Last week, despite the ungodly hours (3AM and 12 AM start), I found myself absorbed in presentations from the International Conference on Homeopathy in Agriculture and Environment 2026.
What fascinated me most was not simply homeopathy itself, but the broader discussion around observation, systems thinking, and scientific complexity.
Pat, an Irish dairy farmer who has integrated homeopathy into his animal and farm management, delivered something quietly compelling. Behind the humour (lots of LOL moments) was a clinical logic I recognised. He was observing the land and the individual animal, the symptoms, the constitution, environmental stressors, and patterns of response over time — the same framework a practitioner may use with a person, applied to livestock and farm systems.
Dr Alex Tournier, a theoretical physicist, explored the ongoing scientific challenge of explaining how homeopathy may work within current biological and physical models.
It raised an interesting question for me: throughout history, how often has practical observation preceded scientific explanation? Humans used fermentation long before microbiology existed, just as many biological and environmental systems were observed long before science developed the tools to fully explain them.
Homeopathy sits within that contested space. The research is mixed, the debate ongoing, and the questions legitimate. What interests me — both as a clinician and as someone working within regenerative land systems — is where the evidence appears strongest, where new research is emerging, and what this may mean across human, animal, and ecological health systems.
That is what this presentation explores.
What fascinated me most was not simply homeopathy itself, but the broader discussion around observation, systems thinking, and scientific complexity.
Pat, an Irish dairy farmer who has integrated homeopathy into his animal and farm management, delivered something quietly compelling. Behind the humour (lots of LOL moments) was a clinical logic I recognised. He was observing the land and the individual animal, the symptoms, the constitution, environmental stressors, and patterns of response over time — the same framework a practitioner may use with a person, applied to livestock and farm systems.
Dr Alex Tournier, a theoretical physicist, explored the ongoing scientific challenge of explaining how homeopathy may work within current biological and physical models.
It raised an interesting question for me: throughout history, how often has practical observation preceded scientific explanation? Humans used fermentation long before microbiology existed, just as many biological and environmental systems were observed long before science developed the tools to fully explain them.
Homeopathy sits within that contested space. The research is mixed, the debate ongoing, and the questions legitimate. What interests me — both as a clinician and as someone working within regenerative land systems — is where the evidence appears strongest, where new research is emerging, and what this may mean across human, animal, and ecological health systems.
That is what this presentation explores.
