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The only thing more chilling than reports of cattle mutilations is reports of human mutilations. Generally thought to be restricted to farm animals, the phenomena of unexplained mutilations is far more indiscriminate and wide spread than the government would want you to know. We discuss the dark world of this phenomena and hear reports of whale, seal, and even zoo mutilations. We consider the claims of some of a global cover up and learn of its suggested association with the Venusian conspiracy and failed ET negotiations. Then for our Plus+ members we continue our look at the instance of geological triangles and their association with places of power. We hear the story of a man who stumbled across a divine blueprint for humanity and discovered how the measurable energy in ancient temples can induce altered states of consciousness and grants us access to other realities. Check out our latest MU merchandise in our store! Links The Mysterious Circling Sheep and Other Strange Circling Animals and People Millions of Animals, Insects and Birds Are Suddenly Walking in Circles Around the World – Nobody Knows Why A Mysterious Creature Killing Cattle in Colorado Leaves No Tracks “Non-Human” Creature Mutilates Horse in Ohio - Bigfoot, Dogman, Alien or Something Else? Flushing Meadow Zoo - UFOs & Animal Mutilations A Mysterious and Frightening Account of a UFO and a Human Mutilation From Black Helicopters to Supernatural Helicopters Linda Moulton Howe John Lear Butch Witkowski Lectures on UFO related Human Mutilation David Cayton, the APFU and Corkscrew Seal Mutilations MU 17.10 - Plus+ Extension Strange Harvest discussion Plus+ Extension The extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE. The divine blueprint: Temples, Power Places, and the global plan to shape the human soul. The Star Mirror A Search in Secret Egypt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maree Thomson is the Managing Director for Hidden Harvest, a local food waste organisation. In this episode Maree talks through their advocacy work with Hidden Harvest, transforming the problem of food waste into delicious opportunities and serving up tasty insights into how we can cook up positive change in our kitchens at home. For all things Hidden Harvest, visit and connect with their Newsletter (+ volunteering opportunities)Instagram Facebook page & group (share your food waste triumphs, questions and knowledge)LinkedInYou can also connect with Maree via their Linked In profile. CONTACT USSend us your thoughts or questions about the episode or the podcast in generalVia Instagram @fromfoodiesinthefieldVia Twitter @foodies_fieldVia email foodiesinthefield@outlook.comAnd we'd love it if you left a review of the podcast wherever you're listening from. CREDITSHost: Sophie Wright-PedersenWith thanks to Maree Thomson for their time and thoughtsThe Foodies in the Field podcast would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast was made, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, as well as the lands from where Maree was speaking and where you may be listening from today. We pay respects to elders both past and present and acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were the first foodies of this nation. Support the show

In this episode, Pastor Kyle Popineau teaches how the body of Christ works together to bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. He explains that every interaction we have with another person has the ability to plant the seed of the gospel in someone's heart. However, it could be any length of time, possibly years, before that seed bears fruit. We might not get to see the Harvest of the seeds we plant, but we all of a part to play when it comes to bringing people to the Lord. Bible Verses Mentioned: 2 Corinthians 9:10-13 John 4:35 Quotes: "If God started something in your life stay put until he finishes it." Whether you are new to being a Christian or you grew up in the church we would love to hear from you and get to know you! Connect with us through our website https://legacychurch.online/connect.   If you like this podcast please rate and comment.   Website: https://legacychurch.online/ Give: https://legacychurch.online/give Facebook: https://facebook.com/legacychurchtustin Instagram: https://instagram.com/legacychurchtustin

Message: A Hidden Harvest Scripture: Galatians 6:9 St. Matthews Baptist Church Williamstown, NJ 08094 Dr. Raymond M. Gordon Sr. Senior Pastor I do not own the rights to this music #JesusChristIsLord #TotallyCommitted #RTD We are asking everyone to remain committed to prayer, and faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ in paying your tithes either online at www.stmatthewsbc.org. click on giving payments then click on donations, tithes and offerings or Mobile/Text Text your amount to 856.878.2596 or by Mailing to: P.O. Box 817 , Williamstown NJ 08094

