Marieke Rodenste is a holistic dietitian and nutritionist, and she got into the field because of her own health issues. As a teenager she was an elite level distance runner and triathlete, and she dutifully followed…
Tammi Jonas questions Charlie about how chemical agriculture affects our health…
Wendell Berry gave us the quote, “Eating is an agricultural act.” So that comes from Wendell Berry, and Michael Pollan added later with ‘an agricultural and political act…
What I do in one of the early chapters, after I’ve surveyed why Australian landscape is so different to Europe, where agriculture came from is I track the evolution of…
Listen as interviewer Tammi Jonas questions Charlie about some of the farmers who are written about in the book. Charlie replies that Allan Savory, Colin Seis and Bruce Maynard…
Listen as interviewer Tammi Jonas questions Charlie about the importance of a healthy and functioning soil and how it relates directly…
Whether it be the Amazon rainforest, or what’s going on in Indonesia, let alone Australian ongoing clearing. Then the use of chemicals and fertilisers, like industrial nitrogen…
If we look at the definition of the word science, the definition of the word science is “adherence to natural laws and principles”. That’s what science is supposed to be.
So everyone knows that this change is coming, and the bigger operators are jumping on board rather than playing catch up. It’s really easy to argue quite compellingly…
Understand if we do go back to root causes, that it all comes down to nutrition. In human health, in animal health, in plant health, nutrition is the key to everything. It all comes back to … and what is nutrition farming?
Now when we talk about the chemistry story, one of the stories that I think it’s fair to mention is that every culture at some point has asked the question…
And then we look at the agriculture model where, if you have a good look at this and you can Google to check, every year … I call the last 100 years “the chemical experiment”…
I want to just tell you a little bit about pruning techniques. What we’ve got here is a pair of bypass secateurs. These are basically with a hook there and a blade there. Keep that as sharp as possible.
If crop rotation is about controlling pests and diseases, why am I planting a crop that’s just as susceptible to this particular problem in the ground in the same bed? So I moved it. I kind of got thinking crop rotation is a good rule…
Extending your harvest using varieties can actually be a really good way of going. That goes with successional planting as well. Just making sure that you plant that…
So grow what you love, and do it in the way you love. There’s many techniques, there’s so many techniques of growing things. I don’t know, a lot of people get caught up on I want to go biodynamics, I want to go permaculture…
So you’ve bought your block of land. Where do you start? Well, plan … I actually start during site analysis. It’s a simple thing. You identify where north is, so where your sun’s going to come across, and make sure that you also do…
Organic certification is one way around that, but there’s a lot of farmers who are not really interested in becoming organically certified, but they still want to produce using biological methods. Fair trade certification.
It’s a total myth that free trade will solve hunger. The world already produces enough food for the expected population in 2050. We’re already producing food enough…
I spend a bit of time in the book talking about technology and research, and the paradigms of research. These days, most agricultural research is funded not by governments.
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