Regenerative Agriculture Online Course

The goal of this course is to provide trainees, students and farmers with skills and information for being able to respond to the current challenges in agriculture.

Our Regenerative Agriculture course provides practical solutions for shifting agricultural practices towards more sustainable farming methods, resulting in a balanced ecosystem and healthy products.

Course Scope

The training material includes video lectures, handouts, presentations, reading lists, links as well as knowledge quizzes.

All material is available in English and German. Subtitles are can be found for all video lectures. Each course includes six lectures divided into various lessons. Participation in the online course can be self-scheduled. Once a year, an additional face-to-face course is offered at the agricultural farm Schloss Tempelhof near Crailsheim. (depending on demand)

Instructors

Stefan Schwarzer

Stefan Schwarzer is a physical geographer and permaculture designer. He worked for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Geneva for 21 years, dealing with global environmental issues. Connecting global interests and goals with local actions, especially in the form of sustainable agriculture inspired by permaculture, is one of his main focuses. He is co-author of the book "The Humus Revolution" and initiator of the symposium and webinar series "Regenerative Agriculture". He has been living in the Community Schloss Tempelhof since the end of 2012, where he is involved to shaping practical regenerative agriculture methods.
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Maya Heilmann

Her farming journey began while studying Anthropological Agriculture, for which she lived in Bolivia for three years learning from the living wisdom of the indigenous Aymara agriculture. In order to better understand systems thinking and how to feed the soil food web in a Western context, she completed the apprenticeship for Biodynamic Farming in Germany. Since 2014, she has lived in the community of Schloss Tempelhof, where she and Sebastian have built up the regenerative and teaching farm into a flourishing production, providing vegetables for 250 persons year round. Here her focus is on biointensive cultivation, mixed cultures, nursery production and compost teas.
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Sebastian Heilmann

Since 2011, I have been active in agricultural-gardening practices and passionate about education. Among other things, I draw my experience from the establishment and farm management of the diverse, regenerative research farm and the development of the Market Garden at Tempelhof farm. As founder of Future Farmers, I develop educational materials & planning processes to empower and support other regenerative garden projects. I focus on Market Garden and regenerative vegetable gardening with courses, lectures and consulting.
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Donations welcome

We provide this course free of charge because we are interested in spreading knowledge about regenerative agricultural cultivation as widely as possible. However, as there are direct costs for maintaining the learning platform, we ask for donations to the following account so that we can make the course permanently available to all interested parties.

Any amount is welcome, guideline 50 € - 100 €. Surplus amounts will be used for the agroforestry in the community of Tempelhof.

grund-stiftung at Tempelhof Castle
Donation account at GLS Bank Bochum
IBAN DE83 4306 0967 8207 9751 03
Purpose: Donations RegAgri