California Soil Restoration Project

Interested in increasing your profits and restoring your soil?

Growers of permanent crops in California may be able to earn up to $100/year/acre for practices that promote soil health by joining the California Soil Restoration Project.

Watch our webinar on demand to learn more about the California Soil Restoration Project.

Learn about:

  • The case for carbon credits

  • The benefit of sustainable practices

  • The unique solution the California Soil Restoration Project will provide

  • Your role in bringing the CSRP to life

Growers who participate in the California Soil Restoration Project agree to:

  • Implement eligible carbon-storing practices that work for their operation, such as

    • Keeping continuous living cover on the soil with annual or perennial plants

    • Minimizing tillage

    • Incorporating vine and tree biomass into the soil at redevelopment as either chips or biochar

  • Enroll fields with eligible practices in the project using the project tracking system

  • Provide access to enrolled fields for soil sample collection

  • Update field information when practices change

The CSRP Project Manager agrees to:

  • Develop a project design and execution plan that meets Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) standards

  • Secure investors to fund the development phase of the project

  • Contract with a certified “Verification and Validation Body” to audit the project plan

  • Develop and maintain a tracking system for reporting the activities of project participants

  • Create soil sampling plans that meet the most rigorous standards for quantifying changes in Soil Organic Carbon stocks in fields

  • Manage the collection, analysis, and reporting of soil samples from enrolled fields

  • Manage carbon credit accounting to VCM standards, including annual estimation of carbon removal, calculation of uncertainty deductions and tracking of buffer pools

  • Issue and register CDR credits

  • Negotiate CDR purchase agreements with corporate buyers

  • Report CDR portfolio performance to buyers

  • Collect payments from buyers and distribute funds to participating growers

  • Retain an auditor to certify ongoing compliance of the project with the Project Design

  • Monitor fields for reversals of the eligible practices for 40 years

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