Reframing Agriculture

Food is essential for human survival. And yet, our current food system is horribly destructive to our planet. Learn about how we can reframe agriculture, return to Indigenous and traditional farming systems and connect with the soil, food and Earth.

Featuring Amyrose Foll, Executive Director and Founder of Virginia Free Farm and Dr. David Lezaks, Senior Fellow at Croatan Institute

[Winter_IsHere]

I have a suburban land 1/4 acre, house included. I started some years ago a vegetable garden. My wife used to joke about the miserable vegetables I grew. Now a few years later she looks forward to what comes from the vegetable garden. Fresh garlic, young delicious patotoes, spinach, fresh lettuce, french beans, beetroots, kale for soup, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, small fruit trees. Add composting to improve soil. Nothing gets lost, kitchen scraps, branches, leaves. The more natural the better. I try to plant and eat according to season. The next step to try, some chickens for eggs. People don't realize but eggs is meat, loads of proteins. It is also very versatile in use. You said it right, you can't eat money or gold.

[Rhodietoo]

It is always good to see what other people are doing in the regenerative movement. I started at school, looking at no dig/cover or companion planting of plants and herbs in tropical Africa (Zambia). We moved to Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, where, after school I learned more about regenerative systems from several people, often from reading what was being done in other countries as well as local researchers and practitioners, and restored 25000 Ha of denuded veld back to health as a conservancy and cattle ranch in the 70's. Since then, the movement has gained more knowledge, and the holistic management framework is now an essential part of any regenerative practice, be it silvopasture, high density grazing, food forests etc. I enjoyed your video especially as my main interest in retirement is advising on development of communal gardens.

[someguy]

This is good for our environment and climate change. Even better would be no till veganic farming. They have proved that neither animal manure nor synthetic fertilizers are needed to succeed.
For consumers, switching to a purely plant based diet is the most effective way to minimize our environmental footprint. "According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”

“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.

Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study.

Links at my channel under "About."

[MatthewLombardi]

I would very much like this to be the future.
But we would have to find a way to adapt it to feed our growing population efficiently and cheaply enough.
And at this time I don't think we know how to do this.