centuries. In these communities they have long used farming practices built on a regenerative stewardship relationship with the earth. A core mission of Kiss the Ground is to bring these practices and this thinking into mainstream agriculture. 

They are achieving this through, farmer training, community farms, kindergarten through high school education curriculum, speaking engagements and as an influencer in climate change discussions on a global scale. They also spotlight farms and products using regenerative carbon sequestering so that we make better nutrition and purchase decisions. 

To learn more about the connection between regenerative soil techniques, nutrition and climate change check out the book “Kiss The Ground,” by Josh Tickell. To support and get involved with the LA-based nonprofit of the same name visit www.kisstheground.com

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