419 Max Küsters - Why every pioneering regen farm should sell ecosystem services

About this episode

Max Küsters discusses the importance of selling ecosystem services for pioneering regenerative farms like Gut & Bösel.

Gut & Bösel in Alt Madlitz, Brandenburg is one of the largest regenerative farms in Europe — 3,000 hectares of arable land and forestry on some of the sandiest, driest soils in Germany. For years, farmer Benedikt Bösel and his team have been experimenting with agroforestry, holistic grazing, and composting at scale, with no blueprint and no neighbours to learn from. That experimentation costs money, takes time, and generates knowledge that other farmers benefit from for free. So they set ...

People in this episode

Host: Koen van Seijen

Guest: Max Küsters

Topics covered

• regenerative agriculture
• ecosystem services
• agroforestry
• holistic grazing
• composting
• sustainable farming

Keywords

• regenerative farming
• ecosystem services
• agroforestry
• sustainable agriculture
• Benedikt Bösel
• Germany
• farming practices

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gut & Bösel

Places: Alt Madlitz, Brandenburg, Germany

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