Sometimes you wake up or stop in your tracks and everything you did in the past year seems like a distant past, like a different self, like a dream. This morning is one of these days. For the last 5 years, I worked in regenerative agriculture, around management, as well as very hands-on. Like this …
I remember the night when I found it. I had looked at the night sky for years, maybe for decades, but always needed someone else to point it out to me. That night was different. After a really good community event, we went for a night walk. It was one of these amazing, clear night …
Experience. We learn through experiences. We change how we do things or even adapt our worldview through experiences. We can relate to others when we have similar experiences as they do. There is only so much that we can learn or use from information. If we don’t make it into an experience, it stays something …
So, what is Holistic Planned Grazing? Is it Mob Grazing, is it AMP grazing? Is it rotational grazing? But it’s definitely not continuous grazing or? The answer is yes and no. Most of the above are systems with a set of rules or guidelines that might work better or worse in your specific context. Planning …
The last 6 days, I spent in Spain at an advanced, deep dive workshop into Holistic Management. Three different ecoregions with four different farming operations to see and listen. Seeing what different tools like (over)rest and (over)grazing do in brittle and non-brittle environments just 50 km apart was fascinating yet again. The more brittle the …
“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 …