Our first Sovereign AMA is officially in the books... and it’s only the beginning. Big thanks to Greg German (aka BORN Sovereign) for kicking this off with me. Proper good energy, sharp conversation. Next one: Tuesday at 5pm MST / 7pm EST. Come join us to talk all things Sovereign, from ancestral food to becoming fully human, with our Grow community member Greg and vendor, BORN Sovereign.

Have taught myself to make and use sour dough I gotta tell ya I had no idea my friend giving me this to start would turn out to be my passion I now bake almost daily any questions on how to get started or want some recipes that I’ve put together let me know

Neil and Jonathan jumped on an AMA to talk about the part of “impact” everyone loves to tweet about… until you ask the one annoying question: How do you verify it? Jonathan came in with the Merge Impact lens (and yes, he’s also part of the Grow community), and together we got into the actual plumbing behind credible outcomes: - LandNFTsWhat they are, what they represent, and the step-by-step process to turn “a piece of land” into a verifiable unit of value and stewardship. - GISBoundaries, baselines, leakage, permanence. The unsexy stuff — and the exact stuff that keeps bad data from becoming bad money. - Spectral / spectrometryHow you read change at scale, repeatedly, without turning every project into a PhD thesis or a forever-audit. - BiodiversityMoving beyond vibes into proxies and indicators that markets can actually trust. - Data oraclesThe bridge between “we measured it” and “anyone can verify it” — clean enough for integrity, practical enough for adoption. If biodiversity markets ever sounded brilliant right up until someone asked “prove it”, that was the point of this AMA. Missed it? Drop your questions below — especially the awkward ones.

https://open.substack.com/pub/madagriculture/p/mapping-the-new-dietary-guidelines?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

A terrific article on Why We Need Systems Thinking, Not Practice Debates A critical examination of why the glyphosate controversy reveals the limits of practice-based regenerative agriculture, and what conditions we need to create genuine system transformation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/glyphosate-problem-regenerative-agriculture-caroline-grindrod-eqble