The Story Behind EDEN Partners

The Road to Regenerating People & Planet

Each person’s journey is unique. 

This story…is about the world we live in & finding purpose, partnerships & prosperity

The duality of the universe reflected in my life…

the first half of childhood spent in Southern California & Panama…

the second half.. as a third culture kid growing up in International Schools…while witnessing Poland grow out of the darkness of Communism.

Before reaching adulthood, the witness to the inequality of knowledge & economic opportunities..

Rich & poor, the have & have-nots, light & dark.

However, if you can take a step back, ask yourself what is a life worth living, follow your passions & set yourself on a larger than life positive mission, one can find true fulfillment…

By ultimately finding your passions, purpose, partnerships & prosperity.

Unfortunately, most will never rise above this duality of the universe we exist in.

However, this is a story of the journey of taking risks, finding life’s purpose in regenerating people, planet & agriculture.

A Broke Bootstrapping Entrepreneur

Since returning back from New York & working in high-frequency trading (witnessing the Flash Crash)…there was an underlying frustration & lack purpose

For years, I had been struggling as a broke bootstrapping entrepreneur, trying to get rich in Poland.

Still it could be worse.

Instead of 80 hour work weeks in front of screen in the office, while working on “market-neutral volatility arbitrage”, it was cheap party weekends in Warsaw & Berlin, the ideal life ….I was enjoying life…or so I thought. 

Not knowing what business to start, I created Social Karma – a digital marketing agency,  eventually learning how to create online sales funnels, while guaranteeing 300% return on ad spend.

Once you learn how to do online marketing & sales, you can create any business want.

Find Your Passions

Finally, in 2016 there was an awakening.

During this year, I created Steak Club, an online butcher delivery of 100% grass-fed, dry-aged beef. 

Experiencing the best beef Europe has to offer (Poland is the 2nd largest exporter of beef in the EU) & organizing barbecues (people), I soon rediscovered two passions….

The love of food & people.

As luck would have it, one of the original business partners in Steak Club, was the first person to introduce me to the concept of “permaculture”.

Like the majority of the population, my idea of farming were a patchwork of monocultures, chemicals and mind-numbingly going back and forth in the seat of a tractor all day.

Permaculture though…sought to work with nature, stacking functions, trees, water, animals & cropping systems…the result, mimicking nature & recreating EDEN.

I was immediately hooked.

The cognitive dissonance of chasing after wealth, while magazines, newspaper articles, & the internet were awash with stories of a society destroying itself, plowing & “nuking” the topsoil with chemicals.

Top soil, which all life on Earth & civilizations depend on.

Farming being accused of being the main culprit.

With Permaculture however, what was not to love?

This was not the farming we all think of, monotonous monocultures…but the first sign of hope, and a possible solution to the world’s challenges.

However, no journey is straight foward.

It would still take a couple of years, still ignoring the problem’s our society faced, still ignoring the internal conflict nagging inside me…afraid to change…and continuing to believe Wealth is directly correlated to success & happiness.

Being an entrepreneur comes with risks & sure enough my attention was consumed by a second insolvency…

this time caused by a business partners divorce…

bankrupting a wildly successful direct marketing business (60% margins, 1 million in revenue year 1) 

& nearly losing Steak Club…

all during the Summer of 2016.

It was time for a reset.

Unfortunately, I was oddly financially broke…while my best friend was the 52nd richest person in Poland…

Perhaps it’s my positivity or karma…but instead of wallowing in sorrow, my best friend paid for an all-expenses trip to Peru, that would change my life.

Ayahuasca, Deprogramming & Purpose

While in Peru…it dawned on me (with ancient help)…the purpose of life was not to chase money…but to make the world a better place.

When you die, what truly matters?

The wealth you’ve accumulated?

Or beautiful relationships, knowing you made a positive impact & enjoyed a fulfilling life?

So…how to fix society? 

If society is a pyramid, from bottom to top, all civilizations are stacked upon..

• Agriculture
• Manufacturing
• Services 

Already owning an online butcher, the answer was obvious.

Let’s fix agriculture.

This experience also left me with three key lessons:
1. If you have one life, you might as well be positive
2. Balance is the key to a long fulfilling life
3. Do What You Say

Returning back to Poland after 6 weeks, I was forever changed.

However, it would still take 2 more years.

Continuing to chase money…

Failing to align my heart & mind, the universe at the end of 2018, then served  third insolvency….

Walking Away from Rome

At the start of 2019, with no family, no kids, no employees, nor money to pay rent…the universe had made it’s point…it was time to embark on the journey of changing agriculture for the better

So began a 4 years as a broke nomad…and the start of a journey to fix our broken agricultural system.

Living in the Countryside

First step…move to the countryside…and learn to work with nature.

Having lived in the city until the age of 33, the move seemed daunting.

However, within the first month, I discovered my ideal day.

