Agricultural Land Restoration / Rural Region Revitalization

Your community's sustainable revitalization program should eventually encompass your entire region for maximum effectiveness.  But, it can start with a primary focus on any of the 12 sectors of restorable assets, at any scale.  If yours is a rural community, restoring your agricultural lands might be the logical places to begin. 

If you already a strong rural renewal organization, it could be an ideal sponsor for your community's (or region's) Real Revitalization Program.  Is this organization trusted and effective?  Does it wish to take an even larger, longer-term role in the area's future? If so, sponsoring the Real Revitalization Program is also the best way to help it create (or become) a revitalization forum. 

A revitalization forum is a permanent public-private organization that supports an ongoing revitalization program.  [Note: Readers of reWealth (McGraw-Hill, 2008) will recognize this type of organization as what that book technically referred to as a "renewal engine". It was revealed as the key factor behind the most dramatic urban regeneration success stories documented in reWealth.]

Definition & overview: There's no formal definition of agricultural restoration, as it can focus on a number of restorable functions and assets, such as topsoil quantity & quality, loss of nutrients, health of surrounding ecosystems (including soil communities) that can contribute to productivity (such as through native pollinators, native pest predators, etc.), economic viability of the farm, socioeconomic viability of a rural area, etc.