Important part of our mission is to raise awareness for sustainable and regenerative living practices and regenerative farming and spread the knowledge about the corresponding techniques and practices.
We are grateful for all the articles, interviews, videos and other material created by media workers to support us in this mission and help us make our voice heard.
PAN REPORT - Farming Beyond Pesticides: success stories from the field
October 2025
A new publication by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe and Friends of the Earth, showcasing farmers and municipalities across Europe who are proving that pesticide-free and nature-friendly farming is not only possible, but it works. Through real examples, the report highlights how agroecological, organic, and regenerative practices restore biodiversity, protect farmers’ health, and build resilient local food systems. Greece is proudly represented by Sheila Darmos, founder of The Southern Lights and Regenerative Farming Greece.
PODCAST THE PURPOSE POD - Enabling the future of sustainable agriculture
September 2025
It was a pleasure to connect with Richard Mullane on The Purpose Pod!
Richard accompanied us through a walk in our demonstration site in South Peloponnese where we spoke about our journey in regenerative farming and the vision for a vibrant and resilient rural Greece. Many thanks to Investing for Purpose for opening this platform to share impact-driven voices.
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Podcast with Koen Van Seijen
July 2025
Episode 376 Sheila Darmos - Why Greece is leading the regenerative agriculture movement and what the world can learn
It was a big pleasure to discuss with Koen the underlying values and structure that guide our work in Greece and how it connects to the ever-growing international movement of Regenerative Agriculture! We hope you enjoy it as well!
We had a great conversation with Fernando Lerner, bringing insights about our hollistic approach to build up the regenerative movement across the Greek landscapes and communities. We thank SAE Innova for holding the space to share our voice with their audience.
An introduction to LO - the Laconia Initiative! Together with a diverse set of local stakeholders, we are reimagining the future for Laconia as a bioregion. Supported by Ashoka, we have been identified as a Bioregional Weaving Lab. Our collective effort: to connect with each other and join forces onto a regenerative transition of the bioregion of Laconia.
In this article, Sheila Darmos, through her personal journey, introduces us to The Southern Lights, showing how the farm evolved from organic into an agroforestry hub that explores regenerative and prototyping solutions. She highlights the challenges we face in rural Greece and how we can overcome them through collaboration - both on a bioregional level and with farmers across Greece and Europe. This is a highly insightful article for anyone, from consumers to new farmers, who wants to learn more about our work and discover practical, on-the-ground solutions. Enjoy and share!
A great opportunity to discover more about our experimental agroforestry site!
Featured by the amazing Greek channel Istorima, we invite you to welcome natural processes into your habitat and to learn by observing it transform.
Our director, Sheila Darmos, shares here the history of our farm, the logic and values that we are guided by and the role regeneration pays in our livelihoods. Enjoy!
EFSYN BIO - 6 PAGE ARTICLE
December 2023
We thank Efsyn Bio for voicing our and supporting the growth of the regenerative movement across Greece. This 6-page article features our path from being home to a diverse experimental agroforestry site, all the way to supporting farms to transition their practices, through our initiative Regenerative Farming Greece (RFG). It showcases the benefits and principles of regenerative agriculture and key insights of our director Sheila Darmos throughout this rewarding process. Spread the inspiration!
ARTE TV 360° REPORTAGE PELOPONNESE: A PASSION FOR AGRICULTURE
March 2023
The Southern Lights has been featured in the thought-provoking documentary '360° Reportage Peloponnese: A Passion for Agriculture' by Arte. 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. Enjoy and Share!
PODCAST 112 CLIMATE TONE BY NEON AS PART OF THE WORLD WEATHER NETWORK
March 2023
On this podcast, Sheila Darmos had the pleasure of discussing with Professor Prodromos Zanis and Andrew Spyrou the ways in which various stakeholders are working to make the Mediterranean terrestrial biodiversity more resilient. Enjoy and share!
In the frameworks of an online webinar on olive farming practices organized by wikifarmers, we had the opportunity to share about our olive farming practices in our regenerative farm.
Panos, who is co-managing the land gives an insight into the importance of organic matter in the soil, water retention, biodiversity and crop yield, while Sheila and Giuseppe give a broader vision on the #RegenerativeFarmingSupportProgram and regenerative farming techniques.
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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.
Enjoy, share and support their work!
In the Omega 3 show of the Greek national TV channel ERT 3, we spoke live about The Regenerative Farming Support Program and The Food Forest Tour. If you understand Greek, check it out!
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!
Guest Speaker and facilitator at the European Permaculture Convergence
Sheila from The Southern Lights was a guest speaker at the economy day of the European Permaculture convergence, where she discussed the role and interconnections of the family business silver leaf for the non-profit activities of our organization The Southern Lights. At the same time she facilitated the day Farming with Nature, with guest speakers such as Simon from Permalab, Giuseppe from Regen and Dimitri from Mazi farm.
