Regenerative agriculture design.
Nutritional and medicinal ecology.
Reconnecting to land-based wisdom.
SalsolaSalsola Officinalis (above) is an extremely regenerative medicinal shrub, native to Mediterranean regions, with the ability to pioneer degraded territory, enrich soil with nutrients, and nourish both humans and animals. Just like us.
Salsola is a boutique agri-ecological consulting group for the design and implementation of living systems, based on a paradigm of mutual flourishing. We emphasize biology oriented low-tech, nutrient density, local and indigenous land stewardship practices, nature based solutions, and inter-relational processes to establish localized resilience in the face of drastically changing climate and systemic circumstances.
We work with private landowners, farmers, and public entities to simultaneously restore ecosystem vitality, produce crops holistically, and design food production systems based on local human and environmental realities. Our design processes considers local resource availability and sustainability, striving to create closed loop systems in which inputs incrementally decrease over time.
“We often speak of ‘producing food,’ but farmers do not produce food of life. Only nature has the power to produce something from nothing. Farmers merely assist nature.”
Manasobu Fukuoka
Our approach combines design and implementation with education and paradigm shift, so that our work is not only ecologically sustainable, but attempts to embed nature-based practices back into our social structures. We acknowledge that the wisdom and tools to save our species already exists within humanity’s generational networks and in the intuitive connection with land, and our role at Salsola is to bring these tools into concrete practice in the field to nurture health and life for all beings.
Salsola is a social enterprise, meaning we do not generate profit from our work, but rather reinvest surplus funds into our organization either by offering scholarships in our educational programs, or subsidizing our services for projects with financial limitations. Our goal is to spread the knowledge and capacity for regenerative practices in agriculture, water management, and beyond, and to focus our efforts in regions that struggle most acutely with the challenges of climate change.
