Native’s organic farming and milling operation known worldwide as the Green Cane Project is an excellent and innovative example of integrating different parts of an agricultural organism.

The Green Cane Project’s agricultural model releases the ecological potential of the sugarcane culture in the following ways:

* Abolishing the practice of burning cane;

* Adopting natural methods of crop protection;

* Restoring native vegetation “green ways” while preserving aquifers and preventing erosion;

* Incorporating processing activities into the natural cycle through recycling on farm byproducts as organic fertilizers.

In practice, this process is energy self-sufficient due to the minimal use of external nutrient sources.

Over more than two decades of implementing this system, Native’s Green Cane Project has consistently experienced an intense increase of vitality, represented by the gain of agricultural productivity, stronger resistance to plagues, diseases and adverse climate conditions.

We have experienced the added benefit of an explosion of biodiversity in the fauna on our farms and an increased quality of our well water.

These surprising results confirm Rudolf Steiner’s ideas and have prompted Native to turn some of our farms into the Biodynamic systems of production.