Regenerative Skills

Regenerative Skills


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Re-becoming keystone species, and practical steps for restoring your environment, with Tanja Dekker
December 13, 2024

Long time listeners to this show will know that soil health and deep soil science are not my specialty. I’ve done quite a few interviews on soil over the years, but I’ve usually looked for broader patterns and simple concepts around health soil function,

Lessons from regenerating a 1100 hectare farm in semi-arid Spain, with Silvia Quarta
December 06, 2024

This last week has been incredible for me. After almost 5 years of being connected to different aspects of the work at the farm in La Junquera, first through my connection with Silvia Quarta the leader of Camp Altiplano, the first in the global Ecosystem

Drought: Part 3. Mitigation strategies for large and regional scale projects: redux
November 22, 2024

Welcome to the final episode in mine and Nicks 3 part series on drought. In the first episode we talked about how drought was affecting our two homes at the moment. His home on the island of Tenerife, and my own in Northeastern Spain. We went over the de

Drought: Part 2. Solutions and opportunities for small and medium scale: redux
November 15, 2024

Continuing with our deep dive into drought, my good friend Nick Steiner and I are going to move now from defining drought and the its myriad of causes and factors that make it worse, to a wide range of solutions and opportunities available to people who a

Drought: Part 1. The myths, misconceptions, and causes: redux
November 08, 2024

Its that time again. In todays regenerative round table, my good friend Nick Steiner and I give updates on our respective projects. Him on the Island of Tenerife and myself in the mountains of central Catalunya in Spain. In the update we talk about some

Installing water retention and fire mitigation features on the ground: redux
November 01, 2024

Continuing on the journey we started in the last episode, Nick and I went to the next project where we got to install the types of water retention features that we had designed for the previous clients. Together we talk about the joys and the challenges o

Reading the landscape and gathering essential data for a water restoration design
October 25, 2024

Were starting in a big way with a special episode in which me and my good friend and collaborator Nick Steiner will be taking you along with us on a client visit in the south of Portugal in the very first steps of a water retention landscape project.We

Diary of a water restoration design and install
October 18, 2024

Today I want to go back to one of my favorite episodes of the last few years. This was back at the start of the 7th season, so almost two years ago. I was trying out a new format as I headed out on a water retention landscape job, which the episode will e

How we can overcome the looming water crisis in our cities, with Jerry Yudelson
October 11, 2024

In this series on water, the one area that I've left out so far is the urban landscape. In this weeks episode I got to chat with Jerry Yudelson, the author of 13 full-length professional and trade books on green buildings, integrated design, green homes,

Modeling restoration strategies to repair the hydrological cycle, with Ali Bin Shahid
October 04, 2024

As the importance of the water cycle to global climate regulation has gained attention in the last few years, Ive also seen an emergence of voices working to explain the science and the details of the intricate workings and contributors to the nuance of