Message: A Hidden Harvest Scripture: Galatians 6:9 St. Matthews Baptist Church Williamstown, NJ 08094 Dr. Raymond M. Gordon Sr. Senior Pastor I do not own the rights to this music #JesusChristIsLord #TotallyCommitted #RTD We are asking everyone to remain committed to prayer, and faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ in paying your tithes either online at www.stmatthewsbc.org. click on giving payments then click on donations, tithes and offerings or Mobile/Text Text your amount to 856.878.2596 or by Mailing to: P.O. Box 817 , Williamstown NJ 08094

Message: A Hidden Harvest Scripture: Galatians 6:9 St. Matthews Baptist Church Williamstown, NJ 08094 Dr. Raymond M. Gordon Sr. Senior Pastor I do not own the rights to this music #JesusChristIsLord #TotallyCommitted #RTD We are asking everyone to remain committed to prayer, and faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ in paying your tithes either online at www.stmatthewsbc.org. click on giving payments then click on donations, tithes and offerings or Mobile/Text Text your amount to 856.878.2596 or by Mailing to: P.O. Box 817 , Williamstown NJ 08094

Message: A Hidden Harvest Scripture: Galatians 6:9 St. Matthews Baptist Church Williamstown, NJ 08094 Dr. Raymond M. Gordon Sr. Senior Pastor I do not own the rights to this music #JesusChristIsLord #TotallyCommitted #RTD We are asking everyone to remain committed to prayer, and faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ in paying your tithes either online at www.stmatthewsbc.org. click on giving payments then click on donations, tithes and offerings or Mobile/Text Text your amount to 856.878.2596 or by Mailing to: P.O. Box 817 , Williamstown NJ 08094

Kenya Miles balances farming, teaching, community-building, and her own artwork. Besides cultivating madder, indigo, and other botanical colors, she grows awareness of natural dyes, serving as an artist-in-residence at Maryland Institute College of Art and teaching workshops to aspiring dyers and farmers alike. Despite full days farming and teaching, she launched the ambitious Blue Light Junction in 2020 as a natural dye studio, alternative color lab, retail space, dye garden, and educational facility in central Baltimore. She has a deep love of indigo (both the color and her son, who shares the name), but she also finds peace in growing naturally colored cotton and connection in the tannin/iron chemistry often known as mud dyeing. In this episode, she talks about her growing roots in Baltimore and her love of exploring the world. This episode is sponsored by WEBS - America's Yarn Store.

In this episode you are going to get a bunch of different kinds of stories that will get us thinking about how our health and wellbeing is influenced and affected by others... and vice versa.The stories in this episode are:1. That Electricity: about frenemies and Tae Kwan Doh2. Gettin' on the Radio: Local ABC Radio host Lindsay McDougal got some of our crew on to his Drive program to talk about our podcasts, so we decided to return the favour and pop him in our show3. Billy Cart Champion: about a girl who decides to go in the Billy Cart Derby. She wants to win... sure... but she also has some other reasons to go in the race...4. Good Game/Bad Game: where we talk about video games5. Hidden Harvest: where we find out about an organisation that runs activities focused on food, people and the environment6. One of the Team: about the beautiful things that can happen when people keep others in mind... 

