Regeneration is about moving with the speed of life.

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 …

Just for joy.

I have an envelope. It’s a bit battered and held together by a rubber band, sticky notes all around. The top reads “For Joy and Happiness only”.  It started some years ago. Every time I got cash on Christmas from my parents, I’ve put it in the envelope to save it for something for the …

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AI can’t solve this.

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 …

Feeling

Feeling.  There was a time in my life when I loved watching football. Partly because I was interested in the sport. Mostly because it was a chance to truly feel.  So many intense emotions are shared at the same time with friends and strangers alike – if it is in the stadium or just watching …

Strengthening community within community.

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 …

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Monitoring in Les Cévennes.

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 …

A place’s memory

A place’s memories 300 apple trees. 90 years old. Quirky looking. Loads of character.  I’m walking underneath trees that my great-grandfather had planted for the future of his children. And their children.  None of my distant cousins from this branch of the family tree still holds the place. Lost in gambling. Lost in unresolved trauma.  Somehow, I …

This is not a spoon.

Well, technically it is.But this spoon is also a time machine. The spoon came to me during an intense self-sufficient hike . Nothing crazy like others do. But for me 10 days in the backcountry of Stewart Island, carrying all my food through deep mud, stream crossings and up and down rooted creeks, were wild. …

Coffee

I love coffee. The ritual of grinding beans, heating water and slowly pouring over it. To then sit down and enjoy the moment. I love finding coffee shops while traveling where you can engage with the roasters and the people and sit down with a new friend or two to enjoy the special moment. I …