We Are Carbon - Great Nutrition - Motivation for Regeneration! With Zuzanna Zielinska [HarvestCare]

Great Nutrition - Motivation for Regeneration! With Zuzanna Zielinska [HarvestCare]

05/02/23 • 67 min

We Are Carbon

Episode Links:

HarvestCare website: https://www.harvestcare.eu/

Coalition of Health Professionals for Regenerative Agriculture: https://www.regenerativehealthcoalition.com/

This Episode on the We Are Carbon website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/nutrition-motivation-for-regeneration/

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In this interview I'm joined by Zuzanna Zielinska, founder of HarvestCare to discuss the role of nutrition as a key link between the health of people and planet.

It's difficult to talk about a regenerative future without bringing the focus on to soil, though a topic I feel gets vastly overlooked is the nutrition that that soil can output.

What better motivation do we have for becoming engaged with the health of the world around us, than the impact that it has on our own personal wellbeing?

If we could really get a grasp of the significance that quality nutrition has upon our health and happiness then valuing the biodiversity and food production methods that make it all possible may be a chain reaction.

It's a pretty big topic, so I asked Zuzanna to take us back to basics and offer a break down of what nutrition is and its importance from her perspective as a nutritionist.

Then we dig deeper as she shares her inspirational story and drive to create systems change through the seemingly simple yet powerful role of food access and education as a means to heal disease, communities and ecosystems.

I hope you'll enjoy learning from her valuable knowledge!

This Episode on the We Are Carbon website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/nutrition-motivation-for-regeneration/

Episode Links:

HarvestCare website: https://www.harvestcare.eu/

Coalition of Health Professionals for Regenerative Agriculture: https://www.regenerativehealthcoalition.com/

This Episode on the We Are Carbon website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/nutrition-motivation-for-regeneration/

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In this interview I'm joined by Zuzanna Zielinska, founder of HarvestCare to discuss the role of nutrition as a key link between the health of people and planet.

It's difficult to talk about a regenerative future without bringing the focus on to soil, though a topic I feel gets vastly overlooked is the nutrition that that soil can output.

What better motivation do we have for becoming engaged with the health of the world around us, than the impact that it has on our own personal wellbeing?

It's a pretty big topic, so I asked Zuzanna to take us back to basics and offer a break down of what nutrition is and its importance from her perspective as a nutritionist.

I hope you'll enjoy learning from her valuable knowledge!

This Episode on the We Are Carbon website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/nutrition-motivation-for-regeneration/

Previous Episode

A Regenerative Future - Yesterday's Sunlight or Today's? With John Roulac [EP Kiss The Ground]

In this interview I’m joined by John Roulac to consider the big picture of what it means to move forward regeneratively and the challenges of bringing the needs of our financial and natural worlds on to the same page.

There’s so many nuggets of wisdom in this one that it’s difficult to pick a highlight!

From mob grazing to seaweed straws and a follow up to Kiss The Ground, this conversation is tied together through John’s active involvement in a vast range of regenerative initiatives around the globe.

An investor and key player in highly successful companies, John has also been driven by an ecological awareness to discover practical solutions to our environmental challenges and as such has founded six non-profits through his career.

This was a fantastic opportunity therefore to tap into a valuable point of view around why it can be such a challenge for large scale investment to be directed into regenerative solutions.

Is a dying planet enough of a motivation to innovate our financial climate, and are so called green technologies always what they’re cracked up to be?

We learn about some really impactful projects offering healing for people and the environment through the simplicity of allowing nature to take the lead.

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Episode Links:

John's website: https://johnroulac.com/

John's Substack: https://johnroulac.substack.com/

Kiss The Ground Movie: https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

This Episode on the We Are Carbon Website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/regenerative-future-todays-sunlight/

Next Episode

Scaling Up Regeneration - Tipping the Balance in Favour of Grass Fed. With Richard Tufton

Episode Links:

Previous We Are Carbon episodes that include the climate benefits of grazing animals:

Recommendations from Richard-

To Watch:

Books:

This Episode of the website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/podcast-episode/scaling-regenerative-agriculture-grass-fed-beef/

[Find all the above as clickable links on this page].

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In this interview I’m joined by Richard Tufton who helps us to mull over the challenges and what might be needed to scale up regenerative meats within the supply chains to supermarkets, and build greater public awareness about purchasing options.

We’ve frequently heard about the role of ruminant animals in the healing of land and sequestering of carbon – Find links above to previous episodes that explain that in more detail.

But with such huge numbers of livestock being raised in more industrialised feedlot systems, the narrative gets very muddied, with cattle frequently branded as the climate enemy.

Richard shares that in the US alone 120,000 head of cattle are slaughtered everyday for meat production. That sounds horrifying, but it’s a reality, it’s where we’re at and it’s a huge contribution to our food system.

So this is a complex conversation and it could be taken in many directions but our biggest focus in this discussion is that only a tiny, tiny percentage of those animals are regeneratively raised.

Producing cattle in systems that are healing to the land is also proving to be hugely beneficial to the farmers who adopt those approaches, but there are big barriers to shifting things in that direction at scale.

Whatever your views on meat I think it’s a conversation that everyone can take interest in because, as Richard concludes, ultimately it’s the consumer who has the power to change the system.

He bring us insights from a career hands on within the meat supply chain first within his home country – the UK, and in more recent years as chief sustainability officer for one of the largest suppliers of natural and organic meats going into the US supermarket system.

He helps us to consider what might need to be done to provide purchasers with both the convenience and the understanding to make choices that could really scale things up for regeneration.