Deep Seed - Regenerative Agriculture

How to Bring an Ecosystem Back to Life | Astrid Vargas

Astrid Vargas has spent her life helping bring endangered species back from the brink of extinction, from the black-footed ferret in North America to the Iberian lynx in Spain. But over the years, her focus expanded from saving individual species to...

The 20-Year Plan to Restore Nature at Scale [WILLEM FERWERDA]

What does it actually take to restore nature? Not just on individual farms or through isolated projects, but across entire landscapes? For more than a decade, ecologist and Commonland founder Willem Ferwerda has been working on exactly that question...

How China Brought 4 Million Hectares Back to Life | John D. Liu

What if humanity already knows how to restore the ecosystems we have degraded? For more than three decades, filmmaker and ecologist John D. Liu has documented some of the world’s most ambitious efforts to bring damaged landscapes back to life. His w...

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From Soil to Plate: The Chef Who Became a Farmer

A few years ago, Anna Wynants decided to combine her two biggest passions: farming and cooking. She opened ‘De Keukentafel’, which is both a small organic regenerative farm and a fine dining restaurant. Every morning, she walks into the gardens wi...

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🇫🇷 Pierre Weill - la santé humaine commence dans les sols!

Et si notre santé ne commençait pas dans l’assiette… mais bien plus bas, dans les sols ? Dans cet épisode, je reçois Pierre Weill, agronome, auteur de Une seule santé et pionnier d’une approche qui relie santé des sols, santé des plantes, santé anim...

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The Joy and Wonder of Being a Regenerative Farmer [Naomi Oakley & Gunnar Thelin]

In this episode of Deep Seed, regenerative farmers Naomi Oakley and Gunnar Thelin explore what modern agriculture could become if we stopped treating nature as a machine and started listening to living systems again. This is not another conversation...

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Why the Food System is Breaking and How to Fix it [IVO DEGN]

Let me ask you this: do you think Europe can feed itself in 20–30 years under current conditions? In this episode of the Deep Seed Podcast, I sit down with Ivo Degn (Re:source) to unpack a reality very few people are willing to face: Europe’s food...

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What If Kindness Is the Missing Piece in Regenerative Agriculture?

What if restoring our soils isn’t just a scientific challenge… but an emotional, even spiritual one? What if the future of farming depends as much on beauty, connection, and intention as it does on data, yields, and carbon? In this powerful episo...

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The Crops That Could Save Our Food System (but we ignore them...)

What if the future of food isn’t high-tech… but ancient wisdom? We’ve built a global food system on just four crops... and it’s starting to crack! The real question is: what happens when it breaks? In this episode of the Deep Seed Podcast, Prof...

The Farming System Is Broken... And Farmers Know It! [DAVID WHEATLEY]

What happens when a farmer publicly admits that modern agriculture might be broken? In this episode, British farmer David Wheatley joins the Deep Seed Podcast to share the unfiltered reality of modern farming. After losing almost everything in a dev...

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How This Regenerative Farmer Cut Costs and Increased Profits [JAMES BUCHER]

What happens when a former hedge fund trader walks away from finance… survives a near-fatal accident… and rebuilds his farm using regenerative agriculture? In this episode of the Deep Seed Podcast, James Butcher shares how he transformed his Suffolk f...

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India’s Farming Revolution Is Led by Women 🇮🇳 [NITYA RAO]

What if the future of regenerative agriculture won’t be decided in Europe… but in India, Africa, and the Global South? In this powerful Deep Seed mini-episode, we sit down with Professor Nitya Rao, leading gender and climate researcher and contribut...

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Does Regenerative Agriculture Actually Work? Top Scientist Answers [LYNN DICKS]

Can regenerative agriculture really restore biodiversity, rebuild soil health, increase farmer profits and still feed the world? Or is it just a powerful story we want to believe? In this evidence-based Deep Seed conversation, biodiversity scientist...

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How Do We Really Scale Regenerative Agriculture? [ANDREW VOYSEY]

In this episode of Deep Seed, I sit down with Andrew Voysey, Chief Impact Officer at Soil Capital, to go beyond slogans and dig into what it actually takes to scale regenerative agriculture in a world built for short-term output. We unpack why most...

Why the Food System is About to Collapse [TIM BENTON]

Our food system is on the verge of collapse — but we can fix it. In this episode, we’re joined by Tim Benton, one of the world’s leading experts on food security, to unpack the deep systemic drivers behind the crisis… and what a truly regenerative f...

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True Cost of Cheap Food: How to Fix Our Broken Food System [ADELE JONES]

What if every bite of cheap food you eat is secretly costing society triple the price you paid at checkout? In this eye-opening episode, food systems expert Adele Jones (former Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trust) pulls back the curtain...

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Rewind #11 - Syntropic Agroforesty: Farming like a Forest [ANTONIO COELHO]

In one of the driest, most degraded landscapes in Europe, farmer and agroforester Antonio Coelho has built 60 cm of fertile topsoil, raised organic matter to 7.4%, and slashed irrigation by 85% - all in just six years! In this #REWIND episode, Anto...

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Rewind #10 - how to bring a river BACK TO LIFE with Regenerative Agriculture [SILVIA QUARTA]

What if you could bring a dead river back to life by working with farmers, not against them? In this powerful #REWIND episode, Silvia Quarta shares the story of a forgotten valley in one of Europe’s driest regions, where springs stopped flowing, w...

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Rewind #9 - How to prove regenerative agriculture really works! [PETER FROHLICH]

What if we stopped just talking about regeneration… and started measuring it? In this #REWIND episode, Peter Fröhlich, engineer, farmer, and co-founder of AgriPurpose, lays out a powerful, outcome-driven approach to regenerative agriculture. No...

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Rewind #8 - Why farmers are paid so little in the current system [NICOLAS VERSCHUERE]

This episode will change the way you think about farming, food, and fairness. When we talk about regenerative agriculture, we often focus on soil. But what about value? What about money, structure, and power in the food system? In this #REWIND ep...

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