Journal
Stories of Transformation
From Soil to Sovereignty: Thomas Patton on the Vision Behind Lega Vera
Modern systems make life easier, but they also make it harder to see what sustains us. Thomas Patton is developing Lega Vera in Panama, a farm village that evolved from regenerative agriculture and a desire to live closer to soil, food, and responsibility.
Cultivation as Connection: Jennifer Jewell on the Human Impulse to Garden
A garden is never just a garden. Jennifer Jewell of Cultivating Place reveals how gardening deepens our relationship with place and strengthens the living systems we depend on.
Kevala Retreat: A Wisconsin Sanctuary for Regenerative Living
In south-central Wisconsin, Kevala Retreat offers 68 acres of meadow, forest, and orchard—a rare property that embodies regenerative living through design, ecology, and mindful stewardship.
Financing Nature: Adam Davis on the Economics of Ecological Restoration
Can markets help heal the planet? Adam Davis of Ecosystem Investment Partners explains how mitigation banking channels private capital into ecological restoration, creating systems where regeneration and profitability advance together.
Bridging the Gap: Jasper van Brakel and the Regenerative Power of Finance
Finance doesn’t have to be extractive—Jasper van Brakel of RSF Social Finance reveals how capital, when aligned with purpose, can become a tool for regeneration and systemic healing.
Cultivating Abundance: Penny Livingston on Designing with Nature
Designing with nature to create abundance—Penny Livingston on the power of permaculture in real estate.
5 Landscaping Trends That Revitalize Your Home and the Planet
More homeowners are adopting regenerative land management practices that transform ordinary yards into beautiful sanctuaries that heal both the earth and themselves.
Sustainable Settings: 244-Acre Biodynamic Ranch in Colorado
Latitude connects legacy properties with a new generation of stewards. Explore Sustainable Settings, a 244-acre biodynamic ranch serving as a living laboratory exploring art, science, and consciousness within its natural environment.
Ecological Landscaping with Tres Crow
Landscaping is a multibillion dollar a year industry. It’s predicated upon fossil fuels, non-native ornamental plants, synthetic fertilizers, and heavy water use. For Georgia-based company Roots Down, they see this industry as ripe for change.
Listening to Your Land with Jo Petroni
The way we build our homes is a mirror of our perceived relationship with nature. Our homes today are an embodiment of separation. The first step on a path of reconnection is to find nature and tune into the elements of sun, wind, and rain.
Technology and Agriculture with Dorn Cox
Farmer and technologist Dorn Cox believes we are living through extraordinary times when open source technology can be spread for little to no cost to help people revolutionize how we practice agriculture and steward land.
Rewilding the World with Hannah Lewis
The Miyawaki Method is a unique approach to reforestation devised by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Author Hannah Lewis explains how tiny forests as small as six parking spaces grow quickly and are much more biodiverse than those planted by conventional methods.
Making an Enchanted Forest with Dani Baker
Dani Baker is the owner of Cross Island Farm in New York. After spending long hours in her annual market garden, she turned to permaculture principals to help transform her property into a perennial edible food forest.
Setting Inspirational Examples with Ben Falk
Ben Falk is one of the most prominent figures in the world of ecological design but he didn't always see that path as his future. At a young age, he was drawn toward acts of dramatic protest, like sleeping in trees. But eventually he had an epiphany: the best way to inspire change is not to yell at or shame people, but to show them a better way to live.
Driving Change Through Agriculture Investing with Chris Rawley
Agriculture is not a typical investment category that one may think about when they think of real estate investing. Yet if we are going to have more regenerative farmers, they are going to need access to capital. Harvest Returns is an online platform that connects small farmers and producers with agriculture-specific investors.
From Ecological Collapse to Thriving with Jesse McDougall
There is a utopic vision that farmers will put down their pesticides, herbicides, and other chemical cocktails conceived and peddled to eradicate pests and weeds in order to save the planet. However the challenge is that the land can become so degraded that once you go cold turkey and stop applying chemicals, everything seems to collapse around you.
Acts of Restorative Kindness
Despite being named one of the top ten landscape designers of all time, Mary Reynolds describes herself as an ex-gardener. That’s because after years spent designing award-winning gardens and landscapes across the globe, Mary was tired of fighting nature back to fit into the mold in which she originally designed.
The Regen Network with Gregory Landua
The cutting edge of regenerative technology is aligning market incentives with regenerative land stewardship. This is an area that Gregory Landua and his colleagues with the Regen Network have been pioneering since 2017 as they began asking questions of how to scale impact and help farmers and land managers switch to regenerative practices.
Regenerative Agriculture Financing with Dan Miller
Combining his background in the creation of one of the world's first crowdfunding platforms for real estate, Fundrise, with his passion for regenerative agriculture, Dan Miller set his sights on helping farmers and food producers get access to necessary financing. Steward now helps to decommodify food while giving people like you the ability to invest in their local food chain while earning a healthy return.
Holistic Management with Bobby Gill
As we all collectively search for solutions to address the large, complex problems we are facing in the 21st century, The Savory Institute is taking a bold lead with a land management framework that is helping to regenerate land, sequester carbon, reconnect the hydrological cycle, and springboard biodiversity across continents.