“It’s so crazy that you’ve done this. 5 years ago you still ate a vegan diet,” my friend texted me after I told her that I passed my hunter’s exam. Yes. A part of me just wants to be challenged again and again. Another part is really terrified by that. So, it was probably the first …
„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 tractor, trying my …
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 work within restoring a landscape …
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 does technology in all its …
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 into relationship with the world …
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: “Well, I guess I can …
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 set a baseline for the …
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 infiltration ring also didn’t look …
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 I be financially viable at …
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 for us. Means to us. …