Regenerative Agriculture: Quantifying the Benefits of Bee Better Certified at the Farm Level
As of this past month, the Conservation Innovation Grants program at the USDA awarded Bee Better Certified a second round of funding of $2.5 million to help communicate the stacked environmental benefits of our on-farm certification.
That is, the Conservation Innovation team at USDA sees Bee Better Certified as a potential benchmark for regenerative agriculture – employing practices such as flowering cover crops that provide multiple sustainability dividends: protecting pollinators of course, but also supporting soil health and climate resilience on farms.
Through this new round of USDA backing the Bee Better team will be developing field trials that deeply quantify and document these multifaceted benefits at the farm level, with a goal of communicating the results back to consumers and brands that are sourcing Bee Better Certified ingredients.