This is the first of three posts sharing about a collective investigation with The Point People into what sisterhood — or regenerative—economics might mean. The second is here, and third here. This questioning began a number of years ago for me, when I came across the Feminine Business Principles created…

Until about eight years ago, I didn’t care about farming at all. I’m embarrassed to say that I thought it was boring and backward and felt that it had nothing to do with my life whatsoever. …

I am committed to building beauty, ecology and profitability on farms around the world. For me, those are the three tenets of regenerative agriculture. Currently I do this through Farmerama, Vidacycle Apps and on my family’s farm Vidacycle. I often get asked what do I mean by beauty? That’s not…

In May we met and focused on one theme: The space for care of ourselves and others. This is something that we intend to address in every monthly meeting but we also felt the need to dig deeper into this question of care. Something that often comes up in meetings…

Sunday morning early my dad and I went out to observe and investigate our soils on our farm in Chile. As you may know 2017 was a very difficult year for my family’s small farm as the mega fires in Chile consumed our farm, burning all our crops — olives…

10 future farming trends — Almost 12 years ago, my family started farming in Chile. Our time there has been full of ups and downs. We’ve survived one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, as well as a devastating forest fire that burned through all our olives and vines last year (I wrote about…

I wrote this post in January 2017 straight after the massive forest fires passed through the Loncomilla Valley where we live, I was feeling pretty disturbed by the fact that all of our good efforts to work with the land had come back to bite and actually made the fire…

This is a bit of thinking aloud: the despair at how risky farming is, how it’s a never ending learning experience and how some of our attempts to work with nature actually made things worse. I wrote this to show just how difficult it is to make decisions in farming…

I gave a talk at the FARMA annual conference a few weeks ago when I was asked to talk from a ‘millennial perspective’ to farmers and managers of farm shops & farmers markets [I’m not a big fan of the word millennial but have used it anyway!]. …