What happens when a tobacco empire transforms into a thriving regenerative farm? In this episode of the Deep Seed Podcast, we visit Monte Silveira, a 1,000-hectare farm in central Portugal, where João Valente has revived one of Europe’s oldest agro-silvopastoral systems.

From 0.7% soil organic matter to over 5%, and from monocultures to thriving biodiversity, João shares how nature became his most profitable business partner. You’ll learn how rotational grazing, intercropping, and keyline design are helping regenerate both land and livelihoods in one of Europe’s driest regions.

This conversation is full of timeless lessons for farmers, scientists, and land stewards alike.

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🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🌳 Montado magic: Discover how a 10,000-year-old oak-based system balances trees, animals, and humans

🐄 Rotational grazing reimagined: How goats, sheep, pigs, and cows move through the land to regenerate perennial grasslands

🌾 No-till + intercropping = soil magic: Why millet, sunflower, and legumes are João’s powerhouse combo

💧 Keyline design in action: How 8,000 new cork oaks were planted to harvest water and revive degraded slopes

💰 Regeneration is profitable: From increasing biodiversity to lowering input costs, João proves that better farming = better business

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health.

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Useful links:

• Monte SIlveira - https://www.montesilveira.com/

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Two fine-dining chefs moved to rural Portugal to build a regenerative agriculture project focused on market gardening, nutrient-dense food, and soil health. Meet The Farming Chefs! 👨‍🍳

Philippe and Sophie are blending regenerative farming, no-dig gardening, rotational grazing, and nutrient-dense cooking on their five-hectare farm in central Portugal. Using mobile chicken tractors, compost teas, and a thriving herb garden, they’re regenerating the land... and teaching the world how to grow tasty nutrient-dense food at home!

🍅 In this episode, we cover:

• How a no-dig market garden can out-yield bigger farms (with less work)

• Why nutrient-dense food tastes better (and how it can restore your health)

• How to integrate chickens and sheep to regenerate degraded grasslands

• How to build a thriving herb garden from local cuttings… for free!

• Why edutainment is a powerful tool to scale the regenerative movement

📌 LISTEN FOR:

🟢 15:32 – The aquatic plant that’s feeding chickens free protein

🌿 26:10 – Sophie’s 150+ plant herb garden

🍳 41:00 – Why chefs are the secret weapon of the regenerative movement

📣 47:45 – “Farmers deserve rockstar status. They’re regenerating our future.”

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The Farming Chefs also run a fast-growing YouTube channel where they teach regenerative practices through fun, practical, visually rich tutorials. Their blend of storytelling, flavor, and ecological wisdom is one of the most inspiring in the movement today.

❤️ This episode was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health & biodiversity.

Thank you for listening, all the best,

Raphaël

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This week, we visit Culy Creek Ranch in northern Spain and meet the unstoppable Meghan Sapp, a holistic grazing expert and co-founder of the Savory Institute’s hub for Spain.

Learn how holistic grazing, soil biodiversity, and smart ecosystem design created a farm so resilient it feeds itself — and the local economy.

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In this episode, we dive into:

🌱 How to turn compacted, degraded land into a regenerative agriculture success story using horses, chickens, and goats

🐎 The role of holistic grazing in boosting pasture productivity — while reducing hay costs

🌾 Partnering with a top local restaurant to bring farm-to-table sourcing and regenerative practices together

🥚 The relationship between holistic management, soil health and nutrient density

🌻 How regenerative farming principles contribute to climate resilience, food quality, and economic viability

🧪 Insights from the Savory Institute’s ecological outcome verification for tracking regeneration and carbon sequestration

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Whether you’re a regenerative farmer, chef, soil scientist, or simply curious about sustainable food systems — this episode is packed with actionable insights, inspiring stories, and serious soil wisdom.

❤️ This episode was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health & biodiversity.

🎯 Don’t forget to follow the show, rate the episode, and share it with a friend who loves dirt. It helps Deep Seed grow and reach more change-makers like you!

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🔗 Useful Links:

Soil Capital (Website)

Curly Creek Ranch (Instagram)

Meghan Sapp (Linkedin)

Deep Seed podcast (Website)

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Biodiversity is not just about saving bees… it’s about saving ourselves!

In this episode, Oliver Dauert joins us to explore why protecting biodiversity is essential to human survival, food security, and climate resilience. From beavers engineering entire wetland ecosystems to soil microbes collaborating with plants, this is your crash course in how nature actually works and how we can rewild it before it’s too late.

Whether you’re a regenerative farmer, climate optimist, soil geek, or just looking to reconnect with nature, this conversation will rewild your thinking and get you excited about what’s still possible.

🌍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• What biodiversity really means (and why it’s more than just saving cute animals)

• Why beavers are better water engineers than most humans

• How wolves are rebalancing European ecosystems — and freaking out farmers

• The untold story of pollinators (spoiler: it’s not just bees)

• Why farmers can (and must) be biodiversity’s best allies

• How regenerative agriculture and rewilding can work together, not against each other

🔧 Actionable Takeaways:

• The easiest way anyone can reconnect with the living world in just 5 minutes

• How farmers can boost yields and biodiversity at the same time

• Why building wildlife corridors between farms is key to ecosystem restoration

• The real reason biodiversity loss is invisible — and how to see clearly again

💚 Subscribe to Deep Seed for weekly insights into regenerative agriculture, agroecology, rewilding, ecosystem restoration, and the seeds of a more abundant future.

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This episode was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health & biodiversity.

