Can Your Beans Do That?

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Musings on how raising and eating rotationally-grazed meats is an unparalleled venue to address a host of issues; ranging from carbon sequestration to the diabetes epidemic to the decline of rural communities. The podcasts are best listened to in chronological order as many concepts build on each ot…

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    • Feb 10, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    #3-3 Scale: The Discontinuity of Scale

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2024 50:52


    Nature scales through gestalts, not linearly. I suggest that water provides us with an appropriate model for scaling.

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    #3-2 Scale - Limits of Linearity

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2023 44:28


    Arguing that intelligence is great deal more than processing and computation. Also that viewing the world through the single lens of cause and effect is a form of insanity.

    #3-1.5 Restating My Position On Seed Banks

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2023 18:54


    Restating my position on seed bank bombings.

    #3-1 Scale: Dismantling the Premises

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2023 49:21


    The most common criticism against regenerative agriculture is that it can't accomplish what conventional agriculture can; specifically in terms of "feeding the world". Not only is the question loaded, it conceals some nasty realities.

    #2-5 Interview by Natnael Asmelash

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2023 88:17


    A conversation with my son's former roomate.

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    #2-4 Things As Verbs

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 56:15


    A talk I gave after a viewing of the film Kiss The Ground

    Can Your Beans Do That? (Trailer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 0:43


    #2-3. Webinar: Soil Health From a Grazier's Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 95:48


    Audio from a VABF webinar on soil health. Delves into how, compared to vegetable or grain growing, rotational grazing has very different leverage points of entry into Nature's systems.

    #2-2. Conversation #1 (Inga Haugen) audio fixed...

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2021 72:37


    I've been wanting to do an informal conversational format for a while, and who better to start with than my good friend, Inga, who is passionate about agricultural and the myriad of issues that interconnect. Let me know if you enjoy this sort of format.

    #2-1 Technology Unfettered

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 65:33


    Technology is anything but neutral. And yet we swim in it like fish in water. Best we take a step back and reconsider exactly what we get out of technology and what it takes away from us.

    #11 Morality Of The Single Variable

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 53:57


    A lateral approach to nutrition.

    #10 A Philosophy of Pleasure

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2019 53:19


    Some question why taste is included in the web of sustainability. Rather than just a cherry on top, I see pleasure as essential to the whole endeavor of regenerative agriculture.

    #9 Local & Labels

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 26:52


    Most rural agricultural communities have suffered the same fate as soils and African countries at the mercy of foreign aid. Supporting local is part of the antidote by buffering the constant flooding of the market and revitalizing the infrastructure that supports appropriately-scaled agriculture.

    # 8 A Web Of Issues; Animal Welfare (mostly)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2018 40:26


    In order to remain successful and regenerative at the same time, a farm must keep a number of issues synergistically in tension. Championing one at the expense of others typically results in a warped operation. Big thanks to Natasha Shannon who is now my coach and editor.

    # 7 When Organic Makes The Grade pt 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2018 39:42


    Helping is an art. And when done improperly, can cause great harm and foster dependency. What applies to aid in Africa has pertinence to ameliorating soil when vegetable farming. Appropriate inputs are vital, but so is appropriate scale.

    #6 When Organic Makes The Grade pt 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2018 32:43


    I eat a lot of organic vegetables. Boy do I eat those veggies. Then why do I insist on bringing up the 'dark' side of vegetable operations? In order to distinguish the baby from the bathwater, I discuss the difficult hurdles vegetable growers, as well as grain growers, face in order to meaningfully call their agriculture regenerative.

    #5 Beyond Mitigation (Can Your Beans Do That?)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2018 30:16


    Highlighting the shortcomings of approaching answers simply through mitigation.

    #4 Waste Not

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 41:35


    In which I zip through a ridiculously simplified history of Western philosophy, and then address the most over-looked feedback loop of them all.

    #3 Information Highways

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 35:00


    Behind the scenes, systems are maintained by exchange of information at the micro level.

    #2 Eating Is Nature's Currency

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 27:35


    Eating our way back to environmental health.

    #1 A Tale Of Two Paradigms

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 37:34


    Introduction and defining terms in the context of how I understand the difference between conventional-industrial farming and regenerative or sustainable agriculture.

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