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: CONNECT
- 🎯 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
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Nivember is also the beginning of peak eating season with celebrations from pretty much every culture taking center stage, so this month, we're talking about regenerative agriculture.
Currently, we've built an agriculture system that takes more than it gives. Can we flip it and reverse it? How?
Come on a journey this month and find out.
We'll begin with our CONNECT module today where you'll have the chance to ponder some themes of the month, then LEARN next week about some facts + figures + stories, then ACT by... taking action lol, then REFLECT with a poem on regeneration.
Yay wahoo let's get started!
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Your bite-sized action plan Reader
✅ CONNECT with these conversation prompts about regenerative agriculture and the future of food
Every CONNECT module, you’ll get up to four prompts to connect with yourself, others, spirit, and systems.
Your mission is to take what’s in these Changeletters and bring it into one of those dimensions.
Before we get into it, here's a brief definition of regenerative agriculture:
Regenerative agriculture asks us to think about
how all aspects of agriculture are connected through a web—a network of entities who grow, enhance, exchange, distribute, and consume goods and services—instead of a linear supply chain. There’s no strict rule book, but the holistic principles behind the dynamic system of regenerative agriculture are meant to restore soil and ecosystem health, address inequity, and leave our land, waters, and climate in better shape for future generations. (
NRDC)
Another term to be aware of is agroecology, which is a direct response to the harms of industrial agriculture.
Now, for conversation starters! Remember to talk about these so they don't die dead in your inbox or else that will be very sad.
- What are your cultural, personal, and familial relationships with food? Think about the traditions, socioeconomics, health, and other factors that influence the way you think about your own food choices.
- What questions and challenges come up when you think about the food system? Do sustainable choices feel heavier than other choices you make in your life?
- How does agriculture go beyond food? Think about the things you wear or have around you. Do you know where the materials came from? How can we reimagine this? When we think about agriculture, we generally think about the things we eat. What else do we grow, though?
- What does "regenerative" mean to you? As the NRDC blurb says above, there's no rulebook. Also, this term doesn't just apply to agriculture. What are the people, places, habits, etc. that feel regenerative to you?
My answer: hanging out with my friends and cooking a meal together feels regenerative. Even though it takes time, money, and energy, I feel like I have way more of all of those three factors afterwards, even though I'm pretty sure physics doesn't work like that. I think of regenerative as something that puts me into a state of abundance I didn't have before. What about you?
Those are your four questions for today! I hope you have some fruitful discussions with humans in your life. As always, report back with anything you'd like to share.
Team earth forever,
Nivi
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