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384 Thomas Kliemt - A farming incubator with a 75% success rate (that nobody knows about) lands in Germany
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A check-in conversation with Thomas Kliemt, co-founder of Kulturland, which has been growing and they are suddenly, after 10 years in the making, an overnight success. In the first 6 months of 2025, they accelerated their fundraising by 100%, raising the same €2.5m they raised in all of 2024.
Once you enable access to land, transition it into the commons as an anti-speculation measure, and remove the huge debt burden new farmers face, who is actually going to farm this land? That’s what Thomas’ next venture is working to solve, inspired by a highly successful French model which has trained hundreds of farmers in running their businesses through incubator farms: new farmers work their own land for 3 years, run their enterprises, and receive a salary. Afterward, they are ready to take over a farm elsewhere and, remarkably, over 75% of them do. Many of the rest join other farms as employees. This is an incredibly high success rate for any incubator, and the model has already scaled to Belgium, Spain, and Finland. Now Thomas is bringing it to Germany.
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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. Introducing Thomas: Serial Region Farming Entrepreneur (00:00:00)
2. Kulturland's Growth: Commons-Based Land Access (00:03:14)
3. The Farmer Training Gap (00:09:57)
4. Incubator Farms: A Proven French Model (00:17:29)
5. Bringing the Incubator Farm Concept to Germany (00:28:06)
6. Regenerating Rural Communities (00:36:54)
7. Personal Journey and Family Farm Succession (00:46:00)
464 episodes
Manage episode 508049114 series 2920797
A check-in conversation with Thomas Kliemt, co-founder of Kulturland, which has been growing and they are suddenly, after 10 years in the making, an overnight success. In the first 6 months of 2025, they accelerated their fundraising by 100%, raising the same €2.5m they raised in all of 2024.
Once you enable access to land, transition it into the commons as an anti-speculation measure, and remove the huge debt burden new farmers face, who is actually going to farm this land? That’s what Thomas’ next venture is working to solve, inspired by a highly successful French model which has trained hundreds of farmers in running their businesses through incubator farms: new farmers work their own land for 3 years, run their enterprises, and receive a salary. Afterward, they are ready to take over a farm elsewhere and, remarkably, over 75% of them do. Many of the rest join other farms as employees. This is an incredibly high success rate for any incubator, and the model has already scaled to Belgium, Spain, and Finland. Now Thomas is bringing it to Germany.
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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!
==========================
The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes
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. Introducing Thomas: Serial Region Farming Entrepreneur (00:00:00)
2. Kulturland's Growth: Commons-Based Land Access (00:03:14)
3. The Farmer Training Gap (00:09:57)
4. Incubator Farms: A Proven French Model (00:17:29)
5. Bringing the Incubator Farm Concept to Germany (00:28:06)
6. Regenerating Rural Communities (00:36:54)
7. Personal Journey and Family Farm Succession (00:46:00)
464 episodes
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