is a non-profit organization based in the South of Peloponnese in Greece in a beautiful agroforestry farm. Our mission is to spread knowledge, techniques and the mindset for regenerative practices in all domains of human activity. Through workshops, networking and building active and alive examples of regenerative practices in close collaboration with other organizations, public entities and ecological enterprises.
pilot farms, farmer's networks and an educational video library
With this program, we set ourself the goal to enable and support the transition of farming in Greece into a regenerative one, by sharing the knowledge about agroforestry, its possibilities for restoring soil, plant and animal health, thus regenerating our ecosystems and building resilience facing climate change.
With this project, we aim to co-shape thriving livelihoods in our Bioregion of Laconia as responsible citizens grounded in place and its people.
The initiative is stewarded by a group of people from various organisations from the region, mostly living there, that embarked on a process of using their own capacities in order to co-create, learn from each other and establish an equitable, sustainable, regenerative reality in Laconia- for its nature and its people.
As the network evolves into hosting regional hubs, its goal is to unite and support people in Greece and beyond, who are actively contributing to a change toward regenerative practices in their local contexts. Trust is built through regular in-person meetings, at the same time that connections are strengthened, needs are identified and matched, and resources are exchanged.
Ensuring plants survive is the most demanding part of planting forests. There needs to be engaged actors in the follow-up and adequate resources.
To tackle that challenge we engage with diverse local agents and directly support them to transform their fields into agroforestry plots. Embedded in different climatic conditions, these offer us great insights into the regions challenges and opportunities for agroforestry.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2025 | Upcoming opportunities and projects to go learn abroad
There are many opportunities to learn through Erasmus+ courses in places like ours, abroad.
We are happy to support people that live in Greece to travel and participate in these programs. Check them out and see how you can apply.
Upcoming opportunities are published when partners launch new calls. Projects usually run between March and October and calls can be published up to 1.5months in advance.
A 3-DAY TRAINING ON SOIL AND FERTILITY | November 2025
Training event
This training designed for farmers and agronomists will be hosted at The Southern Lights farm, that has been implementing regenerative practices since 2016.
The focus of this packed and practical training is on improving farm productivity and fertility through specific practices that take advantage form natural processes on site.
The trainer, Giuseppe Sannicandro, is an italian farmer, internationally recognized by his teachings across the Mediterranean region.
October 5th is a great day to be at the Vegan Life Festival in Athens!
Just ask at the info booth where you can find the eco-projects. This meet & greet is an informal chance to connect, share stories and get to know some of those who are interested or invovled in the eco project world.
This 14-day training activity, hosted in our welcoming food forest in the South Peloponnese, aimed to further our impact at the bioregional level, by bringing together the right stakeholders and having an hollistic approach.
Guided by internationally recognized trainers, Viliana Dzhartnova, Lon Seefeld and Pieter Ploeg, 30 youth workers from 6 different countries broadened their knowledge, skills and attitudes to approaches and practical tools to lead multi-stakeholder collaborative actions and tackle complex systems, thus increasing the impact and inclusivity of their current work, in line with the regeneration of territories.
360° Reportage Peloponnese: A Passion for Agriculture
Through the lens of the talented director Marie Daguenel, the film highlights the power of regenerative agriculture practices in the Peloponnese and how this movement is scaling up.
"Rizes" show mega tv
"Rizes" show with Thanasis Efthimiadis Episode "Earth" 11 aired in mega tv, by whiteroom filmproduction
BBC SELECT : HISTORY OF MOTHER EARTH: GAIA UNCOVERED (ONLY CANADA AND USA FOR NOW)
In this documentary about Gaia and our current relationship with the earth, includes a conversation between Bettany Hughes and Sheila from The Southern Lights. Enjoy watching if you live in North America, otherwise you ll have to wait until it gets released in Europe. Stay tuned!
From Monoculture to a regenerative farm
The transformation - an explanatory video from Critical Concrete
Samuel Kalika from Critical Concrete in Portugal with whom we work together on many different topics, crosspollinating knowledge and transferring it from natural building to agroforestry, came to see us in Greece during our tour, to share with his audience, how it looks in practice if you convert a monoculture into a regenerative farm.
The Food Forest Tour is a series of events in community places and organizations all over Greece that share our mission. In this events, we share knowledge on how to grow food in abundance and in harmony with nature, mimicking a natural forest system, and in which we actually plant a food forest in the hosting organization.
A unity project
Also the tour has as a mission to unify with people and projects from all over Greece and abroad. To strengthen the network of people and projects that actively contribute to building a better today and tomorrow, that are not afraid to seek new ways and have a bold vision for the future and that put their words to action!
To eco-projects, community spaces, to the city, kindergardens, schools, islands, villages
A food forest is a complex system with high biodiversity, comprised of trees and plants that provide food - fruits, nuts, edible leaves, flowers, roots.
But it does not only provide food. Being a forest on a small scale, it gives the opportunity for people, of all ages, to reconnect with nature, to learn how their food grows, to have a piece of paradise in their backyard, their school, their neighborhood, in the citiy’s main square, their workplace.
A forest is the perfect example for diversity and harmony, collaboration and interdependence.
We as humanity can learn a great deal from interacting and observing a forest.
That's why our mission is to bring them everywhere.
We run an agroforestry demonstration site, modeling dozens of practical, personal and community-scale solutions to common challenges around the regeneration of soil, water, food production, and more effective ways to self-govern and manage the economy, using permaculture as our guiding design approach.
By organizing learning experiences for people from the local area and abroad. Through workshops, European youth mobility projects, volunteering, on-site practical application and communication we create hubs for people to share and discover ways of deepening their understanding of regenerative living.
By co-initiating the REGEN network: a collaboration platform to coalesce eco-projects around Greece and abroad. Our organization has launched interactions, online and in-person, aiming to render visible, connect and support different people and groups involved in guiding their own communities to an ecologically regenerative, economically viable & socially just future.
About regenerative practices and non-regenerative ones, by online and offline communication. We write articles, create social media content and give talks, interviews and presentations in events, and festivals with the aim of informing people about the enormous potential that agriculture has to hurt and to heal our natural and social systems.
A small piece of paradise.
Near the ocean.
A journey
begins.
About loaded particles.
People.
Coming together
with the will
to change
everything.
This is our journey.
Have you seen what happens in the Sky, when loaded particles created by the earth and the sun collide?
A miraculous light spectacle appears up in the sky near the poles of the earth.
Dancing lights. To the music of the universe.
This spectacle can not be seen from where we are. But it’s what happens when humans likewise loaded, with passion and curiosity, come together.
The miracle begins.
Aurora
Let us come together. Let us listen to each other. Learn from each other. Inspire each other. Empower each other. Let's create together. Resilient networks. Self-reliant networks. Self-sufficient. Let us create places of abundance. Forests of fruits and food for thoughts. And let us amaze each other. Create lights that shine far beyond the sky. Let us love each other. Ourselves. Without conditions.
Let us find peace and let us listen inside us. Come to us. And see, it was there all along.
The beauty and the strength.
To change everything.
bright shining lights all over the world
THE REGEN NETWORK
It´s time to unite
To unite and support people in Greece and beyond that are actively contributing to a change towards regenerative practices, we co-initiated the REGEN Network Greece together with Mazi farm.
Through regular meetings, we build trust among each other which we believe is the foundation of all successful collaboration.
