A Good Conversation About Regeneration #2

Week #2 of a Good Conversation (about regeneration), our small Anglo-Dutch journey into the regenerative movement, is now complete!

We shall overcome Brexit (and the North Sea) as we dive ever deeper into regenerative #farming #business #culture.

In todays chat we learned, most importantly, Jaap and Niels are actual farmers now (or will be very soon!). The Market Garden is starting.
Two years ago they decided to be serious about fixing the problems we face, they needed to change the system. And where better to do this than on the land. Now they are farmers.

Today we talked about regenerative principles that might inspire / translate to business.

• Ownership models are important. On their regenerative farm, nobody should own the soil and the community it serves should have a controlling stake in the rest of the business. What do these ownership ideas mean for business more generally?
• Jaap asked the question : if nature set up a business, what would it look like? Sander Bosman spoke about the importance of scale and diversity to create dynamic regenerative systems…
• Matt Tipping joined us again too. He shared the view that regenerative models translate to business in their culture. The culture - the norms, practises are behaviours - are either re-generative or not. An organisation's culture is the equivalent of soil in the forest; it determines it’s health and vitality.

We set the Good Conversation up as a place to learn and share… and that’s what we’re doing.
Thanks to Matt and Sander for your contributions this week.

Next week we might go deeper into a question which came up today….

If nature set up a business, what would it look like?

What do you think?

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