BioComplete™ Soils; Alive by Design

At 59degrees Soil Architects, we guide you on the path to BioComplete™ soils—cultivating stronger crops, healthier plants, and the vital ecosystems that support all life. Based in Stockholm at 59° latitude, we serve those whose livelihoods depend on nature’s life-giving processes—with the time, care, and commitment they deserve.

Our Mission

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle

At 59degrees, we honour these words by working to restore the often-invisible threads that sustain life beneath our feet—the living soil networks essential to the long-term fertility of our land and the health of our planet.

Our mission is to empower our clients with the tools, insights, and regenerative practices they need to steward soil not as a mere resource, but as a living system to be honored—managed with integrity, dignity, and care for generations to come.

We don’t just grow soil— but a culture of stewardship that respects the interconnected web we all depend on.

Our Projects

Showcasing innovative soil solutions for sustainable landscapes.

Arable Agriculture

Enhancing soil health for better annual cropping cycles.

Horticulture

Biocomplete™ engineered soil solutions.

Urban Gardens

Balancing, invigorating and rejuvenating soils in perennial systems

Transplants of high value woody plants

Quality products, essential to the establishment of high value plants.

Who is 59degrees?

My name is Josef Winter, founder of 59degrees. I’m often described as an innovator, a pioneer—sometimes even a nerd—but at heart, I’m fuelled by a deep, enduring curiosity about the dynamic and often invisible systems that shape our living landscapes.

I believe that agriculture, at its highest expression, is a creative endeavour—one rooted in humility, observation, and relationship. My work is dedicated to uncovering the underlying logic of life: how organisms interact, reorganise, and co-evolve to construct ecosystems that are more than the sum of their parts.

I’m continually in awe of nature’s ingenuity. Whether it’s the dendrological pattern of a tree, the flight-path of a bee, or the silent labour of microbes and slugs decomposing matter beneath our feet—there’s a paradox at play. Amidst complexity, life expresses a profound simplicity. And in that, I see not just beauty, but instruction: a framework for structuring human systems with greater coherence, resilience, and elegance.

At its essence, life is nature’s way of transforming energy—dissipating chemical and thermodynamic gradients into ordered, flourishing systems. That process is nothing short of miraculous. Our mission at 59degrees is to harness that same energetic principle—channelling it into solutions that help our human systems mirror the intelligence and synergy of the more-than-human world.

It is from this spirit of wonder and inquiry that genuine insights emerge—insights into the human challenges of food production, ecological degradation, and systemic fragmentation. At 59degrees, we translate these insights into actionable strategies—bridging the gap between systems ecology and real-world implementation. The result: measurable increases in soil vitality, ecosystem functionality, productivity, and biodiversity.

I envision a world where agriculture is no longer built on cycles of extraction and exhaustion, but on regeneration. A world where food is grown in soil alive with microbial life, resilience, and potential. As Buckminster Fuller once said, “If it’s not beautiful, it’s not finished.” I believe that as human beings, our task is to make beauty—not just in the aesthetic sense, but in the integrity and function of the systems we build—central to the future we design.

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Using biocomplete™ 59degrees Soil Architects transformed the health of our trees. We observed an overnight result from a long standing soil toxicity issue.

Engla R. Engelsberg's Bruk

The results with biocomplete™ soils are incredible; my crops have never been more productive and vibrant.

James T.