Exemplary Webinars This Week: Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D., and Aria McLauchlan

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Seth Itzkan

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Jun 9, 2025, 4:28:38 PMJun 9
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Dear Friends,

As part of 10th anniversary celebrations for Soil4Climate (we started in June of 2015), we will be hosting a series of exemplary webinars this week (and all summer) to elevate leading voices in the science, policy, and practice of soil restoration as a climate, food security, and social welfare solution.

Don't miss these two this week (apologies for the late notice).

Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D. Ecdysis Foundation, Regen Ag Science & the 1,000 Farms Initiative
Tuesday, June 10, 4 PM EDT

Healthy Soils Legislation with Aria McLauchlan of Land Core
Wednesday, June 11, 3 PM EDT

The webinars will be on Zoom and streamed into the Soil4Climate Facebook group. Questions can be taken from either platform. Donations to the Soil4Climate fund for regenerative cropping and grazing in East Africa can be made here.

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Thank you,

- Seth


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Additional Information

Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D., Director at Ecdysis Foundation
Please join us on Tuesday, June 10th, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM EDT, for a Soil4Climate livestream discussion with a leader of the regenerative agriculture movement, entomologist Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D., Director at Ecdysis Foundation.

The interactive discussion will be on Zoom and streamed into the Soil4Climate Facebook group.

https://soil4climate-org.zoom.us/j/83263877550
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Soil4Climate/

Founder of Ecdysis Foundation, Lundgren is perhaps best known for his 1000 Farms Initiative, an ambitious, large-scale agricultural research effort launched in 2022. According to its website, “Ecdysis deploys teams to farms across North America to measure everything from biodiversity, soil carbon, and food nutrient content to the economic and sociological effects of various styles of land management.”

Among Lundgren’s discoveries is the paradigm-shifting realization that farms with the greatest number and diversity of insects suffer the least crop damage.

1,000 Farms Initiative | Ecdysis Foundation
https://www.ecdysis.bio/featured-project

A Six-legged March Toward Regenerative Agriculture
Jonathan Lundgren
(2017, 13 mins.)
https://youtu.be/qRJ0y9LMhI4

Beneficial Insects in Rangelands
Jonathan Lundgren
(2017, 42 mins.)
https://youtu.be/z7ZEX-HC1PE

Regenerative agriculture: merging farming and natural resource conservation profitably
Claire E. LaCanne, Jonathan G. Lundgren
February 26, 2018
https://peerj.com/articles/4428/

Regenerative management increases the efficacy of dung arthropod communities
Ryan B. Schmid, Kelton D. Welch, Jonathan G. Lundgren 2025
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-resource-management/articles/10.3389/fsrma.2025.1523963/full

Regenerative rangeland management improves honey bee health and productivity
Katya M. Busenitz, Ryan B. Schmid, Jonathan G. Lundgren 2025
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1555238/full
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Aria McLauchlan of Land Core
Please join Soil4Climate in our live discussion on healthy soils legislation with Aria McLauchlan of Land Core.

Over the last seven years, Land Core has worked with the USDA, legislators, soil scientists, NGOs and farmers across the country to develop federal legislation to address these issues. We’re identifying market-based strategies to monetize a producer’s investment in soil health, as well as focusing the national conversation around the necessity of soil health outcomes.

In her role at Land Core, Aria McLauchlan has shepherded the organization’s rise to the center of the national soil health conversation, including guiding the successful passage of language in both the House and Senate in 2019, supporting soil health at USDA, and building a broad coalition of farmers, businesses, and NGOs to help secure over $50M in federal investment in soil health in the 2018 Farm Bill.

This discussion will be live on Zoom and streamed into the Soil4Climate Facebook group. Questions can be taken from either platform.

Webinar Links
https://soil4climate-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-BI0-EncTP-4JjwaR6Onfg
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Soil4Climate/

Additional Resources
Land Core main site https://landcore.org/
US Federal Bill Tracker https://landcore.org/bill-tracker

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Seth J. Itzkan

Cofounder, Soil4Climate Inc.
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