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.

Time is never wasted.

Time. One of our most precious resources. It’s also sort of weird to think of it as a resource. Probably the invention of the clock and then the watch made it a resource. Not just for ourselves, but for everyone interested in doing something with our time. Nowadays, like yesterdays,

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Grazing For Resilience.

“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

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Plans are useless…

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

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When there was no waste.

I sit over my finished lunch. Eggs, bacon, and a leftover of fat and onions from a roast I made a week ago.  I look at my greasy plate.  I pick it up and lick it clean.  Thoughts cross my mind, above all my mum’s voice. “You’re not supposed to

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Our Habits.

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,

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Patterns for our system.

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

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Regeneration is Relationship.

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

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Everyday we are a Mosaic of Landscape.

Today I look at myself and have to smile. It looks like I’m turning into this land.  When we arrived 10 weeks ago, in a winter storm and with snow piled high along the roads, we stopped at a second-hand shop and got ourselves some well-maintained warm winter gear –

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20.000 Steps.

That’s my magic number. If I go on a walk and I make it to 20.000 steps before I stop, not just my whole day, but my whole week will be better. 7.000 steps per day and I feel okay.15.000 steps per day and my body is good.20.000 steps in

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