Soil Keepers
Regenerative Farming and Consultants
farming with Living Soil
At Soil Keepers, we transform land into thriving, productive ecosystems through regenerative farming practices. We believe that healthy soil creates healthy food, healthy animals, and healthy humans. As experienced consultants, we guide farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders in creating resilient agricultural systems that work with nature, not against it. Our hands-on approach helps you build healthier soil, increase productivity, and create regenerative operations that benefit both your land and community.
MEET The Soil Keepers
Meet Dean and Amy, the driving force behind Soil Keepers. With deep roots in farming that stretch from Wisconsin to Oregon and now Texas, this team combines their love of nature with scientific understanding and extensive soil health knowledge to create thriving agricultural systems. Together, they share their expertise and passion for regenerative farming, helping others create healthier soil, stronger communities, and more effective farming operations.
Dean and Amy Yeager
MEET The Soil Keepers
Meet Dean and Amy, the driving force behind Soil Keepers. With deep roots in farming that stretch from Wisconsin to Oregon and now Texas, this team combines their love of nature with scientific understanding and extensive soil health knowledge to create thriving agricultural systems. Together, they share their expertise and passion for regenerative farming, helping others create healthier soil, stronger communities, and more effective farming operations.
Dean and Amy Yeager
Every practice is done for the ecological health and benefit of the whole farm to produce nutritionally dense food for animals and humans.
1. Do No Harm!
Disturb as little as possible. Be gentle with soil, leave habitat for wildlife, remove invasive species when feasible, use natives when practical.
2. Do Not Disturb!
Diversity is healthy, resilient and profitable. When planting cover crops, use as many species as possible; pastures should have grasses, legumes and forbes. Gardens should have companion planting and inter planting.
3. Be Diverse!
Maximize photosynthesis to feed the soil life. Practice adaptive grazing that leaves adequate residual height for continued photosynthesis. Cropping and gardening always have living roots and growing plants.
4. Soak Up the Sun!
Ground cover is essential to protect health and life of the soil for water infiltration and nutrient cycling. It is important to have all dirt covered at all times with new growth, mulch, compost, and or residual left from grazing.
5. Cover Up!
The farm's environment, soil, and location tells you what to do, raise and farm. One must know the context of their abilities, availability, climate, natural resources, and proximities.
Farming should benefit the community in which it operates. It should be a resource for nutrient dense food, education, recreation, and hospitality.
By caring for the soil, you will benefit with farming becoming easier, and more profitable, with less inputs.
6. Listen To the Dirt!
7. Make a Difference!
8. Accept the Blessing!
principles
practices
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PORTFOLIO
Create Wildlife Habitat
Hedge Rows
Silvo Grazing
Bat Houses
Bird Houses
Multi species grazing
Multiple cover crops
Interplanting
Companion Planting in Gardens
Simplify Labor
Compatibility system
Flowering trees, bushes and plants to attract pollinators
Control livestock access to ponds and streams
No till planting
Introduce beneficial insects and microorganisms
Use Livestock Guardian Dogs
All practices are implemented to promote and create a healthy ecological environment that works together to maximize a thriving productive system without long term inputs. This thriving productive system encourages diversity of plants, forage, insects, crops, wildlife, birds, and all classes of livestock. This resulting increase in photosynthesis production along with the increased biome density and diversity, the natural balance of disease and pest pressure; results in a nutrient dense forage, animal, and garden produce. Which then leads to healthier humans, a healthy environment, and long-term profitability.
