Regenerative Skills

Regenerative Skills


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Akiva Silver on propagating plants and starting a nursery business: Part 1
September 01, 2023

After the last few weeks of focus on the intricacies of Holistic management and building community in agriculture, I wanted to go back to some technical information on specific farming enterprises.O

Championing the alternative to a farm free future, with Chris Smaje
August 25, 2023

Ive been watching an interesting and important discussion play out for a number of years now within the environmental movement and ecological farming community. It appears that on one hand we have a

Matt Powers on discovering the world under our feet with soil microscopy
August 18, 2023

One of the emerging practices in the regenerative work space is that of citizen science. This covers an infinite range of scientific specialties, but Ive especially seen amazing things come from two

Building community for farmers with Klarien Klingen
August 11, 2023

Since last year much of my work with Climate Farmers has been in building the European farmer community and creating connections so that members can learn from each other.I admittedly dont have a l

Ian Robertson, Ed Brown, and Ben Taylor-Davies on the knowledge and mindset needed for regenerative farm transitions (redux)
August 04, 2023

Ive touched on this topic briefly in previous interviews, but it bears repeating. Agriculture around the world is going through a critical moment. The skyrocketing prices of petroleum products, meani

Leveraging native plant communities and ecological succession for regeneration, with Henry Anderson
July 28, 2023

One of my favorite topics to explore on this show is how other people with unique skill sets and talents look at the natural world and the ecological design process. Ive been fortunate in my network

Joseph Lofthouse shows how anyone can get started with landrace gardening
July 21, 2023

Ive been looking forward to todays session for a good couple months now. Though its been years since I got excited about seed saving and heard the first little bits of the ideas around landrace

Helen Atthowe shares her secrets for long term ecological farming success
July 14, 2023

A lot of my work these days revolves around communicating with farmers around Europe who are at various stages of a transition towards regenerative management. For many different reasons farmers are l

Reflecting on the journey and my learnings after 300 episodes
July 07, 2023

Welcome to a very special episode of the regenerative skills podcast. This is the 300th episode that I am publishing today, and to make the occasion I wanted to try something new. At this point the sh

William Horvath helps build effective processes for farms and homesteads
June 30, 2023

Todays episode touches on a very timely topic for me. Im currently developing a program to assist European farmers in their transition to regenerative management of their farms, and the big challeng