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Already helping deliver $2.89M to more than 200 farmers across 12 states.
Fuel a farmer today.
Support the farmers restoring soil health across America.
Already helping deliver $2.89M to more than 200 farmers across 12 states.
Impact in agriculture isn't easy. Why?
Farmers take on real financial risk before results are visible.
Soil resilience is built over seasons, not quarters.
Regenerative transitions can cost up to $100 per acre each year before payback.
Payments for carbon and regenerative outcomes can take 6 to 18 months to arrive.
Carbon revenue helps farmers stay the course long enough for the benefits to take hold.
This year, I've spent time with farmers across the country, listening, sharing what carbon programs can do, and often feeling less like an advocate and more like a grief counselor.
Many farmers are working sixteen-hour days all season, only to face the winter knowing they won't turn a profit. They'll walk into their banks hoping their debt can be rolled forward, even as input costs rise and commodity prices fall. For many, that request will be denied.
Agriculture is often called America's backbone, but that spine is weakening, and I don't know how much more stress the American farmer can carry.
Josh McClain, regenerative farmer and Creekside co-founder
Real farmers. Real land. Real work.
The Gambles, New Zion, South Carolina
Jason is a sixth-generation farmer who has spent his life working the same South Carolina land his family has stewarded for generations. His goal is simple: leave it in better condition for those who come after him.
He grows corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, and small grains, while also raising cattle, chickens, and turkeys on the family farm. Since returning from college, Jason has embraced regenerative practices including reduced tillage, cover crops, precision soil management, and the use of natural fertilizers and livestock manure to improve soil health and fertility.
Jason believes farmers are the original environmental stewards. His biggest challenges include razor-thin margins, rising fuel and transportation costs, and the growing economic pressure facing family farms today.
Where your contribution goes
Helps farmers access carbon payments sooner, not years later.
Supports practices like cover crops, reduced tillage, and rotational grazing.
Keeps more value and opportunity in working agricultural landscapes.
Across the country, farmers are rebuilding soil through practices like cover crops, reduced tillage, and rotational grazing. These practices improve soil health, retain more water, and strengthen the long-term resilience of working lands. Your support helps ensure this work continues.
What each level includes
$25 · Support a Farmer
Support regenerative agriculture and receive seasonal stories and updates from the field. This level does not include a direct opportunity to meet the farmer.
$50 · Make a Verified Impact
Support farmers while funding the retirement of a verified carbon credit. Credits are pooled and retired in batches, after which contributors receive a Creekside Impact Record.
$100 · Wear Your Contribution
Receive a Creekside Carbon hat.
$250 · Meet a Farmer
Receive an invitation to a virtual conversation with Jason Gamble and learn directly about his farm and regenerative agriculture.
$500 · Come to the Farm
Receive an exclusive invitation to the 2027 Creekside Carbon Retreat in Kansas and experience regenerative agriculture firsthand.
How soil health shows up in your life.
- Your health Modern food often contains fewer nutrients than it once did.
- Your wallet Poor soil health can increase food costs over time.
- Your water Healthy soil holds water. Degraded soil leads to more drought and flooding.
- Your future By 2050, we may be producing less food, fuel, and fiber for a growing population.
Research supported by the FAO, USDA, World Bank, and IPBES.
CAR-certified credits retired
Third-party verified credits permanently retired, giving supporters confidence that their impact is real and accountable.
In partnership with Firebolt Ag. Trusted by farmers across the midwest.
"We were doing it for soil health to benefit our crops, and then to be able to get that check and be able to reap some rewards from what we're doing, that's a bonus above and beyond what we were even thinking we were doing. So that definitely comes in at a good time here, planting season, to get that check."
Zan Tomlinson, South Carolina farmer