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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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