Ashes Ashes
Ashes Ashes
Ashes Ashes
Ep 16 – What We Reap
1 hour 30 minutes Posted Mar 22, 2018 at 7:01 am.
Unsustainability
Can Anyone Farm?
What is Topsoil?
Soil: Bacteria
Soil: Fungus
Pear Tree from the Ashes
Chemical Revolution
Soil: Nitrogen
Overshoot and Carrying Capacity
Industrial Agriculture
Debt Cycle of Fear
Financial Resiliency
Balancing Large and Small
Organic Profitability
Input Costs
Phosphorous
Diversity
Weeds
Monoculture
Honeybees
Plant Nutrition
Soil Nutrition
Wine
Climate Change: Soil Loss
Climate Change: Heat
Year Round Growing
Variability
Hope?
Thinking About Technology
Exponential Growth
Diversity and Integration
What is Productive
Supporting Farming
The Most Important Question
More About Chris
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Episode 16 - "What We Reap"
Global topsoil is being lost at terrifying rates. So much so that many experts predict less than 60 years left of agricultural yields before the global food system collapses. Add to this questionable chemical inputs, monoculture, and other large-scale industrial practices as well as the dangers climate change introduces to disrupt traditionally fertile regions (decreasing yields further and impacting food nutrition) and we've got a perfect storm on the horizon.
We are joined by Chris D'Alessandro of Harvest Moon Garden & Orchard to discuss organic farming techniques, what it means to form a regenerative relationship with the soil, and hopefully how we can avoid this coming tragedy.
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