Texas Hill Country Ecology: How the Land, Water, and Landscape Changed

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The Texas Hill Country did not arrive at its current condition by accident. Its water challenges, soil loss, vegetation shifts, and flooding patterns are the result of more than a century of land-use change layered onto a complex ecological system shaped by flood and drought. This foundational guide explains how the Hill Country functioned, what changed, and why understanding that history matters for regeneration today.

How To Revive An Overgrazed Pasture: 8 Simple Steps To Restore Health To Land

Overgrazed pasture with vehicle tracks and compacted soil affecting water infiltration.

How to Revive an Overgrazed Pasture How Pasture Recovery Connects to Water, Soil, and Whole-Land Function Updated 2026. Part of the Symbiosis TX Education Hub on regenerative land management. Overgrazed pasture is not only a grazing problem. It is a water problem, a soil problem, and a systems problem. When grasslands lose cover and root […]

Understanding Biodynamic Agriculture With Adam Russell – Where Hope Grows Podcast

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Understanding Biodynamic Agriculture With Adam Russell – Where Hope Grows Podcast Join us for an insightful episode of the “Where Hope Grows” podcast, featuring Adam Russell, as the podcast delves into the world of biodynamic agriculture—a holistic farming approach that treats the farm as a self-sustaining ecosystem.  Biodynamic agriculture, rooted in the early 20th-century teachings […]

Agnihotra & Land Regeneration with Adam Russell on the Strange Road Podcast

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Mikey and Stoner get to finally reconnect with Adam Russell on this episode. We met Adam while working the 2018 Tribalize Event with our friend Chris. We were in between setting up for an interview and shooting a scheduled livestream when we saw Adam give a presentation about Agnihotra and Land Regeneration. Agni Hotra is […]

Learning Regenerative Land Design Principals That Really Work

This month we at Symbiosis Regenerative Systems care to share some of our design systems that empower us to find the right solutions. We work with a myriad of different types of client goals and properties that contain multitudes of diverse ecosystems. From high caliche hill country Juniper and Oak forests in the west, to […]

Look Inside A 200 Acre Permaculture Project in Texas

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A brief overview with Michael Wolfert of what a master planned, 200 acre permaculture project in Central Texas involves.  We’re using every tool in our tool box to achieve our key metrics of success. We’re using earthworks, keyline/ yeomans plow rips, no-till seed drilling, brush berms, log check dams, biodiversity plantings, rotational grazing and more.  […]