This was it. I had just finished books on market gardening and my first Holistic Management training, and wanted to do something while still living in Berlin. Together with others we leased a strip of arable land to grow our vegetables for a season. I was excited! And then reality hit. Sand and dirt. 40 minutes …
I spend the last 5 weeks harvesting vegetables, in few sunny, mostly misty rainy mornings. Why? To learn something new and get an inside into a part of agriculture I haven’t had yet. Of workflows and needs. Also, a warm place to stay and good food to eat with people we like. But really? I …
„What are you currently working on?“ Good question. I guess our direct work revolves around regenerative agriculture and supporting farmers and teams in their transition towards a regenerative approach. Using management practices from system thinking, holistic management, permaculture, and lean management. Yet, a second layer of work follows us into every conversations and relationship. A …
What actually is Holistic Management? The thought crosses my mind while sitting in the field and harvesting vegetables. As I still get asked this question, and keep refining and adding different aspects to the answer, here is a current take on it. Holistic Management is in its origin a land management approach that aims to …
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 …