Hope Stories for the Heartland

America's soil is sick, but with a regenerative approach to farming and ranching, the world's breadbasket is already beginning to recover.

Hope Stories are an effort of the Graze Master Group to bring real rural stories to life. They're stories lived by entrepreneurs, innovators, farmers, ranchers, global business leaders, optimists, realists, thinkers, and doers who have one important thing in common: an understanding of how sick our soil has become. And how to heal it.

Our soil needs saving and renewing. Those who plant seeds understand the damage depleted soil can inflict. Destroy soil's natural biodiversity and the crops grown in it will be inferior, both in quality and yield.

These stories are messages to the future from voices we admire who are willing to look at the rural reality for what it is and make changes that balance nature and profitability on their farms and ranches. These "salt of the earth" people are displaying leadership and courage-qualities desperately needed if we are to recover, regenerate, and renew.