Climate friendly agricultural practices preserve soil carbon and nutrients, reduce erosion and nutrient runoff while producing healthier food.

We collaborate with industry, research centers, agencies and environmental organizations to advance multidisciplinary and whole system management practices for agriculture.

Greenleaf Advisors projects advance sustainable and regenerative agriculture:
Healthy Soils for Healthy Waters Initiative
Soil and water research and policy leaders, headed by The Ohio State University with support from Greenleaf Advisors, LLC, Greenleaf Communities, NFP and the University of Arkansas launched the collaborative multi-year effort, organized around the development of data-driven, region-specific case studies highlighting best practices on agricultural soil health for water use efficiency, carbon sequestration and plant nutrient availability.

Gypsum as Watershed Management Best Practice
When our client, GYPSOIL, needed help reaching out to environmental groups and policy-makers regarding the benefits of gypsum as an agricultural soil amendment, they came to Greenleaf. We were able to promote better awareness of gypsum across many sectors. This resulted in an opportunity for GYPSOIL to engage with the highest levels of government and affect the future of agricultural policies and to expand its markets.

Perennial Biomass to Reduce Nitrates
Agricultural production in the Midwest has been associated with nutrient resource losses through water, causing eutrophication in Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, local impairment of drinking water sources, and Gulf Hypoxia. Greenleaf provided communications, development, and outreach for Argonne National Laboratory on its agricultural research in Illinois where they studied the growth of native grasses in otherwise unproductive farmland to produce bioenergy crops, thereby reducing nutrient pollutant flows into streams and sequestering greenhouse gases in soils.