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Dear friends, collaborators & co-creators of regenerative futures, Reflecting on 2025, we are filled with deep gratitude. Gratitude for the journey, for the communities that walk with us, and for the living Earth that continually teaches, challenges, and inspires us. Be The Earth is in her 6th cycle around the sun, and as a learning and experimental organisation has continued to deepen its regenerative practices towards a more eco-centric economy. While 2024 focused on govern

Pooven Moodley is a Be The Earth Fellow, international human rights lawyer and social justice activist from South Africa. When I was first connected with the Be The Earth Foundation, I pondered on the question ‘What is it like to Be The Earth?’ I share here a few reflections as my journey continues to unfold and my understanding about the connection of the elements. I will choose a point in time to start this reflection. Last Friday the Constitutional Court of South Africa

We are living through a crisis of disconnection - from nature, community, and the deeper meaning that makes life whole. By restoring local economies and cultures, we regenerate the Earth and ourselves. Be The Earth is proud to support Local Futures who offer a path home. Article written by Christian Stalberg, as published here. Who decides what happens to your community? Who decides whether farmland becomes subdivisions? Whether forests are logged or protected? Whether your d

Regenerative work requires regenerative people. In 2025, Be The Earth created a £50k Subsidy Pot and opened the land at 42 Acres to ten groups from our community — farmers, activists, healers, and organisers — not as a reward, but as replenishment. Here's one story from that year — of a community of changemakers who came together in ancient woodland to rest, dream, and remember what they were building toward. What happens when we collectively dream? By Benedicta Asamoah-Russe

In 2025, Be The Earth gave an unrestricted grant to Grounded's Regen Ag Facility — in the spirit of our deepening roots in South Africa, and our conviction that food and farming can unlock change. Most of the world's poor are farmers. And most of the world's farmers are poor. It is a cycle that conventional development approaches have repeatedly failed to break — because they target isolated symptoms rather than the system itself. Grounded was founded on a different convictio

An old oak tree is a core member of our emerging community at the Be Hive in the Cape Winelands, South Africa. Rooted in the foothills of an ancient towering mountain, the oak is home to a bee hive and as of last week, a pair of Cape Eagle owls. As the humans who share this space, there might be no more than their vastly intelligent guidance that we need as we learn to navigate pathways of being, belonging and service to a more-than-human world. Their secrets are hidden in pl

Megan Tatum talks to Mambud Samai, the pioneering founder of a farming programme for amputees that is rooted in sustainable growing. As published by Wicked Leeds, 24 June 2026. February 2026 Farming on Crutches Cohort, Sierra Leone, Supported by Be The Earth Mustapha Bockarie is one of the estimated 30,000 people that lost a limb during Sierra Leone’s brutal decade-long civil war. His arm was amputated after being struck by a stray bullet and a “heartbroken” Bockarie said he

This summer 2026, in partnership with YOAK, Be The Earth launches their pilot programme for Founders, Shared Ground. Two spaces remain. Sometimes what's most needed isn't more advice. It's space. Space to think clearly. To connect honestly. To make decisions that feel truly aligned with what matters most. That's the intention behind Shared Ground - a small, carefully held programme for founders and leaders of purpose-driven organisations, created by Be The Earth in partnershi

Written by our Aura Midwives: Amogelang Pila Ditlhale, Keamo Rakgoadi, Piwo Magqira, Quentan Marule, Vuyokazi Mnyengeza Images captured by Goitseone Mokhonto Two days before International Women’s Day, something quietly powerful unfolded in a village near Orpen Gate in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga. It did not begin with a grand announcement. It began, as many regenerative movements do, with relationship. A call between women. A remembering. A shared yes. Through the initiative Sekwan