Last month, a cohort of Savory Network members became founding farmers of the new European Alliance of Regenerative Agriculture (EARA), and to say that the Savory Network and Holistic Management were well represented would be an understatement. Convening at the Farmer’s Castle (Schloss Kirchberg) in southern Germany, attendees from 20 different countries were hand-picked for this founding event.
“It was a surprise and a delight to find so many familiar faces there,” said Meghan Sapp, Savory Hub leader of Hub Del Norte in Spain, “and to see how easily the rest of the farmers aligned with our ideas and suggestions in everything from the newly established principles of regenerative agriculture as well as the vision and mission.”
EARA is a farmer-led coordination and political advocacy organization of the movement of regenerative agriculture at the European level. It has been set up following the realization that in order to manage land holistically at a farm level to its full potential, that farm needs to be working within holistically developed and governed policy and food systems.
Savory Hubs and Holistic Management educators are well represented in the founding membership and one of the next steps will be to widen the membership to farmers regenerating their land in Europe to lobby for change in policy development, governance, and education in their own countries and help the operational team work at a European level.
In addition to the founding event, Savory Network members William Houston (accredited educator) and Anna Juhasz (Hungary Savory Hub leader) were at COP28 in Dubai for the unveiling of EARA’s recently launched whitepaper, titled “Together for Regenerative Agrifood Ecosystems.” The announcement webinar can be viewed here (embedding of the video has been turned off by the video owner, hence the outside link): https://www.youtube.com/live/C6blFT5NKDQ?si=_HRHRFDTLxWZ402s
