Akkerbouwbedrijf Kaput is a conventional peat colony farm in Bellingwolde, East Groningen. Since 2020, steps have been taken towards regenerative agriculture. Now in 2024 we can say that we can be called regenerative, with sales in the conventional market for now. We are in the transition period, but we notice that every new step we take results in an improvement of our soil. Our main focus is to eliminate wrong actions or choices against nature. This will improve the soil and ultimately provide a harvestable product that contains all trace elements. Our goal is to produce food for the local population, which benefits human vitality.
Huge reductions are already taking place on our farm in the field of artificial fertilizers and crop protection products. But you can't just do this. In return, we add resources that stimulate soil development and support our crops in the transition period to go through the growing season in a vital way. Our crops also have a risk of disease or malnutrition, which we compensate for with ferments, vital manure, compost tea and trace elements. This stimulates the humus-forming processes.
But before that happens, we try to finance this transition period by means of CO2 certificates. With our actions, we take many risks and we regularly make choices that do not work out well. But without risk, there will be no transition.
We are preparing our entire arable farm of 190 hectares for the future. We capture carbon and we stimulate humus-forming processes. Humus, the basis for the vitality of our entire living environment.