2nd Annual EARA Conference
What a great opportunity, alongside other farmers, to amplify the voice of Greek farmers in the European discussions. This year, at the 2nd EARA conference, farmers & their families celebrated achievements, shared needs, exchanged best practices & found ways to promote the CAP proposal prioritizing the farmer, focusing on economic viability & resilient farming operations, based on healthy agroecosystems.
European Mission Soil Week
Our co-founder Sheila Darmos has been recognised for her advocacy work through Regenerative Farming Greece, as a farmer and social entrepreneur, in promoting the transition towards healthy soils. In the spirit of uniting movements of collective efforts to protect and improve the future of Europe’s soils, the European Mission Soil Week 2024 gathered great speakers and pioneers in Brussels. We’re honored to receive this recognition and further share insights with a great, engaged audience!
4 per 1000 Mediterranean Regional Conference
Our director, Sheila Darmos, was part of a very important minority group – farmers – present at the conference led by 4p1000 Initiative aimed at co-drafting a roadmap to clearly outline the steps in making the transition happen.Thank you for the kind invitation and great effort in enabling agroecological practices to be implemented in farming across the Mediterranean!
RAW! Regenerative Agriculture Works – training events
Co-funded by EIT food, we organised a series of 7 trainings for farmers across Greece on regenerative farming. More than 140 farmers participated in the 1-day trainings that happened in Athens, Kalamata, Corfu, Sparta, Kyparissia, Chania and Corinth. During the events, which were separated in two parts, participants had the opportunity to visit a farm that applies non-conventional practices and learn from the experts about regenerative farming and transition.
1st Hellenic Agroforestry Conference
We are very happy that the 1st Agroforestry conference took place in Greece and we hope to see it evolve into many more conferences attended by farmers, as a tool to implement them across our landscapes! Thank you Hellenic Agroforestry Network for organizing this event, and inviting us to share our experience with agroforestry in the context of regenerative agriculture.
The People’s Food Summit 2024
Side by side with Simon Kraemer, we were interviewed about the recently founded EARA – the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture, of which our director, Sheila Darmos, is a founding member. We discussed the crucial role it has with its approach “from farmers to farmers” and the influence it can bring to the movement in Europe.
We are deeply grateful to Regeneration International for streaming this interview at their impressive yearly worldwide event, The People’s Food Summit in October 2024.
Interview on YouTube with Istorima
A video interview featuring our headquarters farm: The Southern Lights – an agroforestry farm in South Peloponnese with main crops of citrus and olives. Watch the video to know the history of this farm, as well as the logic and values we are guided by while managing it. We are deeply grateful to Istorima for showcasing to so many people in Greece the evolution of our farm and philosophy throughout the years.
Audio in Greek.
7th World Organic Forum
The World Organic Forum VII, a melting pot of movements, from Agroecology, to Natural Farming, Regenerative Agriculture, Conservation Agriculture, and so on. We spoke about the role that each of our movements plays in the transition of agriculture and our complementarity in going forward united.
Groundswell UK
We were invited to participate in the Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival in the UK.
This event gathered many professionals and organizations in the field, marking it as a great opportunity to exchange best practices with those doing similar work as ours at a global scale.
2024 Regenerate Europe Conferece
Sheila Darmos was a panel speaker at the Regenerate Europe Conference, side by side with Yanniek Schoonhoven from La Junquera farm, also a regenerative farmer and member of EARA.
