This week I am happy to present a guest pod from my students on topics related to the theme of this podcast channel. This podcast is made by Carolyn Tourunen, Linda Grönfors and Heidi Koivisto, Hanken School of Economy students in Sustainable organizing in times of crises course. Welcome to a trip to Omavaraopisto, the … Continue reading Living and teaching self-sufficiency in the Finnish wilderness! →

Elizabeth Barkla grew up on an organic dairy farm in New Zealand. While watching the cows on her childhood farm, she always had a feeling that there was something that was not right in the way that agriculture affected the natural environment. Yet, it was only when visiting a regenerative farm following holistic management principles … Continue reading Elizabeth Barkla on Restoring Landscapes through Regenerative Farming in Chilean South →

Didi Pershouse, from Thetford Center, Vermont, teaches courses in regenerative approaches at the Land and Leadership initiative. Her books Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function and Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities connect the dots between the health of people and the health of soils, watersheds, … Continue reading Didi Pershouse on how regenerative approaches improve the health of soil, water, climate and people →

Misty West Gay and her husband Jonathan Gay have a background in software business from the time when Internet was still young. In 2003, inspired by their grandparents work as farmers, Misty and Jon left their office jobs to become ranchers themselves. Today they tend the land of the Freestone Ranch in Sonoma County, just … Continue reading Misty West Gay on decentring human privilege through a systems view of ranching →

Rebecca Hosking used to travel the world as a wildlife filmmaker for the BBC. During her travels she constantly encountered the destruction that agriculture caused to the precious wildlife that she was there to document. This led her on a path back to her family’s farm in Devon in the southwest of England.. Today she … Continue reading Rebecca Hosking from wildlife filmmaking to agriwilding landscapes →

Philipp Weiss from Stjärnsund, Sweden, is an environmental engineer who worked in industry and academia, before realizing that life is too short to spend it in an office. He quit his job and turned his passion for edible perennial plants into a livelihood, writing books and teaching on the topic. Growing up in southern Germany, … Continue reading Philipp Weiss on the Promising Potentials of Food Forests in the Nordics →

Blain Hjertaas is a third generation farmer with a lifetime of experience from the family farm near Redvers, Saskatchewan, Canada. About 20 years ago, Blain transitioned from conventional hi-tech grain production to holistic management principles, incorporating multi-species rotational grazing on grasslands, mimicking what the bison used to do on the same land several hundred years … Continue reading Blain Hjertaas on Going from Grains to Grass to Achieve Soil Regeneration →

Ronnie Cummins is founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit network of consumers promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and trade. His recent book Grassroots Rising, is a call for action to build a strong global Regeneration Movement around education and awareness, consumer activism and farmer innovation … Continue reading Ronnie Cummins on How Grassroots Movements Are Building a More Regenerative Future →

Steve Arco from Arco in Idaho, has been a soil and range conservationist for USDA for 27 years. During these years, he has acquired knowledge of how to handle and move grazing cattle on public land in a way that reduces stress in animals while increasing the health of soils on public lands. Inspired by … Continue reading Steve Cote on Regenerating Public Lands through Fenceless Grazing →

Ian McSweeney is the director of Agrarian Land Trust, an organization that works to bring farms into community centered ownership and equitable lease tenure. Recently, the Trust initiated a crowdfunding campaign with Fayette County and the Urban Renewal Authority to bring about secure and equitable lease tenure to New Roots Community Farm in the post-coal … Continue reading Ian McSweeney on Making Regenerative Farming Work through New Land Ownership Models →