Catalysing the food and farming industry’s shift to regenerative agriculture.
Catalysing the food and farming industry’s shift to regenerative agriculture.
Need support paying the full fee?
Thanks to our funders, we hold a number of bursary and sponsored places. Bursaries are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis, so if cost is a factor we’d encourage you to get your application in early. Mention it in your consultation call and we’ll talk you through the options.
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Learn Regenerative Farming System Design and Implementation
Roots to Regeneration (R2R) is a comprehensive two-year programme that teaches the thinking, design, implementation and ongoing adaptation of resilient and profitable regenerative farming systems.
Pioneered by Caroline Grindrod and Clare Hill, R2R goes beyond isolated practices to deliver a complete systems approach for your unique context—integrating soil health, livestock management, grazing design, enterprise stacking, and financial planning.
This transformative journey combines hands-on farm experiences, expert-led sessions, online learning, and ongoing peer support within a supportive regenerative community.
We’re now recruiting our next cohort of up to 20 participants, beginning March 2027. Applications are open now and close on 31 January 2027 — and if cost is a factor, it’s worth knowing our bursaries are awarded first come, first served.
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Twenty-three pages: every module, both roots, all three immersives, and what it costs. You’ll also get a series of emails on how a regenerative transition actually works.
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What is the problem?
Our food and farming systems face a complex web of interconnected challenges—from climate volatility and supply chain disruption to changing markets and rural depopulation. These aren’t isolated problems requiring separate solutions; they’re symptoms of systems that need fundamental redesign.
Most regenerative programmes focus on farm-level practices in isolation. But lasting change requires transformation across the entire food system—from how farms operate to how businesses, markets, and communities connect and support each other.
Individual farm transitions, while essential, aren’t sufficient for system-wide regeneration.
What is the Solution
The R2R programme takes a different approach. We work simultaneously with farmers and food system professionals using a robust theory of change that creates transformation at multiple levels.
For Farmers: We provide comprehensive system design that creates resilient, profitable operations while positioning you as leaders who can influence broader change.
For Professionals: We build deep agricultural literacy combined with regenerative business and leadership skills to transform how the food system supports regenerative transition.
For Both: We create a connected community of practitioners who understand their role in system-wide transformation—from regenerative farms to regenerative supply chains, finance, policy, and rural communities.
This integrated approach means farm transitions happen faster and more successfully, while the broader system evolves to support and reward regenerative practices rather than undermine them.
Applications close 31 January 2027
If you are interested in R2R but want to chat to Clare or Caroline we would be delighted to have a call to answer your questions.
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What some of our R2R participants say about the programme
BenefitsBenefits & Outcomes
The R2R programme offers a wealth of benefits that equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and support necessary for a successful, rapid and sustainable transition to regenerative agriculture:
How our Regeneration Agriculture Training is Delivered
The R2R programme is structured over a period of two years, providing ample time for participants to immerse themselves in the course content, apply learnings on their farms, and integrate regenerative principles and practices into their daily operations.
The first year will include most of the structured learning and site-based visits. Year two will continue to embed learning, build a supportive community, and offer the chance for some one-to-one tailored support and deeper engagement with your peers.
The next round of the R2R programme is scheduled to begin in March 2027.
Immersive Introduction
Begin your regenerative transition with a 3-day, 2-night immersive stay at 42 Acres. Here, you’ll meet your cohort and get a foundational overview of the programme.
Key Milestones at Renowned Conferences
Celebrate our key milestones and catch up with some of your peers at Groundswell, Carbon Calling and Oxford Real Farming Conference.
Hands-on Farm-Based Training
- Planton Farm in Shropshire: 8–10 June 2027
- Gowbarrow Farm in Cumbria: 28–30 September 2027
Interactive Online Learning
Delve into five self-paced, multimedia-rich online courses designed to deepen your understanding and sharpen your skills.
Regular Group Coaching
Benefit from regular, in-depth engagement during fortnightly Zoom learning and coaching calls, ensuring you stay on track and resolve any emerging challenges.
Community Engagement
Tap into the collective intelligence and camaraderie of the R2R community, sharing resources and seeking insights via a dedicated engagement platform.
