Nick Steiner
My journey of becoming a regenerative agronomist
2012: Studied International Business in the Netherlands
2012: Founded with Philippe “Love Foundation”, where they worked on the financing of water development projects together with Viva con Agua
- the limitation of water became very fascinating
- Developed a big passion for water management – every single drop of water is valuable
- Ternerife was like a time machine for northern European countries. It shows demonstratively how living with water shortage is like
2020: Started to work at Climate Farmers to develop the educational pillar
2023: Fully focused on water management at Water Stories
Full-time focus on regenerative water management, with planning, designing and practically executing water projects on different scales.
We have either too much or too little water on farms, which leads to too many problems of erosion:
- Loots of topsoil is getting lost
- Streets need to be renewed all the time
The biggest issue is about how we can buffer water for both extreme droughts and floods
Success story
There was a lot of erosion of the pathway through water excess on a farm. They constructed a new water path to lead water differently with direct success. A lot of rain fell, and the water successfully flowed into the designated field instead of eroding the pathway.
One principle you wish more people understood
To understand what water does, how water flows in the landscapes and how water behaves in general. It would be great if farmers got out of their tractors and saw in which direction the water is flowing, where it is accumulating, and where it is causing damage – this reveals points of intervention.
“If the water does what we want to and need, every other aspect will also become easier”
“Regenerative agriculture is agriculture which creates more life, improves each year and is therefore future resilient”
— What regenerative agriculture means to me
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