After registering for a small contribution, you can watch all the content of the convergence online whenever it suits you.
CitizenCentral on the EU initiatives about climate change and a bee friendly agriculture
In this podcast we contributed to the discussion about the EU citizens’ initiative Save bees and Farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment´
At minute 26 you hear our part ! Enjoy!
Sheila from our Team had the pleasure to speak at the inauguration ceremony for the coming Erasmus Plus program period about how the program effected our work at Southern Lights and the importance for youth of the Erasmus Plus program.
You can watch the speech clicking on the button above.
We had the pleasure to speak with Caroline Lafargue from Radio France Internationale about our work and in particular about our Regenerative Farming Support Program for their environmental show C'est pas du vent - RFI.
Aim of Caroline is to report on agroforestry and regenerative farming in Greece and we are happy to reach their huge audience from all over the world.
Bojan Brecelj visited us with him team and his sailing boat, during days with lots of planting, planning and preparations for our upcoming projects. The video that emerged is both beautiful and insightful to our philosophy. Enjoy and follow his work.
Thank you Bojan and team for this beautiful video.
Read about the importance of a sustainable way of living and why we use agroforestry as a farming model.
Thank you very much for your interview and the article!
A great article of "Eos wetenschap Trace" about our Agroforestry practices and the importance and relevance for the consumer role for the shift to regenerative farming practices.
Thank you for sharing the word and the great article!
With beautiful illustrations, the magazine 33% Das Waldmagazin dedicated an article on the food forests concept, its importance, benefits and how it works and an interview with us in their second edition.
Purchasable until September 2020 in train and plane book shops in Germany or on www.33prozentmagazin.de
Article about our North Tour that due to COVID didn´t happen, but still the projects we worked with, planted a food forest.
Special thanks to Vasia Panagopoulou for this article
We are honoured to be featured in the EDITION #1 of this Australian magazine.
Sowing Seeds is printed in Melbourne, Australia, on 100% post consumer recycled paper, that is both FSC certified and carbon neutral, using non-toxic vegetable based inks.
Special thanks to Sonia Bareiro and the whole team of the magazine for this article.
Richard accompanied us through a walk in our demonstration site in South Peloponnese where we spoke about our journey in regenerative farming and the vision for a vibrant and resilient rural Greece. Enjoy!
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture with Koen Van Seijen
It was a big pleasure to discuss with Koen the underlying values and structure that guide our work in Greece and how it connects to the ever-growing international movement of Regenerative Agriculture! We hope you enjoy it as well!
We had a great conversation with Fernando Lerner, bringing insights about our hollistic approach to build up the regenerative movement across the Greek landscapes and communities. We thank SAE Innova for holding the space to share our voice with their audience.
CitizenCentral on the EU initiatives about climate change and a bee friendly agriculture
In this podcast we contributed to the discussion about the EU citizens’ initiative Save bees and Farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment´
At minute 26 you hear our part ! Enjoy!
CitizenCentral on the EU initiatives about climate change and a bee friendly agriculture
In this podcast we contributed to the discussion about the EU citizens’ initiative Save bees and Farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment´
At minute 26 you hear our part ! Enjoy!
We had the pleasure to speak with Caroline Lafargue from Radio France Internationale about our work and in particular about our Regenerative Farming Support Program for their environmental show C'est pas du vent - RFI.
Aim of Caroline is to report on agroforestry and regenerative farming in Greece and we are happy to reach their huge audience from all over the world.
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ARTE tv 360° Reportage Peloponnese: A Passion for Agriculture
The Southern Lights has been featured in the thought-provoking documentary '360° Reportage Peloponnese: A Passion for Agriculture' by Arte. 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.
ERT 3 Greek national TV on the Regenerative Farming Support Program and the Food Forest Tour
In the Omega 3 show of the Greek national TV channel ERT 3, we spoke live about The Regenerative Farming Support Program and The Food Forest Tour. If you understand Greek, check it out!
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!
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Farming Beyond Pesticides: Success stories from the field
October 2025
A new publication by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and Friends of the Earth Europe, showcasing farmers and municipalities across Europe who are proving that pesticide-free and nature-friendly farming is not only possible, but it works. Through real examples, the report highlights how agroecological, organic, and regenerative practices restore biodiversity, protect farmers’ health, and build resilient local food systems. Greece is proudly represented by Sheila Darmos, founder of The Southern Lights and Regenerative Farming Greece.
Read about the importance of a sustainable way of living and why we use agroforestry as a farming model.
Thank you very much for your interview and the article!
