Food, farming and soil health. Abby Rose

This week we explore a couple of the themes from our episodes with Dr. Jenny Goodman, author of Staying Alive in Toxic Times.

Why is food today not what food was when our parents and their parents were growing up? What has happened to cause this shift?

It became apparent in the podcasts with Jenny that we would need to get a deeper insight into the reasons why the food we eat today is not as nutrient-dense and complete as the food our parents and their parents grew up eating, in order to get more of an understanding as to how this connects with the health of the world around us and ourselves.

Jenny mentioned these ideas and more specifically soil health. I mean what even is soil and what is Regenerative Agriculture all about? Is it all hyperbole and buzzwords like so much in the media.

And in the UK scene, there is one person we go to, Abby Rose.

Abby is a farmer, soil health advocate, and co-host/producer of the Farmerama podcast. A super podcast resource on farming today, and what needs to be done for the future. Well worth checking out if you want to go down that rabbit hole, have an allotment, or simply want to understand more to make more informed choices about the food you buy and eat.

She is a great source of knowledge on soil health, regenerative agriculture, how farming practices have changed, and how they are underpinned by a system of perhaps outdated industries and practices, that have come to the end of their efficacy.

We talk about this and more, culminating in perhaps the unexpected outcome of who the farming industry actually serves, man or machine.

So here we go, part 3 of our staying alive in toxic times series inspired by Dr. Jenny Goodman’s book. Get your notebooks at the ready, here is Abby Rose.

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