About | 59degrees Soil Architects

About 59degrees

Most soil advice stops at the lab report. We go further.

59degrees treats soil as a living system — where chemistry, physics, and biology have to align before regeneration is even possible. Our job is to find the limiting factor in your system, not hand you a twenty-item shopping list.

We use the Soil Function Ladder to index where your soil sits today — Collapsed, Recoverable, Resilient, or Regenerative — and map the practical steps to move it up. Every recommendation is tied to your context: your climate, your rotation, your risk tolerance.

Founded in Sweden by Josef Winter, 59degrees works across the Nordics, UK, and Baltics with farmers, growers, and land managers who want soil biology to become their primary nutrient system — not a bolt-on.

59 Degrees—Restoring soil, through science-based regeneration.

Josef Winter

I grew up on a dairy farm in West Wales and have worked as a professional arborist since 1999. That background taught me how plants and soil interact over decades, not seasons.

I trained with Ernst Götsch in Bahia, Brazil, learning the principles of syntropic agroforestry, and have spent the last decade applying Albrecht-based soil diagnostics to working farms across Northern Europe. I founded 59degrees to bridge the gap between soil science and practical farm decisions — because most growers don’t need more data, they need a clear next step as to how to use it.