Routine was the key…

• 5 a.m. wake-ups, start the fire
• 6 a.m. put coals & brisket into the smoker
• 2 hours of computer work
• Spend the next 9 hours outside working on projects & with nature
• Finish the day with a brisket & a swim in a pond
• Repeat & Rinse

Top that with a keto diet, intermittent fasting for increased energy, and being around nature… life had never felt better!

For 3 months, it was figuring out how to run an educational farm, create weekend experiences, entertaining groups of people, group physical projects (karma yoga), barbecues & parties in the forest.

Learning by doing is the new mantra…tractors, chainsaws, shoveling & working with nature…the first project was a resounding success.

A perfect example, of group work & creating EDEN together.

Creating a Mandala Kitchen Garden, it was amazing to see what you can grow with sand for soil + 60 tons of horse manure, sunlight & water.

Before

After

What was the lesson here?

When you learn to working with nature, you will understand that nature is total abundance.

The fear & artificial scarcity of an urbanized society could be no further from the true nature of our planet…

Traveling…Monocultures…Rich vs. Poor

As the Spring time was coming to a close…with no plans & still no money, the universe provided more abundance.

Open invitations for summer holidays, all expenses paid, 10 different countries over 6 months.

Was this coincidence? Or was the universe playing tricks on me?

What I witnessed over the Summer of 2019, astounded me…Monocultures everywhere.

Reading through Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, this enabled me to observe the world with a new lense:

1. The world is full of amazing people…but the disparity of wealth between countries & within countries is shocking
2. Western Agricultural practices of monocultures & chemicals are now global
3. Farmer’s are the last people you will convince to change
4. Everyone is in competition, with little to no cooperation
5. There are too far few examples of profitable “permaculture” farms

On this last point, I would mention there is hope.

One of the best examples of Regenerative Agriculture is a place called Krameterhof (which we visited in September 2019). 

80ha, located in the high Alps near Rammingstein, Austria...it is a sight to behold.

Water capture ponds, chickens, pigs, cattle…terraced fields…the pictures speak for themselves:

Coming back from New Years in Costa Rica, as the COVID Pandemic hit & 2020 began, a solution to reform agriculture was continuously taking shape.

What was needed to reform agriculture?

1. Top-down Change:
To work with governments & corporations (we live in an age of oligopolies), to convert land in mass to regenerative practices.

2. Bottom-up Change:
To create a network of educational farms (Environmental Development Education Network), to create a new  generation of farmers & entrepreneurs, in order to decentralized agriculture back to a farm-to-table system.

How to fund this? Not yet sure. 

Beyond Permaculture

Fortunately for me, the pandemic was great for business. 

Having an online food business (Steak Club), the year was spent traveling freely, hosting barbecues in the countryside (lockdowns be damned!), working on gardens, traveling & continuing to grow a network of people & solutions…

but there were a couple of problems with Permaculture.

What kind of problems? 

As an entrepreneur…no one was able to show me a business model with a working spreadsheet!

As the Fall of 2020 approached, it was obvious, more research was needed…permaculture was turning out to be “dogma” (SWALES EVERYWHERE), with no real answers on how to profitably regenerate land at large scale.

Now….working on the fringe of society…means you meet other thought leaders with fringe ideas.

Thus, while looking for a farm outside of Warsaw to start an educational farm…I met the infamous Dr. Svensson, holistic doctor & quantum medicine expert.

A Master Class in Holistic Health

Most people don’t know it, but they have what is called metabolic syndrome.

An overload of carbohydrates & omega-6 leads to leaky gut, leading to inflammation, then to auto-immune disease, eventually cancer and you know the rest..

Luckily, Dr. Svenesson as an entrepreneur, owned what is called a Quantum Diagnostics Stick.

Witnessing this technology for the first time, it was hard for me to register what was happening.

My box of beliefs required adjustment.

This was to be the first in a new found ability to discover Disruptive Solutions…

Then there was my diagnosis…

The diagnostics took about 1 hour. 

As a “relatively healthy”, 33 year old male, who went to the gym 4 times a week, and now 2h/day of farm work…

• 3 holes in my stomach lining
• Sugar Eating Bacteria leading to Stomach Ulcers then Stomach Cancer
• Cadmium Poisoning (NPK fertilizers)
• Damaged Adrenal Glands
• Start of Osteoporosis 
• Early Indicators of Arterial sclerosis

The second thing I learned (or found), was finally finding business model, spreadsheets & framework for Regenerative Farming!

Richard Perkin’s excellent book, The Regenerative Agriculture Book, had everything needed to start a farm (including spreadsheets), not just permaculture, but a multitude of methods, including something called Keyline Design.

The third discovery over the winter of 2019-2020…after searching for 2 years….I finally finding the missing knowledge I had been searching for!

A farm planning course based on keyline design or regenerative agriculture at scale. 

A Year as a Farmer

As 2021 came around (now after 2 years of nomading), I refused to return to the city.

Steak Club could now be managed fully-remote, and now having until the Fall to start the Regrarians Keyline Design Course,  I decided it was time to move to Western Poland, in the least populated county in the country.

The goal?

