Conservation and regeneration of natural resources are core tenets of organic agriculture. They’re also key to fighting climate change. When you eat with Joyfully Organic Farm, you’re directly supporting our efforts to strengthen Ontario’s natural resources and build climate resilience.
How? For starters, instead of applying pesticides and herbicides, we opt for alternative practices that protect our waterways, air quality, and soils. Instead of suppressing biodiversity, we view the farm as an ecosystem, a habitat for many, and work with nature to support biodiversity, protecting wildlife and pollinators.
These practices not only reduce the effects of climate change, but develop our resilience to its consequences in a myriad of ways–here are just a couple of examples:
Healthy waterways and soil hydrologies absorb heavy rain events, mitigating flood damage.
Strong wildlife and pollinator populations keep food webs in check and ensure the proliferation of both wild and cultivated plant life.
Healthy soils sequester carbon.
And the reduction of greenhouse gasses (from opting out of hazardous fertilizers and pesticides) slows the very rate at which climate change develops.
Of course, each of these natural resources is connected to, and directly impacted by, its peers. Healthy soils support healthy wildlife populations, clean air protects pollinators, improved soil structure bolsters water quality, and so on. As one factor is strengthened, they all are. And that’s just what climate resilience is requiring of us: an investment in this complex, interconnected web of land and life, such that it can withstand the more extreme and less predictable effects we’ve come to expect from climate change. With effort and investment in the right places, we can develop climate resilience 💪 .
Every dollar spent with Joyfully Organic Farm represents a multitude of benefits beyond that tasty tomato. You’re contributing towards a future with clean, swimmable, drinkable water; healthy wildlife and pollinator populations, fewer greenhouse gas emissions; and last but not least, an improved resilience to climate change as a result of all of the above. We thank you for your support of climate-friendly farming–we couldn’t do this work without it.