Evidence-based Policy relies on strong data and measurements. So if you want to improve a development target like nutrition, you need to be able to measure that. But with fisheries and aquaculture, we often don't have the metrics we need to make sound policy decisions. This podcast is a part of a series on fisheries and nutrition and a movement to bring fisheries into international food policy and programming.   Interview Summary   Welcome to the Leading Voices in Food podcast. I'm Sarah Zoubek, associate director of the World Food Policy Center at Duke University. My co-host today is World Food Policy Center alum and Michigan State University, fisheries social scientist Abigail Bennett.   We've got another full house of guests today with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's ecologist and epidemiologist, Chris Golden and fisheries planning analyst, Nicole Franz at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.   So I'll just jump right in, garbage in and garbage out, is what I often hear researchers say when referring to making decisions based on bad data or essentially no data. In your view, what are some of the most important data and information gaps for fisheries and aquaculture, and then subsequently for developing policy that promotes their contributions to food and nutrition security.   Chris - One of the most interesting things is that as a society, we still don't know who is eating what and where. So we have all of this data on food production around the world. We have data on trade in many cases, but we don't really know who's eating things. What types of food they're eating, why they're eating it. And so all of these data are essential for us to understand food behaviors, nutritional status, and the emergence of sustainable food systems. Thinking about aquatic foods, we also have these same types of issues. Consumption data is really patchy. We also really don't understand how food is being distributed geographically within a nation by socioeconomic status, age group, or gender dynamics, we really struggle to understand how policies that increase aquatic food production or environmental changes that might shock aquatic food production, might have downstream effects on people's lives.   Nicole - Chris, you already pointed out really crucial gaps. So I would just like to compliment with two more. And the first relates to the nutritional value of diverse types of aquatic foods. Aquatic foods provide micronutrients and essential fatty acids, and obviously in a very different way between these different products. The nutritional value of a white fish filet is very different from the nutritional value of a portion of small dried fish that is consumed whole. And this small dried fish for example, is particularly important as part of the diet of large amounts of people, particularly in Africa, but also in Asia. So better understanding those nutritional values of the different aquatic food products can really make a major difference in ensuring that those who are most in need have access to highly nutritious and aquatic foods. For example, one way to use that knowledge and apply that information is through targeted school feeding programs.   A second data and information gap relates to the origin of aquatic food supplies. We often talk about catch about the production volume but there's less information currently available on the underlying production system. So who is catching that fish and what species is produced by what kind of production system. National catch statistics are usually not differentiating for example between large scale and small scale fisheries. But knowing these underlying production systems is really of crucial importance to inform food security and nutrition sensitive policies. Small-scale fisheries for example, they tend to fish a larger variety of species than industrial fisheries. And this variety then also tends to be consumed while what is coming from industrial fisheries, a good part of the catch is often not used for human consumption.   In 2012, the World Bank, FAO and WorldFish worked together on a study that was called Hidden Harvest: The Global Contribution of Capture Fisheries. And in that study, it emerged that half of the global catch in developing countries is in fact produced by small scale fisheries. Even more importantly, the study found that between 90 and 95% of the small scale fisheries landings are destined directly for human consumption. So this really provides a strong justification to understand what the underlying production system is, because it has policy implications.   Abigail - Nicole I'd like to ask you a little bit more about the Illuminating Hidden Harvest study that you mentioned and the kinds of data and metrics it uses to understand the contributions of small scale fisheries in particular to food and nutrition security.   Nicole - Thanks Abby. In fact, the Illuminating Hidden Harvest study was inspired by the 2012 Hidden Harvest study. It is expanding the scope to better capture the nutrition and food security aspects in relation to small scale fisheries. So we're partnering with WorldFish and with Duke University for the production of this Illuminating Hidden Harvest study. And this is an attempt to contribute to closing, or maybe at least narrowing some of the current data and information gaps by providing more evidence on how small scale fisheries in particular contributes to sustainable development. The methods we have developed consists in data that we collected from 58 countries and territories. We also have submitted a survey that was replied to by over 100 countries, and we're also drawing on existing global databases. So we're combining all of this information in order to better understand the contribution of small scale fisheries to sustainable development.   