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This summer, our colleague Jane met with families and community members at Katikit School in Baringo County (Rift Valley), Kenya, as we continued developing plans for a regenerative agriculture and education project centered around the school. With significant coordination and support from So They Can, the faculty and staff at Katikit School, and members of the surrounding community, roughly 40 to 50 people came together for a community forum, about three quarters of them wom

There are some organizations you encounter that change the way you think about what is possible, and for me, Las Cañadas has been one of those places for more than a decade. Located in the cloud forests outside Huatusco, Veracruz, Las Cañadas has spent more than thirty years experimenting with what it actually means to live within the ecological limits of a place while building a strong, productive, and increasingly autonomous community. What began on a degraded cattle ranch

This month, I was invited to advise on agricultural and food sovereignty projects being considered by the newly forming Foundation to Be Good and Do Good. One of the first projects brought into the conversation was in Baringo County, Kenya, where the nonprofit So They Can works with dozens of government schools and surrounding communities across Kenya and Tanzania. For more than a decade So They Can has done an incredible job creating bright futures for school children throug

In the summer of 2026, another group of students left San Antonio for Veracruz as part of the CREA study abroad program. What followed was the most developed and successful iteration of the program to date, and the culmination of relationships, lessons, and experiences that have been growing over the past three years. Over the course of the program, students moved through some of Veracruz's extraordinarily diverse cultural and ecological landscapes, learning directly from far

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 cali

For years, the Texas Hill Country has been a focus for Terra Advocati and Bryan Hummel of Water Ranching. While much of our work has taken us across regions and borders building partnerships, capacity, and momentum, the long term vision has always been clear. Bring that experience home and apply it where it is needed most. Now, with a growing network of collaborators and a shared sense of purpose, we are turning our attention fully to watershed regeneration in the Texas Hill

Our latest CREA visit took us west of San Antonio into the Texas Hill Country, where fellows spent the day at Sovereignty Ranch. Nestled across roughly 300 acres, the ranch is a dynamic, working landscape that brings together livestock, orchards, greenhouses, and a vibrant farm to table operation. We were welcomed by Mollie and Ryland Engelhart, the brother and sister team stewarding the ranch. From the outset, the conversation grounded us in the realities of the moment. In t