Farm & Ranch
Consulting
We help farmers and ranchers transition to and thrive in regenerative agriculture through technical and financial assistance.
How We Work
We work with beginning farmers, established ranchers, and everyone in between. What matters is your curiosity and commitment towards regeneration. We start by meeting you where you are, listening, and helping you articulate your vision, goals, and context. We go deep when the work calls for it, assessing land, water, infrastructure, and management systems. And we’re just as ready to help you check off the next thing on your list and keep moving. From there, we support practical, farm-specific improvements that are steward-led, ones that build soil health, strengthen ecological resilience, and align with real business goals, whether that’s redesigning a grazing rotation, restructuring a financial model, or connecting you to capital and peers.
Technical Assistance
We take a holistic approach to farm and ranch consulting, working alongside land stewards to understand their land, their operation, and their goals. Our support spans the full breadth of regenerative practice, from the soil up.
How We Can Support
Farm Planning
We design holistic land-use plans that improve soil health, water efficiency, biodiversity, and long-term farm viability, combining ecological principles with practical, farm-specific infrastructure planning.
Livestock Management
We support producers in building regenerative grazing systems that improve soil health, forage diversity, and livestock productivity, while balancing ecological function, economic viability, and producer goals.
Crop & Soil Health
We help improve soil fertility, crop resilience, and nutrient cycling through regenerative management strategies that build long-term productivity and reduce input dependence.
Business Planning & Support
We help farmers build profitable, resilient regenerative enterprises by aligning business planning, financing, market strategy, and infrastructure with ecological, economic, and social outcomes, including support with grants.
Education & Professional Development
We support farmers through hands-on learning and peer-to-peer collaboration; hosting field days, walking the fields, digging soil pits, and sitting down at the kitchen table.
Financial Assistance
The Regenerative Catalyst Fund provides grants and 0% loans for farmers and ranchers ready to grow. In 2024, Mad Agriculture launched the Regenerative Catalyst Fund (RCF) to provide financial assistance to existing and transitioning regenerative farmers and ranchers to implement projects that catalyze growth and resilience both on the land and in their businesses. RCF is a nimble funding mechanism that allows producers to implement regenerative practices from infrastructure and equipment to financial planning and grant writing. Funds are deployed through grants, 0% loans, or a combination of both and deployed on a case by case basis.
Our Farmers
Working with Mad Agriculture has been a game changer for Wonderful People Microfarm. They supported us in securing funding for our wash/pack station, offered thoughtful technical assistance with crop planning and business development, and connected us to an incredible network of farmers and resources. Their commitment to farmer success and community is real, and we’re deeply grateful.
None of the work that we do would be possible without support from groups like Mad Agriculture. We started this business with nothing, and having very little debt wouldn’t have been possible without Mad Ag’s support. That continues to push us to keep going.
A special thank you to Mad Agriculture for suggesting this path and for holding such a steady belief in what we are building. It means so much to me that ZAFA’s vision was seen and supported in this way, not just as a business effort but as a reflection of our shared values in land stewardship, farming, and community.
Mad Agriculture’s support has improved my quality of life. Through their ability to share resources my business has created new markets for local organic farmers, created new products for community businesses to sell, and therefore invested in the resiliency of local food systems and rural communities. Mad Agriculture does more than provide assistance to farmers, they are a catalyst in a greater movement that seeks to create a world in which clean water and wild spaces can exist alongside local food and agribusiness.
Mad Agriculture understands that stewardship is about long-term care, not just outputs. Their support helps small farms restore land, pay livable wages, and recover balance after disruption. By showing up for the unglamorous, necessary work of regeneration, Mad Agriculture makes it possible for farms like ours to keep going.
Mad Agriculture has improved my farm business' viability by providing valuable advice on farming techniques, business structure, and access to resources to regenerate the land.
From The Field
We advance the regenerative revolution by helping farmers and ranchers transform land, practices, and communities, while telling the stories that inspire the world to join them.
STORY
Meeting Jody and Crystal Manuel was a pleasure and an honor. They are so determined to succeed as agrarians by creating new products and ways to bring healthy food to families. We sat around the table and listened as they shared their journey around innovation and education.
STORY
Mad Media producer, Jonnah Perkins, sat down with Sarah Jones, of Jones Farms Organics, to learn about what it’s like to grow potatoes in an alpine valley ecosystem and why Sarah is so passionate about rye. Their conversation spanned mountains, deserts, and motherhood, and ultimately landed on why a farmer would buy a gas station diner.
FILM
Matthew Raiford is a farmer and chef, who looks at his farm through the lens of legacy. Matthew is a sixth-generation farmer working the land on Gilliard Farms - land that has been in his family since 1874. Matthew’s wife, Tia Raiford, is a chef and slow-food champion, and together they look at their farm as an opportunity to grow their vision for the land and farm business.
STORY
With the help of our MAD! Fellows, our team ventured out to Haystack Farms in Boulder County, to do some tree planting. We dug some holes, planted some aspens and chokecherries, covered them up with woodchips, and watered them down.
The Regenerative Stewardship Curriculum
The Regenerative Stewardship Curriculum is designed to help all who are interested in regeneration to gain a better understanding of how one’s land and business can commit and contribute to regenerative agriculture.