One of the things we're doing in the nutrition work is building on work that was conducted by Christina Hicks from Lancaster University to model the nutrient content from fish. This is also an attempt to model nutrient content more widely, and this should be helping to value catch in terms of nutrition rather than only in terms of economic value. The catches from small scale fisheries are really very valuable in terms of nutrient richness, especially in terms of calcium of iron and zinc. And these are three nutrients that are often lacking in the diets in particular in low and middle-income countries. So these findings are incredibly important from a policy standpoint because they're showing the need to secure small-scale fisheries production systems in the context of growing competition over access to water in coastal areas, but it really underlines the need to maintain those important food production systems that are servicing so much nutrients to in particular, the most vulnerable and marginalized parts of populations.   Within the Hidden Harvest study, we're also using an indicator of household proximity to fisheries to understand better how the consumption of fish supports the nutritional benefits of the consumers. And this has really helped to illuminate how important fisheries are for the diets, especially for some groups within the population, including children between six and 24 months, which is really critical window for nutrition. So having access to affordable nutritious aquatic food is fundamental and using this indicator of household proximity to fisheries, has really helped us to visualize how the benefits from small scale fisheries are distributed within a country.   Abigail - Thanks, Nicole, that's really exciting. How can listeners access the results when they're available or keep up with the study as it progresses?   Nicole - We have a website and we're also sending out newsletter and we're sharing how the study is progressing. And we are planning to release a study at the end of the year, and it will obviously be available online on the pages of the three three partner organizations, FAO, WorldFish and Duke University.   Sarah - Chris, you had mentioned various databases. Can you explain a little bit more how that's filling the data gaps for diet and nutrient considerations for fisheries and aquaculture? What are we measuring here?   Chris - There are so many different types of databases in different parts of the world being produced by different users and all of them are so important, particularly in the ways that they can be used together. I'm going to list the ones that I've used in my own work or am aware of. The Global Nutrient Database is jointly produced by FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization) and IHME (the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation). And it produces an integrated nutrient supply estimate for all foods that are produced with the expectation that they are being consumed at the national level. And so you have consumption data that is then matched under nutrient composition tables to understand approximately the nutrient supply at the national level. If you do some modeling to estimate how those national supplies are being consumed at sub national level across age and sex groups, you can actually make estimates of nutrient deficiencies at the national level. This becomes really important in terms of targeting what types of food interventions or nutritional interventions need to be undertaken at national scales.   There's also something called the Global Dietary Database based at Tufts University that has aggregated most of the world's 24 hour recall data considered to be the gold standard for dietary assessment and has aggregated all data that was conducted in nationally representative ways, I think it's for more than 80 countries, to understand how food items are consumed, how they're distributed sub nationally. And so the information within that, that allows us to have an idea of how the Global Nutrient Database might be disaggregated at sub-national scales.   There's also a database called GENuS, Global Expanded Nutrient Supply Database. This is a unique database in that it is completely open access, it can be found online in the Harvard Dataverse and it also produces nutrient supply estimates that uses the FAOs food balance sheet data, and then assigns nutrient composition data to the food balance sheet data and corrects for ways in which production might actually be translated into consumption.   The last thing that I'll mention is that we have recently developed something called the Aquatic Food Composition Database. We noticed how important the diversity of production systems of species, of the parts of fish that people were consuming and how little we knew about the nutrient value of those different parts of fish. And we went through a systematic scoping review of all of the data that was available in the peer reviewed literature. We went through all of the national food composition tables, and we wove that together into one integrated database and we called it the Aquatic Food Composition Database. And this has more than 3000 different aquatic food species, inclusive of both plant and animal source foods, an entire suite of different nutrients. From iron, zinc, individual fatty acids, protein, vitamin A, vitamin B12, etc. And then also classifies data based on whether it was wild, farmed, what geographical region it was produced in, and the part of the fish that is being tested. So whether it's the filet, the liver, a whole fish, whether it's dried or fresh. So any processing that is involved before the nutrient analysis was done. I think with all of these different methods, all of these different databases, putting together all of these data and disparate parts, and these unconnected databases will be incredibly important to understanding how we can create more efficient, more sustainable and more nutritious food systems.   Abigail - Chris and Nicole, you both laid an amazing amount of work out on the table. And it's really exciting because it does seem like the field is inching closer to being able to connect some of those dots and do some triangulation on some areas where there's some uncertainty and data gaps. And so yeah, I do want to circle back around to this initial question that we posed, which is so what is the significance of this work collectively for policymaking? What does this data enable us to measure about fisheries and agriculture and what are some of the implications for making better policy?   