§ 4962.
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§ 4962. 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.)