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Deep Seed - Regenerative Agriculture

Raphael Esterhazy

Welcome to the Deep Seed Podcast, your ultimate source for all things regenerative agriculture, soil health, and ecosystem restoration! Join your host, Raphaël, on an exciting journey into the heart of sustainable farming and environmental resilience. The podcast is packed with inspiring conversations with regenerative farmers, cutting-edge innovators, and leading experts who are pioneering the movement towards a more regenerative food system. Whether you’re a passionate advocate for

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1:12:04

How to Bring an Ecosystem Back to Life | Astrid Vargas

Deep Seed - Regenerative Agriculture ·

2026/09/30

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 something much bigger: restoring entire ecosystems and landscapes.In this episode, we follow that remarkable journey. We explore the silent decline of butterflies and insects, the extraordinary recovery of the Iberian lynx, what happens when predators

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1:14:56

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

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2026/09/16

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.In this episode, Willem takes us inside the thinking behind Commonland and the Four Returns framework: a long-term approach to landscape restoration that brings together ecology, agriculture, communities, business and finance.We explore why restoring

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1:35:02

How China Brought 4 Million Hectares Back to Life |...

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2026/09/09

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 work documenting the restoration of China’s Loess Plateau showed him something that would shape the rest of his life: large-scale ecological degradation is not necessarily irreversible.So if restoration is possible, why aren’t we doing it everywhere?In this

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34:25

From Soil to Plate: The Chef Who Became a Farmer

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2026/08/20

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 with her coffee to see what’s thriving, what’s ripe, and which ingredients are ready to find their way onto the menu.For a creative chef like her, it’s like paradise: a whole range of fresh and delicious ingredients to choose from. She then expertly and

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1:53:46

🇫🇷 Pierre Weill - la santé humaine commence dans les...

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2026/06/30

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 animale, alimentation humaine et santé publique.On parle de One Health, de densité nutritionnelle, d’agroécologie, de maladies chroniques, d’oméga-3, de polyphénols, de goût, de prévention, mais aussi d’un sujet essentiel : comment créer un nouveau contrat

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1:04:34

The Joy and Wonder of Being a Regenerative Farmer...

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2026/05/20

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 about agricultural policy, carbon markets, subsidies or food system bureaucracy.It is a deeply human conversation about regenerative farming, biodiversity, grazing animals, soil health, ecosystem restoration, community, belonging… and joy.For Naomi,

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44:30

Why the Food System is Breaking and How to Fix it...

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2026/04/29

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 system is becoming more fragile, more volatile, and less resilient every year.We talk about rising food insecurity, collapsing soil health, fertiliser dependency on fossil fuels, ageing farmers with no one to replace them, and a system that was never

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41:20

What If Kindness Is the Missing Piece in Regenerative...

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2026/03/31

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 episode of the Deep Seed Podcast, landscape architect Marian Boswall takes us on a journey that starts with dead soil… and leads to a completely new way of seeing land, food, and life itself. This is not your typical conversation about agriculture. It’s

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1:04:37

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

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2026/03/24

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, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali (University of Nottingham, Crops For the Future) reveals why the key to resilient, nutritious, and truly sustainable food systems might already exist—hidden in so-called “forgotten crops.”We unpack how modern agriculture became dangerously

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1:14:44

The Farming System Is Broken... And Farmers Know It!...

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2026/03/17

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 devastating farm fire and facing years of financial losses during COVID, David started posting honest videos about life on his farm — and unexpectedly built an audience of millions.Today, his content offers a rare window into the real economics of

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1:42:33

How This Regenerative Farmer Cut Costs and Increased...

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2026/03/03

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 farm from a high-input, chemical-dependent system into a diversified regenerative farming model using:Companion croppingLivestock integrationAgroforestryReduced synthetic nitrogenBiological soil health principlesAnd here’s the kicker:He slashed growing

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59:10

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

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2026/02/24

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 contributor to the Lancet Commission on Food Systems, to explore a perspective we rarely hear in the regenerative agriculture movement.Because here’s the uncomfortable truth:👉 Many smallholder farmers in India are already farming regeneratively — not because it’s

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54:09

Does Regenerative Agriculture Actually Work? [LYNN...

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2026/02/17

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 Professor Lynn Dicks shares groundbreaking real-world research from commercial farms in the UK and India — revealing what the science actually says about regenerative agriculture, agroecology, nature-based solutions, and the future of our food system.This

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1:34:28

How Do We Really Scale Regenerative Agriculture?...

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2026/02/03

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 farmers feel trapped, why markets alone won’t fix our food systems, and how credible impact measurement — paired with smart policy and aligned incentives — could unlock transition at scale.Whether you’re a farmer, a food-chain professional, a policymaker,

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1:33:25

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

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2026/01/27

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 future could look like.We cover:Why the food system is fundamentally unsustainableThe 3 “lock-ins” keeping us stuckHow planetary boundaries apply to farming and dietsThe myth of green growthWhat gives Tim hope — and what needs to change nowThis is one of

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1:17:25

True Cost of Cheap Food: How to Fix Our Broken Food...

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2026/01/20

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 on the true cost of our food. From soil health and ecosystem collapse to diet-related disease and skyrocketing healthcare costs, Adele explains how we’re already paying the true price of industrial farming. And it’s way more than what we spend at the

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16:23

Rewind #11 - Syntropic Agroforesty: Farming like a...

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2025/12/18

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, Antonio shares his deeply inspiring journey into entropic agroforestry, a form of regenerative agriculture that mimics forest ecosystems to grow food, restore land, and rebuild water cycles. He explains how complex, layered polycultures can outcompete

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Rewind #10 - how to bring a river BACK TO LIFE with...

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2025/12/16

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, wells ran dry, and the river disappeared. But through radical listening, community trust, and regenerative agriculture, a new vision is starting to emerge. Rooted in hope, soil, and local food systems. This episode is about reimagining what rural life can

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20:07

Rewind #9 - How to prove regenerative agriculture...

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2025/12/12

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 fluff! Just clear, data-informed tools to guide land restoration at scale. Peter explains how satellite data, targeted soil testing, and simple metrics like biomass productivity, plant cover, and input efficiency can help farmers, funders, and

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18:41

Rewind #8 - Why farmers are paid so little in the...

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2025/12/11

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 episode, agronomist and regenerative ag pioneer Nicolas Verschuere unpacks how we can rebuild fair, functional value chains that truly reward farmers without making food more expensive. From launching a barley-to-beer cooperative in Belgium to scaling

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