I’ve compiled a list of some of the ideas for regen AgriBusinesses that I’ve somehow dug up, encountered or thought about.

• Please feel free to be inspired/steal/copypaste anything here.
• Maybe we could even do something together for common progress

Always feel free to reach out to me if you are building or want to support something along the lines of what is listed below. None of the notes below will ever be “final” or even half-way done, always work-in-progress.

My overall vision is to be part of building a “Precious Plastic” equivalent for Regenerative AgriBusinesses.

But what will that then look like concretely in the context of European Regen Ag?

There are many potential (progress-generating, accessibility-improving, envrionmentally and socioeconomically sound, scalable & profitable) paths to take. The ideas below represent bits and pieces of some approaches to take, or even places to start from.

Innovation is indeed sometimes saying no to 1000 exciting and good ideas.

Anyway, here we go…

1. Humus Sapien - Regen Cooperative

Regionally organised cooperatives that give regenerative (agroecological) farms access to economies of scale & Scope.

• An “Arla for Regen/Agroecological farming”? 🥸😇
• Or probably multiple?

If we do not organise together, we are never going to be able to make any kind of impact on the food system at large. Let’s learn from what the established industry has succeeded with and avoid the mistakes and less environmental/animal wellfare/socioeconomic friendly ways of doing business.

2. Regen Finance tool

Essentially turning what I do as a farm finance consultant today with templates but also relatively manual processes into some kind of digital service/product. Especially automating the onboarding of new clients with linking up to bank API, accounting software and record keeping structure and making a user-friendly interface that gives farmers instant overview.

3. FarmStarter

Essentially a “Kickstarter for regen farms”. Not too far from the “Steward” model, but likely starting from the gathering of demand for actual produce/products. Gather Capital from partnering funds for investments in individual Regen Farm Transitions or new stacked enterprises inlc. Pre-purchasing of products from the farming operations and option to crowdinvest.

4. Share-Farming (Joint Venture) matching platform for Regen Ag

As a landowner, it is impossible to establish, commercialise and run all the potentially beneficial stacked enterprises on a polyculture regenerative farm, and qualified farm labour is often very hard to find.

As an aspiring regenerative farmer or agribusiness owner, it is very hard to find land and the right collaborators that could lighten the heavy burden of upfront investments.

By helping these two groups of people to find each other in a facilitated process, we could drastically increase the amount regenerative farm businesses in Europe.

5. Farm Subsidy & Grant scanner

Automating the process of finding and applying for appropriate funding sources for Regen Farms, incl. Farms transitioning, rewilding areas or establishing agroforestry.