What happens when a family leaves the city behind to restore 562 hectares of degraded land using nothing but regenerative agriculture, resilience, and relentless creativity?

In this unmissable episode, we take you inside Terramay, a pioneering farm in southern Portugal where Anna and David de Brito, along with livestock manager Elias Gellweiler, are transforming exhausted soils into abundant ecosystems. From soil-free hillsides turned market gardens to chickens making compost at speed, this is regenerative agriculture at its most ambitious and inspiring. You’ll hear how agroforestry, holistic grazing, and circular food systems come together to form a living, breathing model for farming in the age of climate crisis.

🎧 Whether you’re a farmer, food systems thinker, or simply curious about how to grow hope in damaged landscapes, this episode is essential listening.

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🧠 What You’ll Learn:

• How Terramay produces over 85 tons of vegetables on rocky land with zero external inputs

• Why composting with chickens can radically speed up fertility cycles

• What it takes to run a restaurant where 90% of the food is grown on-site

• How rotational grazing builds resilience and nutrient density

• Why regenerative farming is also a powerful tool for rebuilding rural communities

🌍 For listeners in:

• Sustainable food & farming

• Organic and biodynamic agriculture

• Ecological design and permaculture

• Climate adaptation and land use policy

• Circular economy and rural innovation
  

Hit play and discover how a piece of land on the edge of Portugal is becoming a blueprint for the regenerative future we need.

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health & biodiversity.

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Useful links:

TERRAMAY - https://www.terramay.com/

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What if the most chemically intensive, high-density farms - systems many see as the enemy of regenerative agriculture - could actually become climate champions?

In this episode of the Deep Seed Podcast, we sit down with Dimitri Tsitos, co-founder of AgroSystemic, to explore how Mediterranean super-intensive olive, almond, and citrus orchards can regenerate degraded soils, restore biodiversity, boost resilience, and improve long-term farm profitability - all without sacrificing yield.

Dimitri shares hard-won insights from years of trial, failure, and success in transitioning conventional, input-heavy orchards into regenerative, climate-smart systems. Whether you’re a farmer, agronomist, orchard manager, sustainability consultant, investor, policymaker, or simply passionate about the future of food and climate solutions, this conversation offers a roadmap you won’t find anywhere else.

🎧 By the end of this episode, you’ll understand why even the most intensive systems may have no choice but to go regenerative and how small, targeted changes in soil and plant management can transform productivity, resilience, and ecosystem health.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode

🌳 How super-intensive Mediterranean orchards (2000+ trees per hectare) can transition to regenerative models

🌳 Practical cover crop strategies for olive oil, almond, and citrus production

🌳 Compost, mulching, and biomass management for soil regeneration

🌳 How to balance productivity, profitability, and resilience under climate pressure

🌳 The economics of regenerative transitions: cutting input costs while boosting long-term performance

🌳 How to use biodiversity strips, hedgerows, and landscape design to deliver agronomic services

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Who Should Listen

✅ Olive, almond, and citrus growers

✅ Conventional farmers curious about regenerative agriculture

✅ Agronomists, soil scientists, and orchard advisors

✅ Agricultural investors and sustainability consultants

✅ Policymakers shaping the future of climate-resilient agriculture

✅ Anyone passionate about regenerative systems, biodiversity restoration, and nature-based solutions

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health & biodiversity.

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Useful links:

• Agrosystemic - https://www.agrosystemic.com/

• Dimitri Tsitos - Linkedin

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What if your olive oil could fight disease, your soil could store water like a sponge, and your sheep could restore biodiversity?

This episode takes you to the heart of Portugal’s Monte Silveira farm, where cutting-edge science meets ancient ecosystems,... and the results are mind-blowing! Join us as we sit down with Diogo Pinho, the farm’s Research Manager, to uncover the data-driven secrets behind one of Europe’s most innovative regenerative farms.

From boosting soil organic matter by astonishing numbers, to producing high-polyphenol olive oil that’s great for your heart, to showing that regenerative grazing can actually outperform conventional almond plantations - this conversation is packed with insight, hope, and practical inspiration for anyone interested in the future of farming.

Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, farmer, or foodie, this is one episode you do not want to miss.

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🧪 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why soil organic matter is the cornerstone of regenerative systems -> and how Monte Silveira doubled it.

• How rotational sheep grazing helps restore plant diversity and build microbial life underground.

• The surprising science behind polyphenols in olive oil and how farming methods influence their levels.

• How regenerative practices can reduce costs and outperform conventional models (with real data).

• What it means to design climate-resilient farms in Mediterranean ecosystems under pressure.

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🎙️ About the Guest:

Diogo Pinho is the Research Manager at Monte Silveira Farm in southern Portugal, where he leads 16 research projects focused on linking profitability with ecosystem regeneration. With a background in microbiology, he’s bridging the gap between scientific research and real-world farming, and proving that regeneration can work at scale!

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This podcast was produced in partnership with Soil Capital, a company that supports #regenerativeagriculture by financially rewarding farmers who improve soil health.

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Useful links:

• Monte SIlveira - https://www.montesilveira.com/

• Instagram: @deep_seed_podcast

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deep-seed

• Email - raphael@deepseed.eu

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