Chris - I think one of the things to look at is the way that the aquaculture industry is really revolutionizing feed. We know that aquatic foods on average are so much more sustainable and have a much lighter environmental footprint than a vast array of different forms of animal source foods. So when we put it in that context, to think about the way in which feed products that go into agriculture, which is the dominant form of environmental impact for most of them and the way that they're being completely transformed by these interesting tech companies, to look at ways that we can use plant feeds with adopted or generated nutrient profiles that really improve the ultimate end product of nutrition. I think that that is something to definitely keep a lookout for, that will have incredible policy impact in terms of developing sustainable food systems.   And so one of the things that my team has been looking at is the degree to which fisheries management and specifically marine protected areas, could actually serve as a nutritional intervention. Conservation as a process could actually be not only a biodiversity and an environmental intervention, but also a public health intervention. And so the idea that a marine protected area could rehabilitate a fishery, provide spillover and increasing access to seafood to adjacent communities, is something that I think is so exciting to really reframe that mentally. And then to see if we can actually quantify the benefits of conservation to human health.   Abigail - And Chris does that serve as even an additional justification for fisheries conservation? Is it useful in that sense as well to kind of reframe these things like that?   Chris - I think so, absolutely. I think the degree to which we can think of all of these different sectors as serving multiple different purposes of the resource. And so to think of fisheries exclusively in an economic sense, really undermines so much of its true value and might lead to mismanagement from a fisheries management standpoint.   Abigail – Nicole, I want to turn it over to you and ask the same question. What types of policies do you think might emerge from a lot of the work in filling data and information gaps?   Nicole - I fully agree with what Chris just mentioned, and I think hopefully one of the major results of better data and information is that there's more integrated analysis across different policy domains, such as fisheries and nutrition. It would really allow for more coherence also across new policies. For example, these broader livelihood dimensions that are coming from the fisheries are really emerging and are valued. So by having this data, the fishery sector will really gain more recognition because currently we see often that it's overlooked, it's not taken into account even in food security and nutrition strategies in many countries. So by having more evidence about these values and these multiple functions of aquatic food within societies, this really should help better policy making and help to optimize the outcomes of these different policies that are playing together in a more coherent way.   There are a number of new global policy processes and policy instruments developing, taking aquatic foods more into consideration. One example are the Voluntary Guidelines for Food Systems and Nutrition. These Voluntary Guidelines were endorsed earlier this year and they specifically include aquatic foods. And we also see now in the preparations for the UN Food Systems Summit, that aquatic foods is entering more and more the preparatory process of this UN Food Systems Summit. They often call it blue foods instead of aquatic foods. But we see now that the attention is growing and that the number of informal dialogues and the number of events are organized around that theme because there is this recognition, that aquatic food is really part of the system and it generates all of these health benefits, which ultimately play out positively for society.   Sarah – And now one final question. What are you most excited about that's on the horizon for aquatic, or as Nicole said, blue foods?   Nicole - I'm excited about this increasing recognition of aquatic foods, beyond the fisheries policy domain. And one example, there's the UN, they just released for the first time a discussion paper specifically on the role of aquatic foods in sustainable healthy diets. I think that that is really quite important. This paper sets out a number of recommendations on how aquatic foods are part of the solution to really building resilient food systems and sustainable, healthy diets. There's one recommendation that specifically calls to democratize knowledge, data, and technologies, and to co-create meaningful knowledge and usable innovations. And that recognition of the role of data and information in this report, I think is quite powerful. And I hope that it will really kick off more work and more attention, and also the possibility to bring together all of the existing knowledge. Chris mentioned before, there are so many databases already out there, there's so much information, but this might be an opportunity to really connect all of these better and build analysis around it, that then can really be the evidence base for policy making in the future.   Chris - I completely agree with Nicole, this increasing recognition of fish and aquatic food products, it is incredibly important to elevate this recognition of how undervalued aquatic foods have been in the global food system. And one of the things I'm most excited about is not only raising the profile of that, but also integrating it and linking it directly into the terrestrial food system. We can't any longer deal with these two things as separate entities. There are enormous feedbacks in terms of the forage fish that are then used as fertilizer or feeds in terrestrial food systems, and the ways in which terrestrial food production, then leaches into affecting our rivers and lakes and coastal water systems. We can't think of these things as detached. We have to think of them as one integrative and holistic food system. Sarah - I wanted to mention, Chris, the paper that you noted is called Recognize Fish as Food in Policy Discourse and Development Funding.

