Blog Post

Let's get this thing done

Sheila Cooke • Jul 10, 2020

The higher service to which we are all being called.

Roger Dixon-Spain inspired with these words...

Our past experience has not made us the way we are. It has made us believe we are the way we are. In other words, we can always change and decide to become the people that we'd love to be, to discard the beliefs we were gifted at birth for the knowings that come from our own life experience. We might then know that with courage, and our own beliefs that we can truly commit to stepping out purposefully in the direction of our dreams.  

Buckminster Fuller said, 'In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the existing problematic model, you create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called.'

I think we are in the right place, at the right time, with the right information, with the right people. We just need to step forward and get this thing done. 


Image of person reading the book
by Marianne Landzettel 10 Feb, 2024
The first Organic Farm Management Handbook was published in 1994. It aimed ‘to provide best possible estimates for the physical and financial performance of organic crop and livestock enterprises’. In October 2023, the 12th edition was released and Marianne Landzettel reviewed it for us.
by Sheila Cooke 08 Feb, 2024
The Nest is an incubator for new entrant, start-up, scaling or transitioning regenerative and agroecologically informed farmers, growers and landstewards. Farmer's Footprint UK recognises the need for quality storytelling, content development, marketing and branding to ensure viable and regenerative businesses, and are offering their services for no cost as part of this programme.
The team discusses positioning and the direction in which to move the cattle
by Marianne Landzettel 12 Jan, 2024
At the end of October, Pollardine Farm in Shropshire hosted the 3LM one day Low Stress Livestock Handling course, conducted by Miriam Parker, a livestock behaviourist and independent consultant. Parker transferred her equine skills to cattle and worked with herders across the world. Her work is influenced by her friend, US animal behaviourist Temple Grandin.
by Sheila Cooke 13 Sept, 2023
Christopher & Sheila Cooke will be speaking at Fernhill Farm's Open Day.
by Sheila Cooke 04 Sept, 2023
Your donation will help turn this Ukrainian research station into a Holistic Management Learning Site.
22 Aug, 2023
In order to regenerate soils, first we need to regenerate our minds.
by Sheila Cooke 16 Aug, 2023
Origami seed saving packets made from newspaper.
by Sheila Cooke 16 Jul, 2023
I express sincere gratitude to Allan Savory and George Monbiot for your courage and stamina to debate in public the urgent issues of our day. You stimulated our thinking, and this gives me hope. – Sheila Cooke
by Sheila Cooke 03 Jun, 2023
Join us in a key debate on this controversial topic between a founder and leading proponent of Holistic Management (Allan Savory) and a prominent critic (George Monbiot). The event will be chaired by Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford. Entry to this event is free, but please book in advance.
by Sheila Cooke 26 May, 2023
Webinar with Clive Bright, farmer in County Sligo, Ireland
More posts
Share by: