Let’s restore the climate one acre at a time
Whether you grow food, sell food, or eat food, you can help solve the climate crisis.
Collective Regeneration
Building healthy soil for a better future.
We believe in a world in which climate change isn’t merely postponed, it is overcome. But none of us can solve the crisis on our own. That’s why we connect and mobilize local food economies to restore the climate. Call it regenerative, call it climate smart, call it carbon farming – the important thing is that farmers are building healthy soil, and putting carbon back into the ground.
"Zero Foodprint’s strategy is clear, direct, and impactful. Their model is to pay farmers to practice regenerative agriculture to sequester carbon, which is both good for the soil and good for the climate."
Kristin Thalheimer at Dean’s Sweets
From improbable
to possible
Zero Foodprint was born from the Bay Area restaurant community, as a group effort to understand the climate impact of food businesses. As restaurant folks, we talked to a lot of farmers who said they needed more resources to transition to regenerative practices – from technical assistance to cost sharing and price premiums. Realizing that the food system had to change from the ground up, we began building a movement with chefs, farmers, scientists, and regional governments seeking climate action and resilience. Zero Foodprint makes it possible to directly change farming and to get the next regenerative practice onto the next acre.
The Zero Foodprint Community
Dozens of businesses and their customers use a few cents to make every purchase part of a local climate solution. Zero Foodprint collects those funds then teams up with farmers, ranchers and local conservation experts to optimally end equitably build healthy soil and restore carbon. In this way, we’re closing the loop in local food economies to improve soil health.
Join the movement
Let’s eat our way out of the climate crisis.
Regeneration
We promote regenerative agriculture, which works to undo the damage that extractive agriculture has done to our planet, health, food, and people. It’s not enough to reduce emissions or limit pesticides — we must remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Collective action
Meaningful change requires systemic investment in sustainable farming as part of a renewable food economy. We work to connect the public with policy makers and stewards of the land who are creating systems to "improve the grid of food,” with the goal of a movement that includes all of us.
Justice
Climate change is an issue of environmental justice as much as it’s a scientific challenge. We activate a diverse group of partners, members, and grantees in a community of collaboration built on respect for different identities and experiences in order to promote sustainability, access, and equity.
Prosperity
Healthy soil is not only good for the planet, but it is also correlated with profitability and resilience for agricultural businesses. Healthy soil practices reduce vulnerability to drought and flood, while reducing input costs. Bringing wealth back into the soil through a new “Table-to-Farm” movement is a win-win-win for humanity.
Reciprocity
The small act of planting seeds ensures a future harvest, we believe economic reciprocity—even small investments—can add up to reverse the climate crisis and ensure a livable environment for future generations. You could think of it as indigenous wisdom, internalizing the externalities, or just common decency.