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Were you aware that every year, tens of thousands of political prisoners in China are killed for their organs? Or that those organs are then sold to people needing organ transplants, but don’t want to wait? And that in China, you can even schedule the day you want your operation, effectively turning it into murder […] The post AREA 52 099: “Hidden Harvest” appeared first on Utah Podcast Network.

Were you aware that every year, tens of thousands of political prisoners in China are killed for their organs? Or that those organs are then sold to people needing organ transplants, but don’t want to wait? And that in China, you can even schedule the day you want your operation, effectively turning it into murder […] The post AREA 52 099: “Hidden Harvest” appeared first on Utah Podcast Network.

“Climate change is happening. What can we do about it? It will start with a shovel and an acorn, but we might just change the world.” Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author (and now filmmaker). She is known for her extraordinary ability to bring an understanding and appreciation of the scientific complexities of nature to the general public. "Diana Beresford-Kroeger is one of the rare individuals who can accomplish this outwardly simple but inwardly complex and difficult translation from the non-human to human realms," the renowned E.O. Wilson wrote in the forward to one of her books. “If you speak for the trees, you speak for all of nature,” says Beresford-Kroeger, one of the world's leading experts on trees who is known to have the mind of a scientist and the heart of an artist. She has studied the environmental, medicinal, nutritional, and even spiritual aspects of trees, has written about them in leading books, and on her property she maintains gardens that burst with flora and are open often to the public. Her work uniquely combines western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world.  From a very young age, she understood that she was the last voice to bring Celtic knowledge to the New World. Orphaned at age 11 in Ireland, she lived with a succession of Gaelic-speaking elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in County Cork, who took her under their wing. Over the course of three summers, she was taught the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body and soul. This included the philosophy of healing, the laws of the trees, Brehon wisdom and the Ogham alphabet, all of it rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality. Already a precociously gifted scholar, Diana found that her grounding in the ancient ways led her to fresh scientific concepts. Out of that huge and holistic vision have come the observations that put her at the forefront of her field: the discovery of mother trees at the heart of a forest; the fact that trees are a living library, have a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world; the major idea that trees heal living creatures through the aerosols they release and that they carry a great wealth of natural antibiotics and other healing substances; and, perhaps most significantly, that planting trees can actively regulate the atmosphere and the oceans, and even stabilize our climate. Told she was the last child of ancient Ireland and to one day bring this knowledge to a troubled future, Beresford-Kroeger has done exactly that.  She has published over 200 articles in magazines, journals and newspapers internationally. She is the author of several books including The Sweetness of a Simple Life (2015), The Global Forest: Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us (2010), Arboretum Borealis: A Lifeline of the Planet (2010), and A Garden for Life: The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden (2004). She has served as a scientific advisor to organizations including the Irish Woodland League, Ecology Ottawa, Hidden Harvest of Ottawa, Canadian Organic Growers, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and the Acadian Forest Research Centre and others. She has lectured widely across North America and Europe. In her latest book, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest, Beresford-Kroeger asserts that “if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts and floods.” Now she aims to spread her knowledge through feature-length films being made of her work.  In her documentary, Call of the Forest: To Speak with the Trees, Beresford-Kroeger takes viewers on a journey to the most beautiful forests of the northern hemisphere. From the sacred sugi and cedar forests of Japan, the ancient Raheen Wood of Ireland, the walnut and redwood trees of America, to the great boreal forest of Canada, Beresford-Kroeger tells us the amazing stories behind the history and legacy of these ancient forests while also explaining the science of trees and the irreplaceable roles they play in protecting and feeding the planet. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award­-winning author, says “Call of the Forest is a film of rare significance. It draws the viewer into the green world that sustains life on this planet at a crucial ecological point, and is an introduction to the work of Diana Beresford-Kroeger, one of the least known but most important people on the planet.” Beresford-Kroeger is also at the heart of an upcoming three-part series airing on PBS called The Truth about Trees. Currently she is advocating on behalf of an ambitious global "bioplan" encouraging ordinary people to develop a new relationship with nature and join together to restore the global forest. Beresford-Kroeger understood the importance of trees as a botany student in Ireland and grew her own research garden and arboretum after emigrating from Ireland to Canada. This experience helped her realize that the scientific community lacks the ability to present science to the public; it was to address the urgent needs of nature in its destruction that she began her career in writing, lecturing and broadcasting.  She worked as a research scientist at the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Department of Agriculture Electron Microscopy Centre. She was appointed a WINGS WorldQuest fellow and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, where she was named one of 25 women explorers of Canada. “What is especially impressive is her unique blend of scientific rigour and poetic eloquence. Indeed, she combines both in a very rare gift: an extraordinary ability to understand the scientific complexities of nature, but also to bring this knowledge and appreciation to the general public,” said Matthias Neufang, dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs at Carleton College, where she received an honorary degree for her work. Beresford-Kroeger is an O’Donoghue, a very ancient family in Ireland who were the Kings of Munster, a southern county in Ireland. She is the last child of this family. This family was the teachers of the kings of Ireland, even before the birth of Christ. Her immediate family wiped out when she was eleven years old, and as an orphan, she was raised in Southern Ireland by a bachelor uncle who was a noted athlete, chemist, scholar and bibliophile. He nurtured her quest for knowledge and encouraged her to read and discuss everything from Irish poetry, world religions and philosophy to physics and quantum mechanics. She attended private schools in Ireland and England, and completed her earned her bachelor’s of science honors in botany and medicinal biochemistry at University College Cork (UCC), graduating first in her year in 1963. She then completed a master of science degree at UCC in 1965. Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. She shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. She tells us why trees matter, and why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change. Diana eloquently points to us that if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts and floods. Join us in conversation with this ground-breaking and healing scientist and poet!

