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.

Information. Experience. Knowledge.
„The rye is starting really well. But you can clearly see the rows where you drove.“ Fabi laughs while telling this our Holistic Management group. I laugh as well.Yeah, my rows clearly look a little drunk.Two weeks ago, I finally had my personal experience with direct seeding rye. Driving the

Principles of Regeneration.
The Holistic Context and the 7 First Principles of Regeneration are two frameworks I keep coming back to – using for myself and within my work. For the last days I’ve been wondering how to bring these closer together when we use them for us as an individual, when we

Technology
I have a biased relationship. Currently I am really pi**ed. I worked on a holistic financial training – felt actually very confident about it – and then…the browser crashed and my whole progress disappeared into the realm of offline-online-not-syncedness. Maybe not a good moment to write about technology. Or maybe…? How much

Building relationship.
One close look at grass, in awe about its growth. One cup of coffee, sharing personal stories inbetween. One moment getting lost in the soul of an oxen. Community. We can’t craft, create or design community. We can only facilitate space for community to emerge. To happen. Through going

The more beautiful questions.
So what are more beautiful questions? Depending on how we phrase our questions, we narrow done our space to think, our tools available. We lock ourselves onto a specific path to a specific solution. And we love that. Because it makes it easier. It gives us, me, a feeling of:

Ecological Health. Inside and outside.
Last week during our EOV monitor training, we went out into the field, trained our eyes, and calibrated as a group. With EOV, we measure the health and function of the ecosystem. Context-specific. Farmers first. We scored along different ecosystem health indicators – leading indicators and lagging indicators – and

Plan. Monitor. Replan.
During the last 6 days doing EOV, I don’t know how often we used the words “Okay, here is the new plan.” 50 times? 100? More? The weather changed from burning heat to heavy rains back to heat. We broke the soil sampler. Got it welded. Broke it again. Our water

Economically? Financially?
Spending time with a flock, herding and observing, gives your mind the chance to catch up with life. Gives you time to sit in silence but also to ponder bigger topics. Lennart and I loved to dive into the economics and financials of ‘how to make it work’. How can

Journey to health.
We are all on our individual journeys. Do we need more ‘proof’? More examples, more comparisons? More fence line photos? More people telling us how it is done? Why? In complex systems, we have to figure out for ourselves what health – in land, business, farm, body, mind – means

EOV. Or why monitor?
I look down at my scorecard and the Ecological Health Index (EHI) I’ve summed up. „Wow. I’ve scored this chestnut woodland like a corn field.“ The last days, here in the south of France, we have been out in the fields, on terraces, open forests, and shrubland to do the

Leadership. Or Leadersheep?
When working with living systems we learn so much about ourselves and the complexity around us. How can we share these experiences to guide our doings in human systems, organizations, and our built environment? How can it help us to figure out our place in the web of life while

Re-Storying Community
Meeting people where they are has been one of the drivers during our trip. Was it surprising then that I wanted to meet a local farmer in Ontario on our last day in North America? Probably not. I was lucky to stumble upon Sonset Farm while flipping through a “Discover

The good neighbor.
When I was asked if I can come to France to hold a session with agricultural engineering students I was thrilled. “Beyond regenerative grazing” was my working title to shift the discussion to ‘seeing with new eyes’ and mindset. I was so grateful that our friends from @paturegenere joined me

Starting Points.
In the end of March, I traveled to the UK for the full team meeting of a regenerative dairy project we as @landregeneration are involved in. 26 farmers from 5 different European countries, the local regenerative coaches – like me – and the project team from the dairy cooperative. We

Thought in between trees
Trees aren’t “carbon sinks” or “carbon removers”. Trees aren’t a practice, a simple tool. Trees are community builders. They create the edges for life to thrive. Where different species meet and where some live their whole life. An oak can foster over 2000 different species – not including the gazillions of
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