Stories So Far.
My personal regenerative journey.
Wait, where have I been when? And what happened there that I want to remember? Sometimes, in order to make memories stick, let information become experience and knowledge, you need to write them down. I need to write them down. To be able to go back. To be able to reflect. These are insights, moments, and anecdotes about life, travels, and the people I have met and don’t want to forget.
Regeneration is about moving with the speed of life.
Regenerative agriculture is loud! Better and faster solutions, technologies, tools, and convincing outcomes. More and more are part of it and less against it. How could you? We need to be better and we better be fast! … Is that regeneration? I recently read that around 40 acres of fossil
Just for joy.
I have an envelope. It’s a bit battered and held together by a rubber band, sticky notes all around. The top reads “For Joy and Happiness only”. It started some years ago. Every time I got cash on Christmas from my parents, I’ve put it in the envelope to save
AI can’t solve this.
Someone told me lately that I could easily feed ChatGTP with a couple of sentences and words and would get handfuls of blog posts within seconds. Content well written to be published to create traction and more business. What did we become, I sometimes wonder. I like the thinking, drafting,
Strengthening community within community.
Strengthening community within community. On our way from France to Hungary, we made a short stopover in Slovenia. I wanted to see the farm of Tilen, experience his way of management the 14 ha – which is already considered “a bigger farm” in Slovenia. I had seen his maps in
Monitoring in Les Cévennes.
Two weeks are gone and we’re saying goodbye to Friendly Flock. Wait, did the ecological monitoring take that long? No, absolutely not. 1 or 2 days – depending on size and features of the land – are absolutely sufficient. But it is always about more than just monitoring. We see each
Defining myself is like confining myself.
“I can’t do this …” I heard myself saying to a friend 7 years ago, when my relationship broke. “For so long you said you wanted to go traveling. But there were all your ‘responsibilities’. They’re all gone. So…?” Since I was a kid, I have been open and sensitive
A place’s memory
A place’s memories 300 apple trees. 90 years old. Quirky looking. Loads of character. I’m walking underneath trees that my great-grandfather had planted for the future of his children. And their children. None of my distant cousins from this branch of the family tree still holds the place. Lost in gambling. Lost
Seeing with new eyes
This is me 6 years ago. When I traveled across the Pacific islands and absolutely fell in love with our world again. I started seeing with new eyes what I couldn’t just a year before when my life fell apart and I left the corporate career behind. Traveling gave me
This is not a spoon.
Well, technically it is.But this spoon is also a time machine. The spoon came to me during an intense self-sufficient hike . Nothing crazy like others do. But for me 10 days in the backcountry of Stewart Island, carrying all my food through deep mud, stream crossings and up and
Caring capacity
Sitting with the landscape. Listening.What do you hear? What do you feel? Is the land calling you? Or is it a different place? The land needs community.Wants a community. What care do you want to bring to the land? What is your role, your task in building community – in
What is mine to do.
It happens every time. Every time. When I am outside I become a different person. Something slows down. Something comes to peace.Being at peace with life.Weird. The quick, the fast, the „always reachable, always online“ not just takes a toll on our health – physically and mentally. It also quiets
Wintering
Wintering.When nature slows down.When a layer of snow can change how you see the world. Wintering gives time to slow down as the world around slows down.Yet, we still feel the need to rush. The go go go of our society.Although the world tells us to slow down. How can
Shifting perspectives. Hunting.
“It’s so crazy that you’ve done this. 5 years ago you still ate a vegan diet,” my friend texted me after I told her that I passed my hunter’s exam. Yes. A part of me just wants to be challenged again and again. Another part is really terrified by that. So,
All the stories so far...
- Your journey is your journey. – Midlife reflection Part 2
- Give kindness to yourself. – Midlife reflection Part 1
- As well as.
- Between years.
- Finding the North Star.
- Seeking sense-fulness.
- Developing your grazing strategy
- Brittleness, tools, and funding yourself.
- The city and its overwhelm
- To show up in the world.
- Everything falls into place while being outdoors. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 6]
- When I sleep in a tent, I feel so much more refreshed. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 5]
- Being unprepared made me fall in love. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 4]
- Being uncomfortable slows down time. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 3]
- I drank from a stream. It tasted like adventure with a hint of moss and ancient ice. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 2]
- „Don’t pack your fears.“ [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 1]
- Time is never wasted.
- Grazing For Resilience.
- Plans are useless…
- When there was no waste.
- Our Habits.
- Patterns for our system.
- Regeneration is Relationship.
- Everyday we are a Mosaic of Landscape.
- 20.000 Steps.
- Regenerative Grazing.
- Nailing the details.
- A Gift.
- Managing for chaos.
