Regenerative agriculture is a sub-sector practice of organic farming designed to build soil health or to regenerate unhealthy soils. The practices associated with regenerative agriculture are those identified with other approaches to organic farming, including maintaining a high percentage of organic matter in soils, minimum tillage, biodiversity, composting, mulching, crop rotation, cover crops, and green manures.

Regenerative v. Organic Agriculture

In the past, regenerative farming was seen as a long-term integrated approach that proponents used to build soil health, promote nutrient retention, and encourage pest and disease resistance. Many of the practices associated with regenerative farming are management practices associated with organic agriculture . In practice, these practices can be applied in any type of horticulture and properly managed livestock with Holistic Planned Grazing (Savory & Butterfield Holistic Management -A new decision making framework) where one of the main goals is to build soil organic matter, an organic practice understood by practitioners of organic farming to have far reaching benefits for plant health and farm sustainability. When combined with the spirit of organic agriculture such practices are said to produce healthy soil, healthy food, clean water and clean air using inexpensive inputs local to the farm. Practices that minimize biota disturbance and erosion losses while incorporating carbon rich amendments and retaining the biomass of roots and shoots are encouraged in regenerative farming.

Regeneration is renewal through the internal processes of a body or system. Something which embodies this action can be described as regenerative. Many titles of cultural work and cultural and scientific concepts use the term, and may refer to:

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Regenerative design is a process-oriented systems theory based approach to design. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore, renew or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials, creating sustainable systems that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. The basis is derived from systems ecology with a closed loop input–output model or a model in which the output is greater than or equal to the input with all outputs viable and all inputs accounted for. Regenerative design is the biomimicry of ecosystems that provide for all human systems to function as a closed viable ecological economics system for all industry. It parallels ecosystems in that organic (biotic) and synthetic (abiotic) material is not just metabolized but metamorphosed into new viable materials. Ecosystems and regeneratively designed systems are holistic frameworks that seek to create systems that are absolutely waste free. The model is meant to be applied to many different aspects of human habitation such as urban environments, buildings, economics, industry and social systems. Simply put, it is the design of ecosystems and human behavior, or culture that function as human habitats.