A Year of Growing 100% of Your Food with Rob Greenfield
02/20/20 • 30 min
Episode Highlights
- From little garden experience to growing 100% of his food on land that he did not own
- How to acquire land for gardening without owning it
- Working with the community to build resilience
- Why Rob was triggered by the industrial food system
- The impact of his Permaculture Design course he got in Guatemala
- Challenges of living a self-sustained lifestyle
About Rob Greenfield
Rob Greenfield is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues and inspire positive change. His life is an embodiment of Gandhi’s philosophy, “Be the change you wish to see in the world."
In a time when many feel disempowered, Rob believes that our actions really do matter and that as individuals and communities we have the power to improve the world around us. He is currently traveling on the 2020 World Solutions Tour sharing solutions to our current problems, leading solution-based action days, and spreading stories of communities and people that are standing up for sustainability, truth, equality and justice. 100% of Rob’s speaking honorariums for the tour are donated to indigenous and women led grassroots organizations.
Episode Highlights:
- From little garden experience to growing 100% of his food on land that he did not own
- How to acquire land for gardening without owning it
- Working with the community to build resilience
Show Links:
- Rob's Website
- Shared Earth Website mentioned by Rob
Episode Highlights
- From little garden experience to growing 100% of his food on land that he did not own
- How to acquire land for gardening without owning it
- Working with the community to build resilience
- Why Rob was triggered by the industrial food system
- The impact of his Permaculture Design course he got in Guatemala
- Challenges of living a self-sustained lifestyle
About Rob Greenfield
Rob Greenfield is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues and inspire positive change. His life is an embodiment of Gandhi’s philosophy, “Be the change you wish to see in the world."
In a time when many feel disempowered, Rob believes that our actions really do matter and that as individuals and communities we have the power to improve the world around us. He is currently traveling on the 2020 World Solutions Tour sharing solutions to our current problems, leading solution-based action days, and spreading stories of communities and people that are standing up for sustainability, truth, equality and justice. 100% of Rob’s speaking honorariums for the tour are donated to indigenous and women led grassroots organizations.
Episode Highlights:
- From little garden experience to growing 100% of his food on land that he did not own
- How to acquire land for gardening without owning it
- Working with the community to build resilience
Show Links:
- Rob's Website
- Shared Earth Website mentioned by Rob
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Radical Mycology with Peter McCoy
Episode Highlights:
- Roles of fungi and mycelium play in living ecosystems
- Fungi evolved on land long before plants
- How to manage partnerships with fungi and plants (gardens, orchards, food forests, etc)
- Importance of mycorrhizal fungi
- Nutrient exchange
- Connect plants to the wider forest ("The Wood Wide Web")
- Utilizing fungal inoculants for specific garden types
- Producing your own garden inoculants
- Myco-remediation and how fungi can break down even the most toxic compounds
About Peter McCoy
Peter McCoy has been studying and working with fungi for twenty years, and teaching mushroom cultivation and applied mycology to people around the world for over a decade. His book, Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi has been praised as the most important and comprehensive text on fungal ecology, mushroom cultivation, mycoremediation, and medicinal mushrooms written to date, and one of the most significant contributions to advancing mycology in the 21st century. Peter's work is widely regarded as pioneering in the topics of applied mycology and his voice is one of the foremost in the less-explored fields of fungal evolution, fungal communication, and the history of fungi in human cultures.
In 2017, Peter founded MYCOLOGOS, the world's first mycology school, to share his extensive knowledge through online courses and in-person training programs. A lover of the outdoors, Peter's work is a direct response to a life spent foraging in the fungi-rich Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Episode Highlights:
- Roles of fungi and mycelium play in living ecosystems
- Fungi evolved on land long before plants
- How to manage partnerships with fungi and plants (gardens, orchards, food forests, etc)
- Importance of mycorrhizal fungi
- Nutrient exchange
- Connect plants to the wider forest ("The Wood Wide Web")
- Utilizing fungal inoculants for specific garden types
- Producing your own garden inoculants
- Myco-remediation and how fungi can break down even the most toxic compounds
Show Links:
- Peter's Online Website (Including the online education): Mycologos
- Radical Mycology Book
- Rodale's Article on making your own local mycorrhizal inoculants
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Permaculture for the Future - A Year of Growing 100% of Your Food with Rob Greenfield
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Welcome to the permaculture for the future podcast. I'm your host, Josh Robinson. The world is full of negative news, and the planet seems to be in an ecological crisis, and this can be downright disheartening and disenfranchising because we feel that there's nothing that each one of us can do is an individual that can make any difference. Well, I'm here to provide a different perspective. To tell a new story. Permaculture for the future Podcast is all a
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