- This is 44.
- The River.
- Land Stewards and Artists
- Sometimes – by David Whyte
- A Community Context,
- Getting off screens to be able to really see.
- Offline weekend – part 2.
- Offline weekend – part 1.
- This was my start.
- Going on a date with the land.
- Creating community to regenerate landscapes
- Management for regeneration.
- Falling.
- When one becomes many.
- The care for our things.
- A place to belong.
- Regeneration is about moving with the speed of life.
- Just for joy.
- AI can’t solve this.
- Feeling
- Strengthening community within community.
- Monitoring in Les Cévennes.
- Defining myself is like confining myself.
- A place’s memory
- Seeing with new eyes
- This is not a spoon.
- Coffee
- Caring capacity
- What is mine to do.
- Wintering
- Shifting perspectives. Hunting.
- Information. Experience. Knowledge.
- Principles of Regeneration.
- Technology
- Building relationship.
- The more beautiful questions.
- Ecological Health. Inside and outside.
- Plan. Monitor. Replan.
- Economically? Financially?
- Journey to health.
- EOV. Or why monitor?
- Leadership. Or Leadersheep?
- Re-Storying Community
- The good neighbor.
- Starting Points.
- Thought in between trees
- Unplanned. [US roadtrip 2022.]
- Holistic Management ist eine Reise.
- Becoming.
- Wildness and a bear. [US roadtrip 2022.]
- Holistic Management is a Journey.
- Clearing.
- Oregon‘s misty soul. [US Roadtrip 2022.]
- Wintering
- Californian Breakfast Diner [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Nevada Drive. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Yosemite. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Integrazers – timberland and wildfire prevention
- Zion. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- West Bijou Reflections
- West Bijou Reflections [US Roadtrip 2022]
- High Desert. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Locks. [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Fern Gully, Göteborg (Sweden)]
- Context
- Over the fence.
- Summer Solistice. [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Encanto, Rönnäng (Sweden)]
- What do I do?
- Mrs? Mrs! [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Doubtfire, Copenhagen (Denmark)]
- Brat. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Maribo (Denmark)]
- Closing Nature’s Cycle.
- Reality Check. [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Casblanca (Bremen)]
- Regenerative Dairy?
- Expertus. Or Experii.
- Interbeing. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Batman, Windach (Bavaria).]
- Regeneration messbar machen. // Measuring regeneration.
- Desert in Brandenburg.
- Kingfisher. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Amelie, Neunburg vorm Wald (Bavaria)]
- New chapters. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Leaving Berlin]
- Reconnecting.
- Growing the local mycorrhiza network
- You can’t heal the earth. You can only heal places.
- Creating your lighthouse
- The new normal
- Feeling whole.
- Why everyone’s story matters
- Regenerating.
- Holistic Management – Methoden und Werkzeuge für komplexe Systeme (Teil 2)
- Holistic Management – Entscheidungsfindung in der Komplexität natürlicher Systeme (Teil 1)
- A new decade in the making.
- 5 steps to start with sustainability in your professional life
- In a state of not knowing
- San Francisco. A belated dream.
- Reliving the experience. [Across the Alps 2020]
- Munich to Venice [Across the Alps via bike]
- Leftovers. [Roadtrip around Norway #8]
- A Facilitator in Lockdown.
- I don’t want to know. [Roundtrip around Norway #7]
- My MacBooks.
- North. [Roadtrip around Norway #6]
- Blueberries. [Roadtrip around Norway #5]
- Parallel World. [Roadtrip around Norway #4]
- First snow. [Roadtrip around Norway #3]
- Old water. [Roadtrip around Norway #2]
- Do they blink? [Roadtrip around Norway #1]
- Day and night in a van [Woolleys Bay, 27.01.2020]
- Dark Caves with life [North Island, Waipu, 23.01.2020]
- Trails and Sun [Motatapu Track, 07.-08.01.2020]
- When the days were slow [North Island, 22.01.-28.01.2020]
- Sandflies and Bird Talk [Overnight in Doubtful Sounds, 17.-18.01.2020]
- This is Red the blue penguin
- Things that matter [Edoras, 05.01.2020]
- First hike, hard hike [Avalanche Peak, 03.-05.01.2020]
- Start with a teary eye [Brisbane, 31.12.2019]
- Micro adventure in Saxonian Switzerland [Sächsische Schweiz, 23.-24.11.2019]
- A short escape – Is this still Germany? [Rügen, 23.-25.08.2019]
- Diversity in city life, sustainability and nature [Helsinki, 29.05.-07.06.2019]
- An Easter trip to the Spreewald [20.-22. April]
- The Kerry Way: ~220 km around the Iveragh Peninsula
- Copenhagen – A new year of travels
- 1.554 miles Roadtrip Los Angeles to Omaha [US trip part 3: 07.-09. September 2018]
- Goodbye to the West Coast [US trip part2: 28.08.-06.09.2018]
- New York, New York – or: “I can still be overwhelmed by a city?” [US trip part 1: 24.08.-28.08.2018]
- A spontaneous 336km bike trip [Passau to Vienna, 6.8.-8.8.2018]
- 2 months in a glimpse and new US plans
- Home, weird, Home – Back with a playlist of memories
- Toronto – Goodbye Canada, I’m going home? [Across Canada – part 15: 15.-23.05.2018]
- Brockville – between 1000 islands and the big city [Across Canada – part 14: 08.-15.05.2018]
- Ottawa – A night in jail [Across Canada – part 13: 07.-09.05.2018]
- Nova Scotia – Canada‘s Ocean Playground [Across Canada – part 12: 28.04.-06.05.2018]
- Quebéc City – Haute, Basse et Nouvelle Ville [Across Canada – part 11: 23.-27.04.2018]
- Montréal – French for beginners [Across Canada – part 10: 19.-23.04.2018]
- Toronto – 10 lines for stopover 1 of 3 [Across Canada – part 9: 17.-19.04.]
