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Towards the end of last year, whilst listening to an episode of the Regenerative Agriculture podcast, I was fascinated to learn about a prototype handheld spectrometer being developed by the Bionutrient Food Association in the US, which uses the signature of reflected light from food samples to give a potential indication of their nutritional density.

After growers have taken our two-day Principles of Biological Systems course, they frequently ask me if there’s a single book out there that encompasses all that they just learned in the weekend workshop, a book that summarizes the practices and insights which they could dig into and refer to later. This is that book. Coming

Imagine a future where your food’s nutritional profile was available at your fingertips. Not via a simplified, back-of-pack label, but a real-time snapshot of the nutrient density within the vegetable in your hands. It’s a future where our understanding of what is in our food can tell us how well it’s been grown. Most of

I’ve been waiting a decade to write this column. I’m always squeamish about touting something too early. Like friend and fellow pastured poultry enthusiast Andy Lee always said: “I don’t want to hear ‘I’m gonna;’ I want to hear ‘I did.’” How many times have businesses or well-spoken visionaries described “gonna” and everything falls off

The Bionutrient Food Association is working with producers to establish growing practices that yield more nutritious crops, while developing a standard for nutrient-dense foods and a handheld tool to measure those nutrient levels. The idea behind the tool is to use existing technology, like the camera in a Smartphone, to scan produce right in the

Drive up to Kittredge Farm in central Massachusetts, and you’ll find a restored farmhouse with a post-and-beam porch, long hoop houses growing an abundance of seasonal produce and a farmer feeding a herd of beef cows with the help of his 2-year-old son. It’s a classic, pastoral scene of a hardworking farm family. Stay awhile,

An inquisitive second-generation organic farmer named Dan Kittredge, 34, advocates moving beyond organic. He has put together and is popularizing a system for “Bionutrient-Rich Crop Production,” often abbreviated as “nutrient-dense farming.” His method strives to give plants all the nourishment they need to reach their full potential, a premise that makes sense intuitively, scientifically and