Thinking from the field
Essays, reports and conversations on grazing, soil, water and the people making regeneration work.
Featured
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The Re-Rooting of Regenerative Agriculture
Why the next five years will see a renaissance.
White Papers
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Beyond Practices: Understanding the Benefits, Pitfalls and Approaches of Regenerative Agriculture
Why practice adoption alone disappoints, and why systems-level transformation delivers far greater returns. A framework for funders, corporations and organisations designing regenerative programmes.
Essays
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Herbal Leys: What’s Not On The Invoice
Seed catalogues sell herbal leys as the answer to everything. What a four-year solution leaves out of a long-term strategy.
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The Most Undervalued Skill in Regenerative Agriculture
Why seeing the whole will define the next decade of regenerative agriculture.
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The Hammer, The Boat, and The Blog
A note on how this writing came to be, and what the old engineer’s invoice has to do with it.
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Why I Engage with AI: Gaia, Integral Consciousness, and the Case for Showing Up
Is it ethical for someone who cares deeply about the living world to use artificial intelligence? Why I’ve chosen to engage.
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What the Take-Half, Leave-Half Grazing Debate is Missing: A Regenerative Grazing Perspective
A systems perspective on John Kempf’s challenge to one of grazing’s foundational principles.
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How would nature design a start-up?
Human progress has been extraordinary, but something is wrong. What living systems can teach us about building organisations.
Red Flag Reports
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How regenerative farming reduces pests and disease
Most of what a farm spends goes on the same few problems. Why a regenerative system has fewer of them, and how we work with pests rather than against them.
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Why Your Tick Treatments Might Be Making the Problem Worse
Every year, UK livestock farmers spend thousands on pyrethroid pour-ons. Every year, the ticks come back. A whole-system look at why.
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Moss And Rush – Is It Taking Over Your Pasture?
Fields once dominated by grasses are filling with moss and rush. What that is telling you about what your grass plants need.
Regenerative Heroes
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George Henderson and The Farming Ladder
Two brothers, eighty-five acres of worn-out Cotswold ground and almost no capital. Twenty years later their accounts were so good Reading University checked them.
Field Notes
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Drought Reserve Grazing: Same Rain, Two Droughts
Two neighbouring fields on the same geology had completely different summers. The difference arrived with the rain, not the drought.
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Early Spring Grazing: The Rotation That Shapes the Whole Season
The grass greens up, the neighbour’s stock go out, and the pressure is on. Why the first rotation decides the rest of the year.
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The most overlooked factor for successful regenerative grazing.
Regenerative grazing works. After teaching it to hundreds of farmers, here’s the factor that most often decides whether it works for you.
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Laggan Croft – An Exploration of Regeneration
A small croft on the Isle of Lismore, and what it means to start regenerating a piece of land of our own.
Listen & Watch
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Regenerative Soils Series – Caroline Grindrod in Conversation with Abby Rose
Traditional consultancy hands over a prescription. Caroline makes the case that regeneration begins with a way of seeing, not a product.
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Farm Gate Podcast. Regenerative Agriculture – The Next Decade
Regenerative farming has gone mainstream in a decade. What the next one needs to get right.
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Restoring Water Cycles – with Walter Jehne and Caroline Grindrod
Caroline and soil scientist Walter Jehne on regenerating healthy water cycles to protect food systems and cool the climate.
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Over the Farm Gate Podcast – Managing Complexity
Seeing the farm as an ecosystem, and how to manage the complexity and diversity that brings.