There are gatherings that inform you, and then there are gatherings that change you. The American Regeneration Summit in Bandera, Texas was unmistakably the latter. Terra Advocati's Bryan Hummel and friend of TA David Casillas joined me, as we gathered in the middle of nowhere in the Hill Country, not quite sure what to expect, and left with a renewed sense of just how wide and deep the regenerative movement has grown. What made this conference different was not just the caliber of the...

J. David Bamberger was an inspiration to me, to us, to our contributors and allies across the Texas Hill Country, and to people far beyond it. His work did not just change a place. It changed how many of us understand what land can become when it is given time, patience, and respect. Bamberger showed the world that degraded land is not a lost cause, but an opportunity. He showed that hydrological systems have value, that water remembers how to move through a landscape, and that if you give it...

The Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve is one of Mexico’s most extraordinary natural treasures. Rising from lowland tropical forests to peaks above three thousand meters, the Sierra Gorda is a land of dramatic contrasts. Eastern slopes receive abundant rainfall, nurturing cloud forests where bromeliads and mosses shimmer with mist. Western slopes lie in rain shadow, giving way to agave, cactus, and thorn scrub. Between these extremes, pine-oak forests and semi-deciduous woodlands knit together a...