Category: Soil Builders

What we learned in 2025 about making regen bankable, animals, water, chefs, scale, Al in ag, agroforestry, education, food as medicine, ROl, storytelling

26th December 2025 koenvanseijen AI 4 Soil Health, Beyond Food, Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Farmers' Philosophy, Investor Stories, Landscape Design 2.0, Landscape Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Ownership, Policy and Legislation, Regeneration Newsroom, Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Aquaculture, Regenerative Education, Regenerative Mind, Role of Animals, Role of corporations, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders, Transition finance, Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer, Water Cycles 0 Comments

If 2025 had a soundtrack, it would be the sound of stress: stress in the system, stress in humans, stress in animals and in all other non human beings.

And then the cycle of Heat. Drought. Fire. Flood. Over and over again.
And yet, between the headlines, something else seems happening. We spent the year in conversation—with farmers walking their fields, scientists questioning old assumptions, investors rethinking risk, and builders experimenting in the real world. Online and offline, we found ourselves in rooms where regeneration wasn’t an abstract ideal, but really happening.

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s hard not to feel cautiously optimistic. The signals are there. Regeneration works and the direction is becoming clearer.

Toby Parkes – Mapping the underground fungi world by building a unicorn

18th November 2025 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Landscape Design 2.0, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders 0 Comments

In order to save and more importantly restore biodiversity we don’t need biodiversity or carbon credits; we need biologists to find super profitable business models within the magical deeply complex world of nature. It’s the case of Toby Parkes, founder and CEO of Rhizocore, with whom go deep into the third, mostly ignored, and much more complex kingdom: fungi.

Farmers’ Philosophy series! Koen van Seijen in conversation with Anne van Leeuwen, regenerative farmer and co-owner of Bodemzicht Farm

25th July 2023 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Farmers First Tech, Farmers' Philosophy, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 1 Comment

We can learn so much more from farmers than how to restore soil. Regeneration goes much further and deeper. In the second episode of the Farmers’ Philosophy series Koen van Seijen, host of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast, talks with Anne van Leeuwen, regenerative farmer and co-owner of Bodemzicht Farm. A deep dive into the non-existence of nature-culture divide, getting back in touch with yourself, nutrient dense food as basic human right, community, minimum wage, true cost economy, and much more.

Soil Builders, saving harvests with small holders farmers and connecting local farms to city folk in the UK

18th February 2022 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders 0 Comments

In this episode we hear from Wolfgang Mittmann, founder and CEO of Savings Grains, how they are helping smallholder farmers save their harvests, fulfil their potential, and make sure that no good food goes to waste. Also Pete Russell shares more about his company, Ooooby, a social enterprise that connects local farmers to city folk through an organic fruit and veg box subscription service.

Soil Builders, regenerative agroforestry on Hawaii and soil carbon credits in Australia

13th May 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 0 Comments

What regenerative agriculture looks like with bread fruit in Hawaii and Bert Glover of Impact Ag Partners shares their part in the soil carbon credit deal with Microsoft and an Australian rancher.

Soil Builders, for robots not all weeds are created egual

2nd March 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 1 Comment

A check in with Brent Kessel, investor in the New African Farmers bond, plus a deep dive with Ben Scott Robbinson of the Small Robot Company into the role of small robots in regenerative agriculture and why not all weeds are created equal.

Soil Builders, 40M for carbon farming in AU and transitioning a 1000a farm using regenerative approaches

12th January 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 0 Comments

A check in interview with Lachy Ritchie, co founder of Agtalent and Carbon Farming Foundation plus an update with Tyler and Tim Nuss of The Modern Acre.

Six things we accomplished in 2020

30th December 2020 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders, Transition finance 0 Comments

It is hard to believe this was only 12 months! As the year ends we would like to share with you our main accomplishments and discoveries of this 2020.

What we learned in 2020 on nutrition, inequality, ownership, health, agroforestry, profitability, soil

28th December 2020 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders, Transition finance 2 Comments

As the year ends we share what we have learned in 2020 thanks to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food from over 40 long interviews, many webinars and a complete series on Transition Finance for Farmers.

Soil Builders, using a bond to scale regenerative approaches in West Africa

1st December 2020 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 3 Comments

An interview with Emiliano Mroue, co founder of the WARC group, on how they are applying regenerative approaches with smallholder farmers in Ghana and Sierra Leone. And how they are raising capital through the innovative New African Farmers Bond to scale their work.