Restoration Agriculture Development was spawned out of the energy and inspiration of last year’s Permaculture Voices conference. Mark, Jordan, and Kevin, the co-founders of the company, have assembled a team of designers and business professionals to scale and take advantage of the large opportunity within regenerative agriculture. In this talk, these three agripreneurs will be speaking about the business model for Restoration Agriculture Development, and how each of their skillsets have combined to create a potent team. Topics will include: regenerative agriculture land investment, the future of Restoration Agriculture, impact investments for regenerative agriculture, community development. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com.

3. Restoration Agriculture Development, Inc.
• Restoration Agriculture Development is an ecological farmland
design/install and investment firm for a better future
• Services:
1. whole farm planning
2. water management design
3. food system development
4. tree crop development
5. processing equipment
6. RA Farm Installation

4. RAD Core Team

5. RAD Pioneer Program
• Learn through “doing”

6. Design/Install & Development
Design & Install
• Conceptual design
• Water management
• Tree planting
• Biological monitoring
Development
• Invest in farmland
• 40 acre homestead
• 380 acres under contract

7. Step 1: Identify Your Biome
(both human and land based)

8. Step 2: Water Management

9. Step 3: Trees, Building, Fences

10. Step 4: Management & Marketing
1. Agroforestry Practices
• Alleycropping, windbreaks, forest farming,
silvopasture, riparian buffers
2. Holistic Management
• Holistic Planned Grazing
3. Marketing
• Direct to consumer, wholesale, farmer owned
aggregation companies

11. Step 5: Energy
• Troy Martz: Energy Crop Specialist
• Wood Gas, Wind, Biochar, Solar

13. Research w/ the Savanna Institute

14. Customers
• Large Farms
• Large Corporate Clients
• Scale is important
• 1000 acre farm for Alcoa

15. Restoration Agriculture International, Inc.
- RAI is a business concept
- Vision: A farmer owned aggregation, marketing, and
distribution company for the Restoration Agriculture
and tree crops economy
- Mission: Market driver for perennial crops such as
chestnuts, hazelnuts, acorns, currants
- Structure: C-corporation with a vision for shared
ownership across many stakeholders.
- Inspiration from Organic Valley

16. Core Team

17. Efficiency + Value Adding = Profitability
=+

18. RAI: Restoration Agriculture
International, Inc.
• Farmer-owned aggregation company that
value adds these product to make

20. Vertically Integrated

21. Thank You
Contact details:
info@radpioneers.com
Radpioneers.com
Theraicollaborative.com
jordan@radpioneers.com