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This May 26 profile visits a couple who had demonstrated the case for "rewilding" and have now turned a meaningful chunk of their land into a regenerative farm.

This May 15 story sizes up fund managers' attitudes toward biodiversity - and spells out means to make the fad more than a fad.

This May 17 story visits two farmers investing in soil-health innovation before it gets to carbon-market scale.

Rachel Kyte, who helped hammer out the Paris agreement, talks through techniques to deliver robust carbon markets before (or instead of waiting until) governments make the rules. The interview requires a 7-day free trial.

This April 27 blog post works through how community land trusts, which farmers started in the face of racist systems, can advance Black homeownership.

This January, Environmental Defense Fund and Farmers Business Network launched the pilot Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF). Enrolled farmers who meet soil health and nitrogen efficiency standards will access a 0.5% discount on a one-year credit line. This product, years in the making, aims to update farm financing.

This April 21 item looks over a project that sells farmed kelp...and an executive who wants to propagate ocean farming into a viable piece of the carbon-credit marketplace.

This April 19 TV story from a Baltimore affiliate elucidates some water-management practice in a state where conservation finance now flows through public policy.

So five gargantuan companies are deploying $925 million for what they say are verifiable carbon-credit projects. Here's the April 13 take in GreenBiz on a new venture from Alphabet, Meta, McKinsey, Shopify and Stripe.

This April 4 news item catches us up on (still-in-draft) efforts to create a state conservation bank in South Carolina.

Conservation Finance Network

Having Sown Their Wild Oughts

Biodiversity Investment Booms. Now to Make it Tick...

"They Need to Hear It From Another Farmer"

Worth Reading About Worth: Kyte Addresses Voluntary Markets

Land Trusts Can Lead to Housing Justice, Says a Federal Reserve Bank

The Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund's Climate-Smart Rebate

Kelp-able of More

Take a Chesapeake at This

Meta and Partners Push Nearly $1 Billion Into Offsets

Steering Into the Conservation Bank?