Enumeration of the learning and working steps.

Step 1: a four-year apprenticeship with traditional Maya farmers. For the first time, the structure and significance of Mayan agriculture was analysed, previously unknown agricultural methods were documented and experimentally investigated on a test site. The results were analysed in a comprehensive doctoral thesis from a scientific and socio-political perspective.

Step 2: Purchase of 15 hectares of devastated land in co-operation with nine local colleagues who wished to farm a total of 150 hectares traditionally. Setting up the infrastructure for this land, road, deep wells and irrigation channels, took seven years. At the end of this time, the colleagues were no longer able to pursue the original concept and turned to conventional farming.

Step 3: Chan Ká Vergel began as an individual project in 1990. For three years it housed a school of sustainable organic Mayan agriculture for Guatemalan refugee children.
In parallel and in an integrated way, a small-scale farmer development project was set up to establish agricultural practices outside the direct area of influence of the Oxkutzcab community. I became the most successful small-scale farming project in the Yucatan Peninsula and eventually ran a rural radio station, broadcasting a total of 116 programmes in Maya about agricultural practices.

Step 4: B began to represent the Maya farming experience within the international organic farming movement and, as a result of his critical interventions, was appointed to the board of the international federation IFOAM after its general assembly recognised that organic farming was not a European invention but an ancient indigenous practice.

Step 5: In order to enable an independent assessment of agricultural practices, B introduced an international certification body for natural agricultural practices as part of the EFF form. He succeeded in expanding the international movement from the original 30,000 member farmers to 3 million. Despite the large number of different practices, it succeeded in adopting internationally harmonised organic farming standards and agreeing on a certification procedure.

Step 6: Two international organic farming congresses in 1988 in Ouagadougou, Africa, and 1991 in Budapest were dedicated to these topics, providing strong impetus to establish organic farming in Eastern Europe.

Step 7: B left the movement when it became clear that the EU Commission had successfully co-opted it. B then devoted himself to creating parallel structures in the field of sustainable forestry. This resulted in the FSC Stewart Stewardship Council. In 1997, the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, the organisation representing the largest forest owner in Germany, was successfully committed to this concept. Again, B left the organisation when it became clear that it was being infiltrated by other interests.

Step 8: B created the international training institute Trees for People, which operated worldwide between 1990 and 1998 and trained a total of 650 managers, methodologists, professionals and conceptualisers to implement initiatives to promote organic farming and sustainable forest management.

Step 9: Sabileros Mayas
Unión de Ejidos

Step 10: Due to the repeated failure of his initiatives, B began to devote himself to the basic organisational structures that governed agriculture, forestry and the economy. This led him into the field of health understanding, which in turn found its expression in medical practice.B had already realised several times in his research that there was no way around the joint consideration of food production, landscape design and human health. The three areas were and are clearly structurally linked. In order to counter destruction effectively, it was therefore necessary to discover these structures.

Step 11: the BodyPolitics initiative was founded in 2003 at a congress on the Medicine of Cultures convened by the Dalai Lama; it was well received by the audience at this congress, but was not realised.

Step 12: B withdrew to Chan Ká Vergel, built a first hut for himself there, began restoring the forest and setting up an independent Maya business under his own management. The result is today's Chan Ká Vergel.

Step 13: Production of health-promoting substances and their experimental use.

Step 14. Presentation of the possibilities of sustainable rainforest restoration.

Step 15: Restoration of a pre-Hispanic Mayan village

Step 16: Conceptual reappraisal of the assessment of ancient Maya cultures through archaeology and anthropology, presentation of Maya civilisation dynamics from a practical perspective.