Peter Byck

Peter Byck

2024

Peter Byck is leading a $10 million research project comparing Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing with conventional grazing; collaborating with 20 scientists and 10 farm families, focused on soil health & soil carbon storage, GHG cycling, microbial/bug/bird biodiversity & water cycling. The research includes a 4-part docuseries, “Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there),” directed by Byck, which is about the inventive farmers and maverick scientists building a regenerative path to solving climate.  View the trailer and CNN segment.

 Byck is a professor of practice at Arizona State University, where he teaches students to make short documentary films about sustainability solutions.  He is the creator of carbon nationand the short doc series carbon cowboys.