As used in this subchapter:

1. (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. (2) “Regenerative farming” means a series of cropland management practices that:

   1. (A) contributes to generating or building soils and soil fertility and health;
   2. (B) increases water percolation, increases water retention, and increases the amount of clean water running off farms;
   3. (C) increases biodiversity and ecosystem health and resiliency; and
   4. (D) sequesters carbon in agricultural soils.

(Added 2019, No. 64, § 11.)