The grain we sell is the grain we feed our own children.
H2 Agri is a family farm. Hendrik Odendaal farms Welgevonden, near Standerton in Mpumalanga, on land his family has worked for generations, and he has moved it over to regenerative practice: no tillage, permanent cover and careful rotation. He could see what the old way was costing the soil.
That change started in 2007. It was not a switch that got flipped. The old practices were phased out one at a time, over seasons, as the soil could carry it. Nearly twenty years on, the way the land holds water and feeds a crop is not the same land it was.
It is slower, it takes more thought, and it means going without the chemicals most farms rely on. We do it because the soil is what we are handing over, and we would rather hand over something better than we found.
