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
Continued a masters in innovation and entrepreneurship
Developed a passion for regenration and permaculture
Moved to Tenerife in 2017, volenteers at diffent farms and practically learned a lot:
- the limitation of water became very facinating
- Developed big passion for water management – everz single drop of water is valueble
- Ternerife was showing like a time macihine for northern European countries that shows demonstrativly how living with water shortage looks like
For years Nick has been preaching about water and provided workshops
2020: Started to work at Climate Farmers develop the educational pillar
2023: Fully focused on water management at Water Stories
Full time focus on regnerative water management, with planning, designing and practically executing water projects on diffent scales.
Main Challenges for farmers transition
We have eighter way 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 puffer 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. Lots of rain came, and the water was successfully to the designated field instead of eroding the pathway.
One principle you wish more people understood
To understand what water does, how water is flowing in the landscapes and how water behaves in general. It would be great if farmers go out of their tractor and see in which direction the water is flowing, where it is accumulating, and where it is destoring – this shows points of interference.
“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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