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November 2025: regenerative agriculture

Each month, we break down our topic into four weekly modules. Catch up on previous editions here.​

This week's module: LEARN

• ✅ CONNECT | Conversation prompts on regenerative agriculture​
• 🎯 LEARN | What does regenerative agriculture actually mean, and what challenges does it address?
• ACT | As a regular person, what can you do about the future of food?
• REFLECT | Art, poetry, and commitments

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Here's what we'll learn today Reader

Happy Nivember! I went on a wonderful vacation. I saw an iguana. I swam in a sea of dazzling bioluminescence under the stars.

There is no better planet than Earth, and I want us to keep it for as long as we can before the sun swallows us up, and we have a long time to before then. Let's not cut it short.

Thanks to YOU and all the other helpers in the world, there is so much hope!

Today, we're embarking on our LEARN module on regenerative agriculture. Before we get there, I want to shout out Sara, whose perspectives on Indigenous food sovereignty live rent-free in my head. (Sorry I haven't replied to your email yet, Sara, I was in awe of our mutual fangirling.) Sara has a cookbook of 70+ recipes highlighting Native California foodways, and you should get it. Especially if you're in the United States and celebrating Thanksgiving while having very complicated feelings about the holiday.

I'm really excited for you to check out the articles and video I've found for you today. It makes me feel like a better world is not only possible, but it can start in our kitchens and tables today.

Related news, I was on the Sustainability Defined podcast to chat about joy, burnout, and having conversations around sustainability with family.

Ep 93: Sustainability at the... Nov 7 · Sustainability Defined 70:27   ​

Okay, onwards! Thank you for all the birthday wishes and love and support! It's actually bonkers that November marks SIX YEARS of me writing these Changeletters weekly, thanks to you not letting it die!

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Your bite-sized action plan Reader

✅ LEARN about your role in scaling regenerative agriculture

Ava Potter, who works at the University of Washington's Student Farm, said something life-changing yesterday at Soapbox Seattle. Ava was asked about scale: the UW Student Farm is basically the coolest project ever. It's an organic farm built on top of a freaking landfill. The produce is safe to eat, and because it's grown on-campus, students get access to affordable and fresh food. How cool! Anyway, when she was asked about how to scale these efforts, she reframed scale for us.

Instead of looking at scale as bigger and bigger, she asks:

She talks about scaling the organic farm by starting her own tiny container garden. I would love for all of us to noodle on this concept. What can you scale by making it smaller and bringing it home?

Today, choose an article or video that serves as a case study where regenerative agriculture and other ecological practices are changing our food systems for the better. Then, think about the smallest thing you can do to scale it.

• Option 1: an article on a simple farming technique that can capture carbon for thousands of years.
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  ​Spoiler alert, it's biochar. And biochar is SO COOL. "Regenerative" is basically a fancy way to leave things better than we found them, like sucking up more carbon than we belch and treating the land more kindly than we received it. Biochar is basically a regenerative hero: it's spongy, so it helps soil retain more water. It sequesters carbon immediately. You can make it with biomass, which is pretty much weeds and other troublesome waste you don't want haunting your farm.
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• Option 2: an article on how the Transfarmation project helped turn a poultry farm into a hemp business and an animal rescue!
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  ​Meat and dairy farming accounts for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but it has such a stronghold that it's hard to do something different, especially for farmers whose livelihoods depend on it. The Transfarmation project helps farmers "transition from industrial animal agriculture operations to raising crops for human consumption."
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• Option 3: a video on how Hawaiian rebels are rebuilding an ancient food paradise.
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  ​"Hawaii went from a highly organized, self-sufficient society to one where 90% of the food is imported and the people face the threat of losing their traditional culture... Now it's time to work. It's not a protest anymore. It's about building."
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  This is a story about colonization, hope, and rebuilding. If you've been feeling overwhelmed or anxious, this video may provide you the same healing it did for me.

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Hope grows where you plant it.

Happy planting,

Nivi

It's our last month for Soapbox events!

• This Friday, one of our partners in Seattle, Future Arts, is hosting dinner with robots, a solarpunk dinner party!
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• Every Tuesday in Seattle, we have our usual dinner party! Check out our Seattle calendar here.​
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• In early December, around a month from now, we'll have our FINAL online event. Stay tuned!
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​Our entire events calendar for ALL locations + virtual can be found here.