Rethinking the Potential of People and Enterprises

How can farms help us reshape leadership, organisational culture and the future of our communities? In this contribution we encounter two approaches that offer new impulses for development and change.

Aonghus Gordon shows how biodynamic practice carries within it a structure with which organisations and communities can be rethought culturally, financially and legally. In this view, the farm becomes a place where human community potential can grow and unfold. This path of development calls for self-leadership – and in the long term leads to new learning and working communities.

Tara Gratton then introduces the concept of Conscious Succession (conscious succession). Drawing on research and the practical experience of the Ruskin Mill Trust, she shows how communities can shape leadership transitions clearly and consciously. Succession here does not simply mean filling roles anew, but becomes a living process of continuity, renewal and shared responsibility.

A contribution by Aonghus Gordon and Tara Gratton to the 2026 Agriculture Conference “You never farm alone”.

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Publication: 20 February 2026