Measuring energy flows in ecosystems is emerging as a possible novel way to measure their health, helping understand elements such as diversity and function under one metric. Applying this framework to soil could offer a promising approach to quantify ecosystem change following interventions, allowing us to follow the cascade of ecological impacts that create differences to soil health over time. In this session, we will explore this soil energetics framework and present results from our first field trials at FarmED on the regenerative arable rotation, quantifying the restorative effects of herbal leys, and a wider potential roll out.