- 48 hours to Toronto [Across Canada – part 8: 15.-17.04.2018]
- One night in Saskatoon [Across Canada – part 7: 14.-15.04.2018]
- Calgary [Across Canada – part 6: 10.-13.04.2018]
- No bears in Banff [Across Canada – part 5: 07.-10.04.2018]
- Lake Louise without the lake [Across Canada – part 4: 04.-07.04.2018]
- Beautiful ice cold spring in Jasper [Across Canada – part 3: 31.03.-04.04.2018]
- Train meditation from Vancouver to Jasper [Across Canada – Part 2: 30.03.-31.03.2018]
- Vancouver [Across Canada – Part 1: 21.03.-30.03.2018]
- Los Angeles — a rollercoaster ride (Part 2: 26.02.-20.03.2018)
- A short Nebraska Midwest side story
- San Francisco, Yosemite and Sequoia – Coastal roads and giant trees (California ~ 16.-25.02.2018)
- Los Angeles — I hate u, I love u (Part 1: 25.01.-16.02.2018)
- Big Island — sea creatures and good vibes (Hawaiian Island No. 4 ~ 17.-24.01.2018)
- Kaua‘i — A time travel backwards (Hawaiian Island No. 3 ~ 10.-17.01.2018)
- Maui – A road trip to valleys and volcano (Hawaiian Island No. 2 ~ 04.-10.01.2018)
- O’ahu – Gateway to Hawaii (Hawaiian Island No. 1, 29.12.2017 – 04.01.2018)
- Samoa – a short adventure across the Pacific (24.-29.12.2017)
- Fiji – a holiday from traveling (11.12.-23.12.)
- New Zealand – 10 weeks passed by in a glimpse – what’s next?
- The last 7 days in Auckland area (NZ ~ 03.-10.12.2017)
- Rotorua – My last new place (NZ ~ 30.11.-03.12.)
- Wellington and Taupo – again? Why? (NZ ~ 26.-30.11.)
- Dunedin, Oamaru, Christchurch and Picton – last days on the south island (NZ ~ 17.-26.11.2017)
- Sticky note: My oncoming travel destinations, the beauty of stories and what a crazy travelling year so far
- Stewart Island – The challenging North-West-Circuit (NZ ~ 06.-17.11.2017)
- The Kepler Track – 4 days or 4 1/2 hours
- The Milford Track – the “finest walk in the world” (NZ ~ 27.-30.10.2017)
- The “places to be” – Wanaka vs. Queenstown (NZ ~ 17.-25.10.2017)
- West Coast‘s rains (NZ ~ 12.-17.10.2017 )
- Abel Tasman Coast Trek – or why sandflies are the worst (NZ ~ 05.-11.10.2017)
- Sunny days in Windy Welli (NZ ~ Wellington)
- Auckland, Hamilton, Hobbiton and Taupo (NZ ~ 21.-01.10.2017)
- Sydney – or why I had no other choice
- Caught in a 5-days Singaporean sling (Sep 8th to 12th)
- The journey starts… bye Europe.
- Crossing the Alps from Oberstdorf to Vernago incl. bonus level (20.08.-29.08.)
- Camino de Santiago – the last steps from Santiago to Finisterre and Muxia (~120km)
- Goodbye work… and thank you.
- Taking a deep breath in Dublin area – 7th to 11th July 2017
- It starts getting real
- All beginnings are difficult