“So, how was Hungary?” When I arrived for my yearly ecological monitoring together with the Hungarian Savory Hub, my initial thought was that I was really worried. Worried about the result of no effective rain and high temperatures over the last 6-8 weeks. Worried after seeing so many dried-out pastures from the train. Worried that …
but planning is essential. When we work with the complexity of life, we don’t expect the plan to work out exactly as we planned it. But the planning itself, the process itself, still makes so much sense. For discussions, information exchange, and moments of insight during planning. For the framework it provides for our decision-making. …
Something new is relatively easy to think about when sitting in a training or by an evening beer with your peers. What happens when we put it into practice? We are still fueled by the idea and the excitement. And then… We suddenly scratch at the habits of our animals, our neighbors, and ourselves. There …
If we don’t know how to work and make decisions together, live regeneration and democracy locally, we will not get the solutions we want regionally or nationally. What we practice at the small scale sets the pattern for the whole system. And can change the whole system. Start where you are. 🌱 —Wenn wir nicht …
Supporting regeneration means building relationships with land and people. Not just “being right” or pushing an agenda. Instead work within context, priorities, and community. Local community. Watershed community. Start where you are. „Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world …
Regenerative grazing is not a system with fixed rules. No “xx tons per hectare. No “maximum xx days per paddock.” No “just like last year.” Instead, how do I use my understanding of my land to adapt the timing, frequency, and intensity to suit the diversity of my land with its different resources? Regenerative planned …
When talking about management for regenerative agriculture, four questions keep coming up from my side continuously: How do you make decisions?How do you plan your grazing / finances / priorities?How do you monitor?How does this fit into the context of your land? You can decide what framework to use to bring these questions to life …
Nature isn’t clean and sorted. Nature is messy. And it’s exactly this messiness that creates resilience and balance. What does this mean for me and my German-ness? We need to create a certain kind of chaos. A chaos that is diversity, structures, and edges coming to life through our intentional management. This disturbance will build …
Being a good land steward, like being an artist, requires seeing beyond the status quo and envisioning something else, while meanwhile, all the rest of the world chases after (monetary) success and reaches a status of busy-ness. Some days it’s just going to be really hard to be walking such a contrary path, and we’ll …
Last week, we worked within a community on creating their personal Holistic Context. It takes time and the willingness of all the decision-makers to come together and create the space to work together on the how. But the depth of conversation and the better understanding of each other is invaluable compared to the time invested. …