Expert Sessions
Stay updated and inspired with live online training sessions led by industry-leading experts in regeneration.
Peer-to-peer support and learning
Professionals will ‘buddy’ up with a farmer to walk through the design of the regenerative context and implementation of the regenerative principles and practices.
A Living Library of Technical Information
Deep technical self-led learning, and a regularly updated ‘living library’ of resources on the soil, plant, animal, and climate systems.
Practical Hands-on Farming Experience
New entrant farmers will have the option of attending a three-day ‘work experience’ opportunity at Planton Farm.
Two Pathways, One Mission
In Roots to Regeneration, we have two curriculum pathways or ‘Roots’ – the farmer root and the professional root.
Both pathways unite for all farm-based learning and share our community platform. While each root has specialised sessions and guest experts, all participants have lifetime access to content from both pathways—you can follow a dual root approach or access live sessions and recordings from the parallel pathway whenever you choose.
This integrated approach ensures farmers understand the broader system context while professionals gain deep agricultural literacy, creating a connected community of practitioners driving change across the entire food system.
FARMER ROOT: Complete Regenerative System Design and Implementation
Perfect for: Farmers ready to master comprehensive regenerative systems.
PROFESSIONAL ROOT: Systems-Level Impact
Perfect for: Agribusiness professionals, consultants, and rural innovators.
Why Work with Food System Professionals?
Whole system transition to regenerative agriculture requires transformation across the entire food and farming system—not just on farms. We need regenerative approaches in business, finance, policy, supply chains, and rural development.
The Challenge: Most of the agriculture industry approaches regenerative agriculture at the ‘functional’ level—adding regenerative practices to existing systems without understanding the deeper paradigm shift required.
Our Approach: We work with food system professionals to understand regeneration as a complete paradigm shift—from mechanistic thinking to living systems principles—that can transform how businesses, policies, and communities operate.
How Professionals Learn Regenerative Systems
Professional participants learn regenerative principles by walking through the complete farm design process alongside our farming cohort. You’ll witness firsthand how regenerative farms understand their unique environmental, social, and economic context, and how living systems principles are applied to create successful transitions.
Many professionals also participate in our buddy system, partnering with a farmer in the cohort to walk through their regenerative design and implementation process. This reciprocal relationship deepens your understanding while providing valuable support to your farming partner.
This immersive, practice-based approach gives you:
- Deep Agricultural Literacy: Understand the real challenges and opportunities farmers face
- Living Systems Thinking: Learn principles you can apply to any organisation or system
- Credible Expertise: Gain practical knowledge that builds trust with farming clients and partners
- Network of Practitioners: Connect with both farmers and fellow professionals driving system change
Professional-Specific Training
Following your foundation in regenerative agriculture (months 1-6), you’ll transition into professional-focused sessions that explore how living systems principles transform organizations, policy, markets, and communities.
Regenerative Business and Leadership
– Applying living systems principles to organizational design
– Developing regenerative mindsets and leadership approaches
– Creating business models that enhance rather than extract
Systems Change and Innovation
– Understanding how to catalyse transformation across complex systems
– Policy development and regenerative transition strategies
– Market development for regenerative products and services
– Leverage points for systemic change
Place-Based Development
– Building regenerative economies rooted in local communities
– Natural capital assessment and ecosystem services
– Rural innovation and community engagement strategies
Your Role in System Transformation
As a Professional Root graduate, you’ll be equipped to:
- Design regenerative businesses and organizational cultures
- Develop policies and programs that truly support regenerative transition
- Create supply chains and markets that reward regenerative practices
- Build community resilience and rural regeneration projects
- Become a trusted advisor to farmers and regenerative enterprises
Expert Contributors Include: Daniel Christian Wahl (Regenerative Culture), Sue Prichard (Food System Policy), Holly McCann (Regenerative Leadership), Robin Alfred (Organizational Design), and many more.
Core Topics Covered by the R2R Programme
Introduction to the Regenerative Principles:
Introducing how we can enhance the elemental conditions for primary production and the tools we have available to regenerate our farm ecosystem. An introduction ‘whole system function’ and how we leverage complexity to reduce inputs and slash costs.
