Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture at Cooks Venture

Silvopasture
Silvopasture incorporates pasture, animal grazing, and trees within one system. Pastures with trees produce greater soil diversity and ecosystem health, provide more shade, roosting, and forage options for our birds, and sequester as much as 5 to 10 times the carbon as treeless fields.
We have planted 21,000 hazelnuts across our farms, and have planted more than 1000 fruit trees, including peaches, plums, pears, pawpaws (North America’s only native tropical fruit!), and heirloom varieties of Arkansas apples. This year we will also plant hundreds of native trees – such as willows, poplars, persimmon, and black locust – on our partner farms.

Regenerative Feed
Cooks Venture works with regional row crop farmers to grow non-GMO feed using regenerative farming practices. None of our feed grain is imported! We’re also developing a radically diversified feed that will further improve bird and soil health and help farmers transition to organic practices, the first regenerative poultry feed system in the industry. This program is a critical step for impacting significant acreage currently in conventional, soil depleting systems. It’s all connected. Our Pioneer breed has a healthy digestive system that enables the birds to thrive on a varied diet. Better for the bird! Better for the land! Better for the farmer!
Cooks Venture is proud to be part of the Regenerate America Coalition with Kiss The Ground. More details about this exciting campaign coming in Spring 2022!