Definitions As used in this subchapter:(1) 'Certified Vermont Environmental Steward' means an owner or operator of a farm who has achieved the thresholds for the Vermont Environmental Stewardship Program to be certified as a farm that improves soil health and contributes to improving water quality. (2) 'Regenerative farming' means a series of cropland management practices that:(A) contributes to generating or building soils and soil fertility and health;(B) increases water percolation, increases water retention, and increases the amount of clean water running off farms; (C) increases biodiversity and ecosystem health and resiliency; and(D) sequesters carbon in agricultural soils. (Added 2019, No. 64, § 11.)
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