For all the talk about education preparing the next generation, one glaring omission remains: where does food come from, and how do we care for the land that sustains us?
Kids grow up learning math, history, and science, but regenerative agriculture? Indigenous land stewardship? Nothing.
And yet, those two things are arguably more important than half the subjects we drill into their heads—because food isn’t just a commodity, it’s a foundational part of survival.
Let’s get one thing straight: Indigenous communities weren’t just farming. They were cultivating entire ecosystems, understanding biodiversity, reading the land, and applying methods that worked harmoniously with nature instead of fighting against it. They weren’t depleting soil, monocropping land into dust, or replacing forests with endless rows of lifeless corn.
Meanwhile, modern agriculture is acting like high-input industrial systems are the peak of human innovation, when in reality, we’re sitting on an empire of soil degradation, water mismanagement, and complete dependence on synthetic inputs just to scrape by.
What if we actually taught kids how to farm properly?
Not just the factory-style agriculture that’s wrecking the planet, but how to regenerate land, how to respect soil ecosystems, how to recognize the wisdom in Indigenous practices that worked for thousands of years before modern farming turned everything into a numbers game.
Imagine a world where:
- Every child understands how to build healthy soil instead of strip it bare.
- Kids learn how to manage livestock holistically, not just see animals as factory-farmed units of production.
- Students are taught to recognize the land’s natural rhythms, rather than force crops through synthetic cycles.
- Indigenous knowledge is restored, respected, and actively incorporated into mainstream education.
But we won’t get there if we keep treating farming like some outdated trade skill that only matters if you plan to work in agriculture.
Regenerative agriculture needs to be part of the curriculum—starting in elementary school, reinforced through every stage of learning, woven into the foundation of education itself.
Because if we keep raising kids who don’t understand food production beyond supermarket shelves, we’re setting up a future where our land, water, and ecosystems continue to collapse under the weight of ignorance.
What do you think? Should food production and land stewardship be fundamental subjects in school? Pull up a chair—let’s talk about why our education system needs a serious overhaul.
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