To get hands on experience, and truly understand the issues farmers were facing in the countryside…

What did I find?

The countryside is just as broken as the cities. 

Unhealthy people (I now understand the root cause of 95% of modern illnesses are Western Diets), unhappy/depressed farmers, mismanagement of forests (thank you @Ikea), and extreme droughts…in Poland!

As Fall came around and the Northern European winter set in, I geared up for the next adventure.

It was time to return to California, my home state…to get a first hand look at the problems there.

What was the goal of this trip?

1. Completing the Regrarians Course -> The missing puzzle piece of knowledge to design large farms
2. Building a network in California → putting my networking skills to the test & begin integrating the European Network with a US network

Really, there shouldn’t have been any surprises, but what I witnessed…was a civilization crumbling before my eyes.

The obesity epidemic, homeless people on the streets, urban sprawl as far as the eye could see, crumbling infrastructure, droughts & ironically…floods! 

However, it was the exact same problems in one of the wealthiest places on Earth as the rest of the world:

1. The disparity of wealth between countries & within countries is shocking
2. Western Agricultural practices of monocultures & chemicals are now global
3. Practically, no examples of profitable “permaculture” farms

To top things off…Steak Club underwent another crisis, meaning before I even landed, my only source of passive income was cut off in one of the most expensive places on earth, Los Angeles.

Luckily, now after 3 years of nomading, my knowledge of holistic health, and moving to a farm, I managed to thrive on $74 a month.

How?

By going to Latino stores, & eating beef liver, flank steak, eggs & butter.

With a strict diet, isolated but with internet, in under 2 months the health effects were profound.

12 hours days, no brain fog, tanned & achieving an 8-pack after 6 weeks.

We only grow when put in uncomfortable environments!

Nearly finding myself homeless during the Christmas of 2021-2022, only on Dec. 23, did I make it to Marquez Ranch…

and in the process met a “new family.”

That winter, we went about fixing up the ranch, gaining first-hand experience, while I finished the Regrarians Course.

This trip was risky, but well worth it.

The knowledge acquired, network built, facing difficult circumstances & observing the extremes of capitalism.  

A smooth sea, does not make a skilled sailor…

Destination “Calabrifornia”

Returning to Europe during the Spring of 2022 (and again nearly losing Steak Club), the world would have to wait….this year was about fixing the beef business.

By this time, after 4 years of nomading, the world had been through a pandemic, demonstrating the fragility of the global supply networks, and there was now the war in Ukraine….

As the end of 2022 approached…it was time again to move to a warmer spot for the winter.

This time to Calabria, Italy…and finally begin working on a new network to regenerate agriculture…people & planet.

With friends, a community, a place with amazing weather, great food & friendly people…the puzzle pieces to the master plan began to take shape:

• KNOWLEDGE/EXPERTS
• DISRUPTIVE, LOW-TECH & NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
• INVESTORS
• A SMALL PURPOSE-DRIVEN GLOBAL NETWORK

The EDEN Partners Network

It was now 6 years…from taking the leap of faith & walking away from Rome…to now moving to paradise…”Calabrifornia.”

In order to create the Environmental Development Education Network, it was obvious what had to be done to create a new purpose-driven network to regenerate people & planet.

First, set up a spreadsheet around Dunbar Numbers

• 5 Loved Ones
• 15 Good Friends
• 50 Friends
• 150 Meaningful Contacts
• 500 Acquaintances

Then, relying on my super powers with people, I began to network with an internet connection, relying on LinkedIn, while isolating myself on farm…for what turned into 2 years…and the long night of the soul.

The Long-Night of the Soul

We thankfully live in the information age.

Knowledge kept by secret societies for thousands of years…is now available if you search hard enough.

Real change…comes from the inside…a longer conversation if you’re ever interested…that can be summed up as:

To Me, By Me, Through Me

The bigger the change, the more the universe will test you.

Staying isolated…finally adopting meditation…progress was slow but steady.

That was until about 1.5 years in…when yet again…my old life with Steak Club & primary source of income/stress was finished. A supplier stole 8000 EUR…but this time it was different.

Instead of going into a negative spin…it was finally time to let go.

No longer dividing my time & focus…aligned in mind & heart…trusting in the universe…a total transformation….while operating at a higher frequency.

Bootstrapping Entrepreneur to Infrastructure Finance

Remember the manifestation sheet above?

Coming into 2025, every single point is now true.

Now reflecting…I wouldn’t change anything…and in case you’re curious, learning Italian took 2 months (vs. 10 years for Polish) ->

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Change is not easy…growth is uncomfortable, but we must face the painful changes that are coming.

As 2025 begins, and our first Bio-Regional Regeneration project begins with the release of Billions of Dollars

Just remember…

NATURE IS ABUNDANCE

Don’t live in fear or listen to the fear mongering on the news. 

Together, we can regenerate people, planet & fair profits.

A future, where People & Nature can live in harmony.

Through cooperation & abundance, we can all find Purpose, Partnerships & Prosperity. 

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