Four days, six people. Mostly manual work. Preserving what can be preserved as cuts, ground beef, glass-jar-meat, tallow, jelly, and broth. The house smells like grease while the pots are bubbling down the fat. Upstairs we are still processing fresh meat in the half outside, half inside makeshift facility. The sun is kind to us …
We are driving to Sweden, long hours behind and some before us. Hours sprinkled with stops along lakes, coffee breaks underneath pine trees, and sing-a-longs in the car. One thought keeps coming back to me on these curvy roads through endless forests. More a theme than a thought. A deep longing for a place to …
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 biomass make about 1 gallon …
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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, re-writing, and re-thinking. Sometimes over …
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 our Holistic Management course but …
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 other once a year around …
“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 to my surroundings – when …