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Erwin Westers: From Soil to Sale and Shared Success

At their farm Horaholm, in the northern Dutch village of Hornhuizen, Erwin Westers and his father have spent over 20 years exploring how to work with nature instead of against it. Their efforts show how farming can heal both the land and the climate. By restoring soil life, inviting biodiversity back, and capturing 5,273 tons…

Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · ONCRA · Regenerative agriculture · Carbon credits · Soil carbon · Farmers

Piedra Azul

“There’s no feeling like seeing stuff green and alive and fruit starting to form.” – Karim Kouddous Setting up a syntropic farm is like software development, Kareem ascertains while showing us the irrigation system. You have complex systems that interact, parts of the system are developed in sprints, you have to test and see how…

Agroforestry · Entrepreneurs · Syntropic farming · Regenerative agriculture · Soil carbon · Compost · Land

How to become climate positive

Scave.World: Double Nature Talk, September 12 2023Bart van Beuzekom has a regenerative farm in Portugal and also several hectares in the Netherlands. For example, he produces delicious pasta with old plant varieties. Bart has not been a farmer since childhood; he started five years ago. Because he wanted to take action against the destruction of…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Regenerative agriculture · Carbon credits · Soil carbon · Onsets · Land

Sign this soil manifesto

Together with 50+ Dutch organizations, we’ve written a manifesto for regeneration of the soil in the Netherlands. It would be great if you would also sign this manifest. Take a look on the website of Aardpeer. 21 baby’s and their parents are asking for

Climate Cleanup · Soil · Regenerative agriculture · Soil carbon · Land · Policy · Netherlands

Doubling nature with biochar

Student and entrepreneur Marcel Kempers made an agile start of this decade, working with his companies on seaweed (Reef Support) and biochar (Pyro Power). At our Double Nature Talk of February 10 Marcel and his collegues elaborated on the latter one: regenerating soil using biochar. An ancient method used for centuries by indigenous people in…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Soil · Biochar · Regenerative agriculture · Soil carbon · Seaweed · Founders

Soil as a natural climate solution

Regenerating soil life is indispensable for reversing climate change. Soil expert Fransjan de Waard and green innovator Hillebrand Breuker shared their knowledge

Climate Cleanup · Soil · Soil carbon · Regenerative agriculture · Nature based solutions · Land