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🔗 Useful Links:

• Soil Capital - accelerating regenerative agriculture

• Follow Oliver Dauert on LinkedIn

🎥 Documentaries:

• Our Planet (Netflix)

• Life on Our Planet – David Attenborough

📚 Books:

• Rewilding by Cain Blythe

• A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

📱 Apps:

• PlantNet

• Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Un épisode fascinant à ne pas manquer ! On part en immersion dans le sud-ouest de la France, sur une ferme d’amandes bio-régénérative à la vision radicale. Martin d’Archimbaud, co-fondateur de GreenPods, nous ouvre les portes de La Granja, un projet agricole unique qui pourrait bien changer le visage de la filière amande en Europe.

Moins d’eau, plus de biodiversité, zéro chimie, des couverts végétaux colorés et une passion débordante pour les arbres : ici, on ne se contente pas de planter, on régénère les sols, on construit un modèle agricole résilient et local, et on s’attaque à l’hégémonie californienne sur la production d’amandes.

Si vous pensez que l’agriculture peut être à la fois belle, rentable et régénératrice, cet épisode est pour vous.

Dans cet épisode, on parle de :

• L’histoire d’une reconversion de monoculture de maïs vers une ferme d’amandes bio régénérative

• Comment l’arbre devient un allié du climat et un levier de relocalisation alimentaire

• Les secrets agronomiques pour créer un verger résilient : irrigation de précision, taille, variétés, fumier, biochar…

• L’impact des couverts végétaux et des pratiques bio sur la santé des sols

• Et pourquoi la résilience long terme est bien plus rentable que la productivité court terme

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Useful links:

• GREENPODS / LA GRANJA - Link

• Acheter des amandes - Link

• Martin d’Archimbaud - Linkedin

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🍷 Can regenerative agriculture revolutionize the wine industry? Stephen Cronk, founder of Maison Mirabeau, thinks so—and he’s proving it, vine by vine.

After leaving London’s corporate world to build an internationally recognized rosé brand in Provence, Stephen took on his biggest challenge yet: turning a chemically exhausted vineyard into a thriving ecosystem using regenerative farming.

In this episode, we dive into his incredible journey, the science behind regenerative viticulture, and why the future of wine depends on healthier soils, more biodiversity, and working with nature rather than against it. Whether you love wine, sustainability, or just a great comeback story—this episode is unmissable.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ How regenerative agriculture is transforming vineyards and wine quality

✅ The surprising environmental impact of traditional viticulture (and how to fix it)

✅ Why soil health is the secret to better grapes, better wine, and a more resilient future

✅ How Stephen is leading the regenerative wine movement—and what’s next for viticulture

✅ Practical strategies for farmers and winemakers to start regenerating their land

Why This Matters:

🌍 Vineyards make up just 3% of EU farmland but use up to 20% of its pesticides. The wine industry is at a crossroads: continue down the path of chemical dependency or embrace a more sustainable, regenerative future. Stephen Cronk is showing that regenerative viticulture isn’t just good for the planet—it also makes better wine, healthier vines, and stronger businesses.

Tune in now to explore how regenerative farming can reshape the wine industry—one vineyard at a time!

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health.

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Useful links:

• Maison Mirabeau - Link

• Regenerative Viticulture Foundation - Link

• Stephen Cronk - Linkedin

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What if, instead of just growing food, we focused on maximizing the Earth’s ability to produce life? 🚀 In this episode, we sit down with Peter Fröhlich, a Swiss farmer, entrepreneur, and agroecology innovator, who is turning conventional wisdom on its head.

He reveals why biomass—not just crops—holds the key to saving agriculture, why plowing can sometimes be regenerative, and how he’s developing an outcome-based system that could revolutionize farming worldwide. 🌍

If you’re a farmer, food producer, climate advocate, or simply someone who cares about how we feed the world without destroying the planet, this episode is NOT to be missed. It is packed with game-changing insights for anyone in farming, food production, or environmental science.

Hit play now and join the movement toward a more resilient, regenerative future! 🎙️🚜

Inside This Episode:

🌾 Why regenerative agriculture is non-negotiable—it’s not just about food, it’s about our planet’s future.

🌍 Biomass is everything: how maximizing plant growth can restore soil, cut emissions, and improve biodiversity.

📊 The power of data: why measuring soil health, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem services is the future of farming.

🔬 Lasers vs. Glyphosate? Why Peter is testing laser weeding and rethinking herbicide use.

💰 How to make regenerative farming profitable—without relying on government subsidies.

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health.

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Useful links:

• AgriCircle - https://agricircle.com/

• Peter Fröhlich - Linkedin

  
  

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🌱 Can We Make an Entire Food System Regenerative?

Sweden’s food system isn’t regenerative—at least, not yet. But Sara Maxence is working to change that. With a background in big agri-food corporations, she’s seen firsthand the challenges of shifting towards sustainability. Now, she’s leading an effort to bring farmers, processors, and policymakers together to explore how Sweden can transition from an extractive, industrial food model to one that is more diverse, resilient, and soil-friendly.

In this episode, we dive into the early steps of this journey: breaking down silos, testing new financing models, and creating real demand for regenerative crops. If you’re curious about how regenerative agriculture can scale beyond individual farms—and what needs to change at the system level—this episode is packed with valuable insights and fresh ideas.

🌾 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ Why our food system is stuck—and how to start shifting it

✅ How Sweden’s farmers are experimenting with regenerative practices

✅ The challenge of selling diverse, soil-friendly crops in a wheat-dominated market

✅ How digital tools and financing models could accelerate the transition

✅ Why Europe’s agricultural policies (CAP) can both help and hinder change

Sweden is early in this process, but Sara’s work offers a fascinating case study on what it takes to move from concept to action. Listen now to explore the opportunities and challenges of making food systems truly regenerative!

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health.

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Useful links:

• Regenerator - https://regenerator.nu/

• Sara Maxence - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-h%C3%A5kanson-maxence/

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