Becoming a Systems Thinker:
Being a successful regenerative farmer requires you to be able to solve multi-dimensional complex problems and address the root causes. We give you tech tools and teach you ways to become a systems thinker and solve problems so they don’t re-occur.
Developing Your Regenerative Context:
A regenerative farm is as unique as a fingerprint of people and place. We go through a detailed process of scoping the unique opportunities and challenges your landscape and lives present so we can co-create the most optimal regenerative, resilient business and management plan for your farm.
Developing Your Proactive Livestock Health Plan:
We take a ‘whole system’ approach to the health of your livestock and explore how we can design a genetic selection strategy to minimise problems. We go through your current veterinary health plan and find ways to be more proactive so we can prevent disease rather than require the use of harmful cures that damage the ecosystem.
Dealing with Problem Species:
Building on the whole system function training and applying your systems thinking skills, you will brainstorm how your management may be leading to dominant problem species (weeds, pests and disease) and might be causing a lack of resilience in your system. You will then design a proactive plan to change the management to enhance the conditions for missing species and reduce the conditions for problem organisms.
Regenerative Grazing Planning and Practicalities:
We do a deep dive into the principles of regenerative grazing, including infrastructure considerations and optimising livestock production and health. You will then co-develop your first summer and winter grazing plans in a workshop setting and be given the tools and resources to develop your own plans in the future.
Soil Health:
Over several sessions including a comprehensive online resource we will do a deep dive into the soil, covering the physical, chemical and biological aspects of soil health. We look at optimal nutrient management strategies and ways of reducing artificial fertility inputs without losing production.
Regenerative Livestock Trait Selection:
We explore how to put pressure on your herd or flock to highlight opportunities to select the animals with the best ‘fit’ for your unique context. We create strategies that will get you there without compromising your profitability or welfare ethics.
Composting and Fermentation:
We introduce an overview of the many composting or fermentation options that could help accelerate soil and ecosystem regeneration.
Diverse Swards – Beyond Herbal Leys:
Herbal leys can be a great tool in the regenerative toolbox, but for some livestock options, there may be cheaper and better options for creating productive, diverse swards. We give you the options.
Stacking Enterprises:
On a regenerative farm, we want to create complexity so our ecosystem and income streams are resilient. When starting out, however, adding complexity to an already huge change could cause overwhelm and failure. We teach you smart strategies for adding new enterprises without burnout.
Livestock Management:
Many regenerative programs focus on soil and plant productivity, but managing our livestock optimally is another way we can optimise productivity, guarantee high welfare and create a safer working environment. We look at herd structure, weaning, and low-stress livestock handling.
Regenerative Cropping:
We cover some examples of how arable farmers are working with regenerative principles. Our main focus is on optimising plant health so that the plant can drive soil regeneration and is nutrient-dense to become resistant to pests and disease and make the perfect health-promoting food for humans or animals.
Funding Opportunities and Pitfalls:
We explore the principles of regenerative financial planning and look at the main funding opportunities for regenerative farmers including natural capital options and de-risked bank loan options.
Designing and Taking Your Baselines and Measuring Regenerative Outcomes:
You can not say you are a ‘regenerative’ farmer unless you prove you are regenerating your system. Every context will have a slightly different way of measuring these changes depending on the market they are supplying or the story they want to tell. We introduce you to the options and help you develop a suite of baseline measures that inform management as well as capture the regenerative outcomes.
The Rooting to Place Process
Advanced Leadership Development in Year Two
For those ready to explore their unique role in regenerative transformation more deeply, Year Two offers:
Regional System Understanding: Explore how your work fits into broader food system transformation and regional resilience.
Facilitated Peer Coaching: Work with cohort peers using structured coaching methodology to clarify your professional direction and impact.
Applied Innovation: Develop projects or expand your practice in ways that enhance rather than extract from your local environment and community.
Movement Building: Connect with networks of regenerative practitioners creating lasting change across rural communities.
