Regenerative Wheat Standards

The Green Farm Collective Scheme Standards

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The Green Farm Collective mission is to build a community that invests in and offsets personal and business environmental footprints in nature-enhancing projects. 

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Our network of British farmers are creating and managing nature and carbon-enhancing projects on their farm through adopting practices which encourage nature, build soil health and increase carbon storage and protect the countryside's watercourses. 

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The Scheme standards

The Scheme consists of a set of standards which farmers, who are an approved member of a baseline scheme, apply to join and agree to adopt and comply with through self-assessment, reviews, and independently conducted spot-checks.  The standards include:

• written, established, and implemented soil management plan, long-term cropping plan, plant health policy, biodiversity policy, and water management policy

• a nutrient management plan

• no more than 180 kg/ha total nitrogen

• maximum single dose of 45 kg/ha of nitrogen

• no untreated sewage sludge

• treated biosolids applied in accordance with The Safe Sludge Matrix and not more than once in 5 years

• use of PAS 100 certified composts and PAS 110 digestate

• no paper waste unless composed on farm

• minimum of four month matured farmyard manure, unless mechanically composted

• diverse crop rotation

• minimal soil disturbance and root/ vegetable crops not grown more frequently than 1 year in 7

• justified synthetic input usage & records maintained

• no pre-harvest glyphosate

• use of amino acid with, or within 7 days post spring applications of sulfonylurea herbicides

• no herbicides after GS39 (full flag leaf emergence)