a Table-to-Farm approach

ZFP Member Businesses simply commit to adding 1% to their prices or ticket totals which is then donated to local non-profits that coordinate grants for local farmers.

The ‘micro-grants’ that you collect through your customers will pay for carbon farming projects and improved regenerative farming practices, like jumpstarting soil biology with many tons of compost.

You are committing to donating 1% of your annual revenue, and are free to build this into your business in the best way that serves you; i.e. invisibly increasing your menu prices, adding an opt-out service fee to ticket totals, or a mandatory service charge.

Regenerative agriculture & Compost

1. For too long, our approach to farming has come down to extracting the highest yield at the cheapest price—but this is not sustainable for any of us. The current food economy and government subsidies for unhealthy soil actively harm farmers, farmland, food quality and the environment.

2. Regenerative agriculture restores ecosystems through farming. Also known as carbon farming, the focus is on rebuilding the life of the soil, through practices like compost application, creating a positive feedback loop that could pull billions of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere and be a primary climate solution.

3. Healthy soil also produces ingredients that are tastier, more nutritious, and more resilient to extreme weather caused by climate change. But we need impactful frameworks to scale change on acres and fund infrastructure. The current farm to table movement has only shifted <3% of CA acres to “organic” (<2% in the US or around the world).