Your Guides to Regeneration
Our team is composed of seasoned experts in regenerative agriculture, leadership training, business development, and operational management. Each brings unique skills to ensure the success of the R2R programme.
Clare and Caroline are the co-founders of R2R and lead the programme delivery.
Caroline Grindrod
Award-winning educator and founder/co-founder of Roots of Nature and Wilderculture CIC, specialising in integral approaches to regenerative transition and bioregional development.
Clare Hill
Clare Hill
| Co-Founder & Regenerative Farm Leader
Leading practitioner in whole-farm regenerative transitions, co-founder of Planton Farm, and expert in place-based regenerative design.
Supporting Expertise
Clare, Henry and Caroline deliver the main teaching. We take you through a structured sequence over the two years, and that is the core of the programme.
Alongside it we invite guest speakers. Each one is chosen to add something to our own teaching, and they share a whole systems way of looking at land, food and business rather than a single specialism. Who comes changes from year to year, and some of them come back with new material.
You can join any live session for as long as you are part of R2R, including after your two years have finished. Over time that adds up to a lot more speakers than appear in any single year.
Below are some of the speakers appearing over the next two years.
Participant Reviews
“I’ve been blown away by the depth and richness of the R2R program. The combination of expert guidance from Caroline and Clare, along with the supportive community, has made this a truly unique learning experience. I’ve been able to apply the knowledge directly to our farming practices, and it’s given me the confidence to experiment and think more critically about our land management. The personalised support and the overall structure of the course have far exceeded my expectations.”
“R2R has been transformative, both intellectually and personally. The course content is challenging but brilliantly structured, and I’m working hard to apply what I’ve learned to our farm’s regeneration plans. The support from Caroline, and the wider community has also been a blessing, offering support and friendship with like-minded individuals. I now feel more ready to tackle the challenges ahead, knowing I have this network behind me.”
“The R2R experience has been incredibly enriching for me. Coming into the program with some gaps in my knowledge, I’ve been able to fill them with a confidence I didn’t have before. The group discussions have been so helpful, giving me validation on ideas I’ve had and providing a space where I feel comfortable asking questions. The program has given me not just the technical knowledge I need, but also a renewed sense of confidence in applying these insights to my work.”
“This course has completely transformed how I approach farming and business. The in-depth, practical content is accessible, even for someone like me without a farming background. What stood out the most was the mindset shift it triggered, helping me see the bigger picture and focus on sustainability. The community aspect is also amazing—meeting like-minded people and feeling part of something larger is a huge bonus. Overall, it’s been an enriching, eye-opening experience that’s shaped my business for the better.”
Due to the kind support of several funders we are able to offer several bursary places at a 50% discount. If finances pose a challenge for you, please let us know in your Consultation Call so we can explore available options.
Two-year programme.
plus VAT
10 month payment plans available.
We have several sponsored places available with 50% bursary places available.
- The full two-year programme
- All meals on the farm immersives, with accommodation for the 42 Acres retreat
- Lifetime access to the content library from both roots
- Your Rooting to Place report and unlimited Red Flag reports
- Expert coaching, the peer network, and membership of the R2R Fellows community
Enter your email for the full curriculum
Twenty-three pages: every module, both roots, all three immersives, and what it costs. You’ll also get a series of emails on how a regenerative transition actually works.
Free live sessions and bursary updates included. No obligation — unsubscribe at any time.
This programme is deeper and broader than any other regenerative agriculture training programme on the market.
R2R is not for everybody, and to fully benefit from it, you must have an open mind, the capacity to undertake comprehensive online training, and the flexibility to attend in-person events.
R2R is deeply place-based. Much of our work roots into the ecological and cultural lineage of these islands and the wider European landscape, and the in-person farm immersives are central to the experience. For that reason the programme is best suited to participants based in the UK and Europe.
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Climate chaos. Biodiversity collapse. Rural depopulation. These challenges require more than better practices—they need regenerative leaders who can weave together ecological, economic, and cultural regeneration.
Are you ready to discover your unique role in bioregional transformation?
Applications are open now and close on 31 January 2027. Book a free consultation, or join our mailing list for the full curriculum.
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