Better food.
Thriving farms.
Restored climate.

About Zero Foodprint

Zero Foodprint is a 501(c)(3) organization restoring the climate, one acre at a time.

When we got started, we set out to help restaurants reduce their climate impacts. After crunching the numbers, one thing became clear: most of a meal’s greenhouse gas emissions happen before the ingredients even make it to a restaurant. We realized that the fastest way to reduce the emissions in the food system is to change how food is grown.

That isn’t as easy as it sounds. We talked to hundreds of farmers who said they needed more resources to transition to regenerative practices – from technical assistance to cost-sharing and accessible funding. So we began building a movement with chefs, farmers, scientists, and regional governments to work to change the food system from the ground up.

And it all comes down to this thing we call Collective Regeneration.

Collective Regeneration

Graphic of restaurants generating collective action and farms implementing regenerative farming practices, for Zero Foodprint

Collective Action

It’s not easy to generate the funding needed to grow better food and fight climate change. And let’s be honest: everyone thinks someone else should be doing it. But after decades of climate initiatives, it’s become clear that nobody can do it alone.

Zero Foodprint pools contributions from all different parts of the food system to make dollars go further. We then equitably distribute those funds via grants to farmers. Whether you grow food, sell food, or eat food, your contributions help solve the climate crisis by directly funding better farm practices.

Regenerative Food Systems

Farms are positioned to create meaningful climate impact by implementing carbon sequestration practices like composting, cover cropping, and hedgerow planting. These practices take time, labor, and resources to establish, and historically farms have been expected to bear the brunt of the financial risk to change their practices.

Zero Foodprint makes it easy and accessible for farms to prioritize climate-smart practices by awarding grants that build healthy soil and draw down carbon. Our process is easy and transparent for farmers, but rigorous enough for government collaboration.

From the

Ground up.

Delicious ingredients, better nutrition, and farm welfare all start with healthy soil. To build a better system, we need to start from the ground up. Literally.

Call it regenerative, call it climate smart, call it carbon farming – the important thing is that farmers are building healthy soil, and putting carbon back into the ground.

Better
Together.

Zero Foodprint is a vetted environmental partner with 1% for the Planet and the recipient of the 2020 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year award.

Our work contributes to goals outlined by Project Drawdown, as well as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 2, 12, and 13.

Our mission doesn’t just depend on people like you - it depends on you.
Almost all of us can afford to make this change, and the truth is,
we can’t afford not to make it.

Better foods, thriving farms, and a restored climate start with you.