COVERYOURSOIL flips the script: farmers stop being “end-users” and become co-authors of living experiments, scientists leave the lab to negotiate with worms and weather, and policymakers are forced to confront the gap between regulation and reality. Developed through interconnected Living Lab nodes in Poland, Romania, and the Canarias Islands, the project grounds its ambition in diverse territorial realities rather than abstract models. Here, cover crops are not a technique—they are a form of resistance against extractive agriculture and short-term thinking.
If soil is the foundation of life, why is it still treated as an afterthought in policy and markets? This pathway insists on uncomfortable answers. It exposes the fiction that regeneration can happen without redistributing knowledge and decision-making. It bets on relational capital over abstract metrics, while still demanding hard evidence. It asks whether we are ready to pay; not just financially, but politicallyfor living soils. And it quietly suggests that the real experiment is not in the fields, but in how we choose to govern the ground beneath our feet.
