Toronto-based Open Farm Pet, co-founded by Jacqueline Prehogan, is reinforcing its commitment to sustainability.
The company, featured in Vintage Altaroc Odyssey 2021, specializes in high-quality pet food, recognized for its strictest adherence to environmental standards and ethical sourcing.Building on more than 9 years of leadership in sustainability and ethical sourcing, Open Farm earlier this month became the first pet food company to set a goal for regenerative agriculture.
It has just committed to advancing its regenerative agriculture practices on one million hectares of farmland by 2030. Regenerative agriculture adopts an approach focused on preserving soils and their crucial role in storing the water cycle and the nutritional quality of food.
This commitment is part of a global movement towards a more sustainable, nature-positive and net-zero world, as highlighted in a new report just released at Climate Week in New York. The report underlines that "the intensification of regenerative agriculture by consumer industries is the fastest route to a nature-positive, net-zero and resilient world".
Open Farm Pet is committed to building a resilient supply chain with its Partner farmers and breeders. In 2022, the company sourced 550,000 acres of land, including 100,000 acres dedicated to regenerative agriculture.
Preserving land
"The pressing challenges we face, such as topsoil loss, biodiversity loss and the climate crisis, are caused by a handful of factors, but agriculture can play a role in mitigating the impacts and we are delighted to be working with farmers to contribute to positive change," explains the company.
Since farmers began tilling the soil for weed control and seedbed preparation 160 years ago, the American Midwest has lost nearly 60 billion tons of topsoil to erosion. When topsoil erodes, so do the nutrients crops need, making it harder and more expensive to grow nutritious crops. Ploughing is also one of the ways in which carbon stored in the soil is released into the atmosphere, contributing to the climate crisis. Regenerative farming practices, such as crop rotation, planting cover crops like winter wheat or creating buffer zones at the edges of fields, help to restore root systems and absorb carbon into the soil.
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