Biological and regenerative farming systems coaching, with a focus on the most cost efficient and practical way to connect plants to soil to achieve the ultimate animal and human performance.
20
Years experience transitioning farms into regenerative organic status whether pastural or cropping.
Greg Barclay - Founder
Greg has been studying, implementing, and perfecting our system through his company Soil Connection for the past 20 years. His practical history with clients spans over 11,000ha throughout New Zealand. Being the 4th generation of a Canterbury dairy family he has a true a passion for high quality livestock.
MODERN FARMING ASKS:
'How do we manage this pasture to feed our livestock?'
WE SHOULD ASK:
'How do we use our livestock to feed our plants?'
By treating animals not as the end product, but as a biological tool to stimulate plant photosynthesis, we unleash the liquid carbon pathway that fuels the soil microbiome and unlocks the natural mineral wealth of our land. Critically, by choosing to graze a pasture at the correct time for the plants, we by default provide the absolute best nutrition for the animals.
Regenerative Farming
Regenerative Farming Practices have been around the world for many decades, however modern understanding of biological function is allowing us to establish a fully functioning recycling system with higher energy pastures onto farms at a rate much faster than previously observed.
We now have the option to replace the fossil fuel burning paradigm in agriculture, the one with wastes that are destructive on to our natural environment, with a solar energy system, that is regenerative of our natural systems and any waste is fully recyclable.
Our only actions we need to take is to remove any destructive input and practice, and replace these with rebuilding our natural energy recycling systems.
We are foolish to attempt to ‘control’ nature. It did a fine job in perfection without humans, we need to ‘understand’ it and then manage it to help it to help us.
Healthier
Soils
Healthier Water
Healthier Plants
Healthier Animals
Healthier Humans
How?
We can do this with 99% of the necessary resources supplied from our lands, and once in place it takes very low levels of maintenance.Soil Connection has the systems and we have the proof. Are you brave enough to lead, trust your instinct, and star in the regeneration of our whenua?
Organic Certification
Soil Connection transitions farms to full Organic status (BioGro NZ Organic Certification) within cashflow while maintaining productivity.
Lifestyle
We have coached and facilitated many dairy farms throughout NZ to full Organic Certification. Alongside the ongoing benefits of regenerative and organic farming practices, a big part of our WHY is the feedback that farmers are reconnecting with their lifestyle and their families by changing the way they farm.
