Working since 2016
We restore degraded farmland across the lower Maritsa and the Danube plain, one parcel at a time, and we publish the numbers with the method beside them. Measured restoration, not promises.
Land restoration programs, soil and water monitoring, and transition advisory for landowners, food companies, and municipalities.
What we do
We take on land we can measure, plan it parcel by parcel, and report what happens. Where we cannot measure honestly, we say no.
Multi-year plans per parcel: cover crops, no-till, agroforestry, riparian repair, grazing where it fits.
ScopeWe take on ground we can measure. If a parcel cannot be sampled properly, we say so and we do not sign it.
Soil organic matter, infiltration, biodiversity counts, sampled to a fixed protocol and published every season.
ScopeWe report the mean, not the best parcel. Numbers that are not yet measured are marked as not yet measured.
For landowners and food companies moving to regenerative practice without a full program: the plan, the baseline, the risks.
ScopeAdvice is advice. We will tell you when a piece of ground is not worth the transition cost this decade.
Projects
From the black-earth of the Dobrudzha to the forest margin of the Strandzha. Select a project to read its dossier: what we do there, and the note from the last visit.
Project 01 of 06
North-east, near Dobrich
Practice mix
Field note
The chernozem here was never poor, it was tired. Three seasons of no-till and a winter cover mix and the topsoil holds together in the hand again. The windbreaks are the slow part: poplar and wild pear, planted in the gaps the collective farms cleared.
Impact, reported
Every figure carries how it was measured and what it does not count. A restoration number without its method is a marketing number. These are aggregates across the six projects, updated each season.
Land under restoration
Across six projects
Soil organic matter, mean gain
Against a 2017 baseline
Infiltration gain per storm
On treated parcels
Biodiversity, Simpson index
Ground-nesting birds and pollinators
Method
The same order on every parcel, because a number you can trust comes from a method you can repeat. Nothing here is proprietary. It is just done, every season, the same way.
Before a single practice changes, we sample the ground and mark the rings. Soil organic matter, texture, infiltration, bulk density. That is the number everything after is measured against.
No template. Each parcel gets a practice mix chosen for its slope, its soil, and what the owner needs the land to still earn. We write down what we expect and by when.
Four visits a year on fixed transects. Same points, same instruments, same season, so a change in the reading is a change in the ground and not a change in how we looked at it.
Every season we publish what we measured, including the parcels that did not move and the ones that went backwards. The owner gets it first. Then it goes on the record.
Field notes
What the reports summarize, the notebook records first. Three entries from the last visits, in the words of the people who were there.
First worm count of the year on the north block: 214 in the square, up from 60-odd at baseline. The soil smells right again, which is not a number but you learn to trust it. Cover crop is knee-high and we will roll it flat, not spray it, before the maize goes in.
The river came up on the 2nd and did exactly what the buffer was built for: spread into the wet meadow, dropped its silt there, and stayed out of the lower field. Two years ago that water was in the road. We logged the flood mark and moved on.
Last graze of the season on the upper pasture. The oak seedlings we caged in spring are holding. Contour bunds full after the October rain, which is the point of them. Pulled the herd off early this year to leave more cover standing for winter.
About
Poima is a small firm that restores worn farmland and reports what happens to it. We are agronomists, a soil scientist, and the people who drive the samples to the lab.
We work for the landowner, not against them. A restored parcel still has to earn, or the owner sells it and the work is undone. So the plans are built to pay their way inside a decade, and the reporting is honest enough that the owner can defend it to a bank.
We sample to a protocol held with the Agricultural University of Plovdiv, and we report to the landowners and municipalities we work for. No offset market, no carbon claim we cannot walk you to and show you.