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"How societies use their land and who owns that land determines how people live, who flourishes, who falters, and who has a say in what happens next."

Land Power:  How Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies, by Michael Albertus, 2025.

Holocia is about transformation and empowerment. We saw major problems caused by car-dependent sprawl development: destruction of communities, farmland, and ecosystems. Years of effort using conventional methods to improve things left us feeling that we alleviated a few symptoms but had no effect on the disease.  We knew there had to be a solution, so we created Holocia to empower people to make a real difference: in their quality of life, cost of living, health, community and environment.

We believe the key lies in collectively investing in new community places. Our long-term goal is Nature Towns - small, walkable towns paired with regenerative farms - but we’re proving the concept today through Nature Farms, the first step in this transformation. Nature Farms enhance soil quality and biodiversity and provide nourishing food for our members, while Nature Towns will also cultivate stronger connections among residents. Our vision is a series of “islands of coherence” that promote human and planetary health, and residents thrive in rhythm with nature.

Holocia was born from two converging journeys—one in agriculture, the other in city life. My co-founder saw firsthand how industrial farming was destroying rural communities and the land. I, meanwhile, experienced the joy of car-free, walkable places and saw the damage sprawl was doing in Central Texas. We realized the solution was not just better farming or better cities, but both—small, walkable towns surrounded by protected regenerative farms. With an innovative financing model, Holocia empowers people to invest in farmland and a healthier, more connected way of living.

Our Leadership Team

We realized that we could combine regenerative community financing with a smaller project of Nature Farms, which would become the Minimum Viable Project that we have struggled to define, letting go of the requirement that a project would need to include housing in order to prove the concept.
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Karin Ascot

Co-Founder

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Patrick Van Haren

Co-Founder and CEO

Integrity

Integrity as a virtue and the skill of integrating many disciplines share a deep conceptual connection, especially when viewed through the lens of wholeness and coherence.a

Wholeness

The root of integrity comes from the Latin integritas, meaning "wholeness" or "completeness." A person with integrity aligns their values, actions, and words into a cohesive whole. Similarly, integrating multiple disciplines means weaving together different fields into a unified, functional system—creating intellectual integrity in solutions.

Consistency & Coherence

Just as moral integrity demands internal consistency (walking the talk), successful interdisciplinary thinking requires coherence—ensuring that insights from different domains align into a non-contradictory, harmonious whole. Without integrity, either moral or intellectual, fragmentation leads to dysfunction.

Truth & Truth-Seeking

A person with integrity seeks truth rather than convenience. Similarly, integrating disciplines effectively requires intellectual honesty—avoiding dogma, questioning assumptions, and seeking the most accurate synthesis rather than favoring one field over another for personal or ideological reasons.

Strength & Resilience

Integrity in character creates resilience in adversity, just as integrated, multi-disciplinary solutions are more robust than siloed approaches. Regenerative agriculture, for example, works because it integrates soil science, ecology, economics, and traditional farming wisdom into a stronger, more adaptive system.

Wayfinding

In a wayfinding sense, integrity is about staying true to a guiding principle despite complexity. Integrative thinking does the same—navigating across disciplines to find a coherent path forward rather than getting lost in conflicting perspectives.

At its core, both integrity and integrative thinking are about holding things together in a meaningful way, ensuring strength, coherence, and resilience in both character and innovation.

Our Partners:

The Great Challenges

Help Stop the Dysfunction!

Supporting Nature Farms and Nature Towns builds Regenerative Places
UPF

Ultra Processed Foods

Plastics

Single Use Plastics

Sprawl

Sprawl

Food Waste

Food Waste

Chemicals

Industrial Agriculture

CAFO

Confined Animal Feeding Operations

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