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381 Sarah Hellebek - Training Denmark’s next farmers with practitioners, not professors
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A walking the land episode with Sarah Hellebek, deputy head at Krogerup Højskole, who spent years at the heart of Denmark’s climate activist movement. By most measures, she was successful, climate made it onto the political agenda, though never strongly enough. But the fight came with a cost: it also made her pretty depressed, she was- in her own words- mostly shouting in front of the Parliament.
Until a tour visiting progressive Danish farmers exposed her to the world of regeneration and she dove right into it. After spending a lot of time on different farms she noticed the need to train the next generation, as the current ag school system in Denmark (and everywhere else for that matter) doesn’t prepare you to run farms and embrace complexity. So she started her own school, outside the free super subsidied Danish school system.
We talk about why the next generation of farmers has to be trained by practitioners not teachers and why your holistic context is so important and pretty scary to dive into that in week 1 of your education.
She felt she had to get some dirt under her nails and set up a market garden which hosts a lot of activities. We end with a deep dive into our role as positive key stone species.
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In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.
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Chapters
1. Template (00:00:00)
2. What is the one thing smart investors, who want to invest in reg ag and food, should remember (00:40:47)
3. What would you do if you were in charge of a 1B investment portfolio tomorrow morning? (00:45:50)
4. If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing, what would that be? (00:49:13)
5. What do you believe is true about regenerative agriculture that others don’t believe to be true? Inspired by John Kempf (00:51:37)
461 episodes
Manage episode 504008390 series 2920797
A walking the land episode with Sarah Hellebek, deputy head at Krogerup Højskole, who spent years at the heart of Denmark’s climate activist movement. By most measures, she was successful, climate made it onto the political agenda, though never strongly enough. But the fight came with a cost: it also made her pretty depressed, she was- in her own words- mostly shouting in front of the Parliament.
Until a tour visiting progressive Danish farmers exposed her to the world of regeneration and she dove right into it. After spending a lot of time on different farms she noticed the need to train the next generation, as the current ag school system in Denmark (and everywhere else for that matter) doesn’t prepare you to run farms and embrace complexity. So she started her own school, outside the free super subsidied Danish school system.
We talk about why the next generation of farmers has to be trained by practitioners not teachers and why your holistic context is so important and pretty scary to dive into that in week 1 of your education.
She felt she had to get some dirt under her nails and set up a market garden which hosts a lot of activities. We end with a deep dive into our role as positive key stone species.
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In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.
==========================
👩🏻💻 YOUR OUR WEBSITE
💪🏻 SUPPORT OUR WORK
- Join Gumroad
- Share it
- Give a 5-star rating
- Buy us a coffee… or a meal!
==========================
🎙 LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST AND SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL OR WATCH IT ON 📽️ our YouTube channel
==========================
FOLLOW US!
Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!
Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:
https://gen-re.land/
Discount code for €200 of: Investinginregenerativeagriculture
Fresh Ventures Studio online course Nov 2025
Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more here
Feedback, ideas, suggestions?
- Twitter @KoenvanSeijen
- Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com
Join our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P!
Support the show
Thanks for listening and sharing!
Chapters
1. Template (00:00:00)
2. What is the one thing smart investors, who want to invest in reg ag and food, should remember (00:40:47)
3. What would you do if you were in charge of a 1B investment portfolio tomorrow morning? (00:45:50)
4. If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing, what would that be? (00:49:13)
5. What do you believe is true about regenerative agriculture that others don’t believe to be true? Inspired by John Kempf (00:51:37)
461 episodes
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