After four years as a stockbroker in London, Angus McIntosh felt compelled to return to a more grounded life in South Africa. While reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, and learning about Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms in the U.S., Angus committed to becoming a regenerative farmer. In 2008 he began farming on the Spier Estate near Stellenbosch. Farmer Angus products are now sold in supermarkets across South Africa and are sought after by chefs, health nuts, tree huggers, foodies, families and all kinds of wonderful folks.
In 2014 Angus became one of the world’s first farmers to sell carbon credits from the pastures where his cattle graze. Since then, Angus and his team have been able to achieve additional carbon sequestration and earn additional income in every three-year measuring and audit cycle. In 2020 Kasango Murehwa Samkute received his share of the income from these carbon credits and was able to put down a deposit on his family’s first house. (Read more about this here.)
To read the audit reports of Farmer Angus’s carbon credit sales please click here.