Practical regeneration without easy answers.
Regenerative Skills follows the practical work behind regenerative agriculture. Led by Oliver Gaucher, it moves between farmer panels, deep-dive narration, and interviews on soil science, community transition, waste loops, and climate adaptation.
PRESS PLAY
Regenerative Skills is an agriculture and ecological transition show with its boots in the field and its questions pointed at the systems around it. Oliver Gaucher leads conversations that keep returning to a central tension: regeneration sounds simple until farmers, researchers, communities, markets, and weather all have to meet in the same reality. The show is practical. It is also deliberately resistant to easy answers. Episodes examine the gap between academic institutions and farms, asking why useful research often stays locked in journals, controlled trials, or extension systems that working farmers cannot easily use. Other episodes focus on closing loops, turning manure, bedding, prunings, wood waste, food scraps, gray water, and other overlooked materials into fertility or economic value. The details matter here. Regeneration is discussed through costs, permits, labor, measurement, resilience, and long time horizons, not just ideals. Panel sessions bring farmers and practitioners into topic-focused conversations on climate adaptation, storms, floods, erosion, agroforestry, and recovery after natural disasters. Deep-dive episodes use narration, interview clips, and broader framing to slow down debates that can become flattened online. The show is especially strong when it lets complexity stay visible. A segment on trees becomes a discussion of rainfall, groundwater, wind protection, evapotranspiration, and irrigation pressure. A discussion of soil organic matter becomes a frank look at money being tied up in long-term land health. Episodes also reach beyond the farm gate into regenerative communities, Transition Towns, education, certification, and the cultural work of moving from knowledge to practice. Guests and panelists bring named experience from biodynamic farming, community transition, soil science, and climate farming programs. The editorial stance is clear without being dogmatic. Farmers are treated as central authorities because they test techniques in context and carry the economic risk. The show suits listeners who want the vocabulary of regeneration grounded in land, water, tools, budgets, and people making decisions under pressure.
Made for: For farmers, land stewards, food-system thinkers, climate adaptation workers, and curious listeners who want grounded conversations about regenerative agriculture. It best suits people willing to sit with tradeoffs, measurement challenges, and on-farm realities.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pairing farm-level practicality with deep skepticism toward buzzwords. It gives room to messy systems: research access, economic pressure, climate shocks, ecological feedback, and the authority of farmers themselves.
Regenerative Skills is based on the pursuit of a regenerative life. A lifestyle centered on stewardship of the natural world, strong connections to community, and the daily habits that bring us closer to those goals. Each week learn actionable information from experts around the world that you can apply in your own life. Together we can regenerate our planet and our communities.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear-eyed look at the costs, patience and promise behind climate-resilient farming.
Climate-resilient farming comes through here as both an ecological practice and a financial wager. Rows of plum, hazelnut and apple trees are framed as working infrastructure: slowing heavy rain, reaching deeper groundwater in dry spells and shielding fields from hot-season…
Don Hall frames regeneration as a practical question of skills, care, and personal contribution.
Regenerative Skills uses Don Hall's experience to look at how people move beyond status quo routines and into a transition journey. The episode treats knowledge as only the beginning: ideas have to be tested against real lives, interests, backgrounds, skills, and available…
A grounded look at training, water harvesting, and small gardens becoming food, seeds, and surplus.
Regenerative Skills follows Jane Wegesa-Fraser's account of a food-growing project rooted in training, water harvesting, and small fenced gardens.
Appalachian food stories from Tennessee soil.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Oliver Gauthier interviews Don Hall about The Regeneration Handbook and Hall's 16 years in the Transition Towns movement.
Host Oliver Gauthier and co-host Alex Stinson introduce a new series on adapting regenerative solutions to resource-constrained contexts.
Dr.
Oliver Gauthier revisits a past interview with Meredith Leigh, author of The Ethical Meat Handbook, discussing the ethics and environmental impact of eating meat.
Sandra explains how renters can take ownership when a farm’s community fixes broken plumbing together.
This episode explores the disconnect between academic research and on-the-ground farming practices, highlighting how traditional knowledge has been replaced by inaccessible, industry-funded studies.
A panel discussion on transforming farm waste into fertility and value, featuring Aneta Mews from a biodynamic farm in Tuscany.
This episode explores the challenges and complexities of measuring regeneration in agriculture, moving beyond simple metrics and buzzwords.
Farmers in Iberia share their experiences recovering from and adapting to increasingly frequent storms and floods.
Oliver Gaucher introduces the 10th season of the Regenerative Skills podcast, emphasizing the need for farmers to lead the definition of regenerative agriculture and announcing a shift to deeper, more complex discussions.
Regenerative Skills host Oliver Gauthier convenes Beate, Sergio, and Howard to compare climate adaptation on farms in Germany, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
Oliver Gauthier interviews Don Hall about his new book 'The Regeneration Handbook' and the steps to transition to regenerative communities.
Oliver Gauthier introduces Season 9 of Regenerative Skills, previewing upcoming projects and a panel discussion on cutting-edge soil science and agronomy with Harriet Mella and James White.
Oliver Gauthier introduces an episode about regenerating a 1100-hectare farm in semi-arid Spain, featuring Silvia Quarta, after a sponsor message and personal update.