Council is pleased to officially launch today the Cardinia Food Circle’s project, a collective impact approach to transforming our local food system. Food literacy so people understand what they’re eating…
That’s what we do at FoodLab Detroit. We provide technical assistance. We provide mentorship. We provide support to entrepreneurs in Detroit who are looking to use the power of business to solve a problem, a food-related problem, in the city of Detroit.
“Is it more important for your food to be organic or is it more important for you to know your farmer?” Overwhelmingly, Detroiters said, “It’s more important for us that we actually know our farmer…
Growing is a big part of a huge lifestyle that we have in the city of Detroit, but I want to be clear that food is very intersectional. Not only are we growing the tomatoes and produce and other kinds of fruits and vegetables…
When you don’t have fresh, healthy, affordable food in your community, what happens is the repercussions of that is diet-related diseases. That’s why we now have a community of Detroiters where 70% of Detroiters…
We look at a lot of modern tractors these days, they’ve got these little collapsible-type ROPS frames here as well, which are designed for going underneath trees, or that type of thing or in orchards.
In 2015, there were 69 deaths on farms. What would you think would be … I’m going to look at the top five, the headline acts for this sort of thing. What do you think would be the main things that are causing farm deaths?
The good bacteria also play a very important role in detoxification. They’re like the garbage trucks of the gut. They go through, pick up all the rubbish, and then shunt it out through the faeces.
There’s a very strong connection between the gut and the brain, we call that the gut-brain axis. This is a little bit more about that gut-brain connection. Now, the developing brain of infants…
Now, many of us in the room today will experience a handful of these symptoms on a regular basis. But how often do we actually stop to think about…
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?
As Soil Lovers we respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past present and emerging.
When caring for your land take a moment in stillness to respect the wisdom your land is sharing with you.
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