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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Essays
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.
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.
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The Principles of Regenerative Agriculture
Why I don’t use the five principles of regenerative agriculture, and what I use instead.
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Why I don’t like to ‘define’ regenerative agriculture.
A feisty dairy farmer once dressed me down for this. Why a fixed definition does more harm than good.
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The fastest ‘root’ to regeneration.
After years of coaching farms through transition, I can tell early on who will make it. Here’s the difference.
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