- Cultivating a Healthier Future
Scaling Regenerative Agriculture Through Hands-On Education
Soil Health Academy is an organization committed to empowering regeneration through education. We help farmers first understand, and then effectively apply nature’s proven regenerative agriculture principles. Our mission is to cultivate healthier soil, food, farms, and communities, paving the way for a healthier future.
Since 2017, SHA has empowered over 2,800 participants to reduce their dependence on synthetic chemicals, improve water infiltration by 75%, and cut pesticide and herbicide use by 65%.
Regenerative agriculture has the powerful potential to restore the health of our bodies, farms, communities, and planet, while also strengthening the economic viability of our planet’s farms and rural areas. However, without providing farmers and ranchers with the practical knowledge and tools to successfully apply soil health-improving principles, widespread adoption of regenerative agriculture remains unlikely. The Soil Health Academy was founded to address this critical need, helping to ensure that regenerative practices can be effectively implemented on farms and ranches across the world.
Soil Health Academy (SHA) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3).
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To deliver empowering education to regenerate the health of our living and life-giving soil, restoring health to bodies, communities, environments, and futures.
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Regenerative Principles That Strengthen Soil, Crops, and Profitability
At our academies you’ll learn from our team of experts who will guide you in boosting profitability, enhancing the resilience of your land, reducing input costs, and increasing the nutrient density and market appeal of your agricultural products.
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Our Approach
The SHA curriculum is comprehensive, hands-on, and designed for practical application. It blends classroom learning with real-world field exercises, offered in one-, two-, or three-day formats. The curriculum is structured around three key areas of focus: mindset, skills, and tools. Host farms and ranches actively applying regenerative practices provide a live setting where students can see soil health in action, and more.
SHA, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, focuses its efforts on helping farmers first understand and then successfully apply nature’s time-proven, regenerative agriculture principles today — in order to grow healthier soil, food, farms and communities for tomorrow.
- Proven Impact
Real Results from Regenerative Education
Across farms and ranches, Soil Health Academy graduates are applying regenerative principles with confidence. In post-program surveys, participants report meaningful shifts in decision-making, management practices, and a strong belief that these changes will drive long-term profitability and resilience.
Spending three days building new relationships with experts and other like-minded producers gave me the fiery confidence to construct my young operation on solid bedrock.
The Soil Health Academy has been instrumental in taking my soil/farming knowledge (and hence the direction of my business) to the next level.
The Academy was a real eye opener. You all did such a great job presenting, and the fact that you are living what you’re teaching made all the difference. You’ve changed our way of thinking, and we’ve already started putting into practice what we learned.
My Soil Health Academy experience is invaluable. To be able to apply the principles with confidence is guaranteed to be a benefit to our net profitability as we work with nature to better our family, farm and community.
- The People Behind the Mission
Meet the Team
Kim Barmann
President
Kent Donica
Secretary / Treasurer
Eric Fuchs
Vice President
Jill Pederson
Development
Doug Voss
Executive Director
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