Chris Forbes is the logistics and demographic strategists for the church planting team for the Baptist General Conference of Oklahoma. In this episode, we talk about how organizations can do better demographic research in order to better know what kinds of churches to plant. We also talk about Chris' latest research project where his team identified and developed the spiritual profiles of non-Christians in Oklahoma in order to better mobilize church planters. Learn how your organization can do the same. Learn more about Hidden Harvest and download a free copy of the report.

Stefan Posthuma chats with Hidden Harvest founder - Berbel Franse about food waste and empowering individuals to make small changes. The post The Illawarra Cookbook: Hidden Harvest appeared first on Quicksand Food.

Stefan Posthuma chats with Hidden Harvest founder - Berbel Franse about food waste and empowering individuals to make small changes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Caroline hosts the wondrous cultivated and cultivating Diana Beresford-Kroeger who embodies the assignment before us all of wedding science and myth, that our story-telling be irresistibly beguiling. Born into a notable family of Druid scholars, orphaned at an early age, schooled in Druid lore, multiple degrees in science, dedicated to Global Forests…http://www.stuartbernstein.com/dianaberesford-kroeger.html “Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a world recognized author and scientist with a unique background in both western science and the traditional ways of aboriginal peoples and the ancient world. Orphaned in Ireland in her youth, Beresford-Kroeger was educated by elders who instructed her in the Brehon knowledge of plants and nature. She went on to study classical botany and medical biochemistry and worked as a research scientist at Ottawa University and then at the Canadian Department of Agriculture Electron Microscopy Centre, where she discovered cathodoluminescence in biological materials. From 1973 to 1982, she conducted research at the University of Ottawa physiology department in conjunction with the Ottawa Heart Institute, specializing in hemodynamics. In the early 1980s, Beresford-Kroeger embarked on a significant change in her life's work. It began with an expansion of her private research garden and arboretum: Carrigliath. Having identified an absence in the scientific community of the ability to present science to the public and the urgent need to address the degradation of nature, she began her career in writing, broadcasting and lecturing. Flowing from her research and experience at Carrigliath, Beresford-Kroeger published over 200 articles in magazines, journals and newspapers in Canada, the United States and internationally. She also published five critically acclaimed books on nature and gardening. Her books include THE SWEETNESS OF A SIMPLE LIFE, THE GLOBAL FOREST, ARBORETUM BOREALIS: A LIFELINE OF THE PLANET, ARBORETUM AMERICA: A PHILOSOPHY OF THE FOREST, and A GARDEN FOR LIFE. She has served as a scientific advisor to a number of organizations, including the Irish Woodland League, Ecology Ottawa, Hidden Harvest of Ottawa, Canadian Organic Growers, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and the Acadian Forest Research Centre and others. She has lectured widely across North America and Europe and has appeared on television and radio in Canada, the U.S., Europe and international short wave radio. For the last several decades, she has worked at Carrigliath, growing rare and endangered medicinal plants and trees. Beresford-Kroeger was inducted as a Wings Worldquest Fellow in 2010 and named one of Utne Reader's World Visionaries for 2011. In 2013, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. In 2016, CALL OF THE FOREST: THE FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF TREES, a feature film, television program and mobile app will be released. Please visit www.dianasjourney.com for more information. http://www.stuartbernstein.com/dianaberesford-kroeger.html The post The Visionary Activist Show – Caroline hosts the wondrous cultivated and cultivating Diana Beresford-Kroeger appeared first on KPFA.

The Coachella Valley is the fifth largest agricultural producer in the United States. Much of the country eats food grown from this soil. But for a variety of reasons, not every crop grown here is used. Rows and rows of perfectly good vegetables like broccoli or cauliflower are plowed over every year and completely wasted. Christy Porter, who runs Hidden Harvest, has spent more than a decade combating this problem. We talk to her about gleaning (the process of saving usable crops from being plowed under), her organization, and the world of Coachella Valley farming.

We meet up with Kat and Jay from Hidden Harvest to talk about all things collecting fruit on city property that might go bad, what the city can do better, where you can find products produced from what they saved, what to do if you have a fruit tree on your property that you can't pick anymore and so much more! So much great information! Jenn from foodiePrints talks to us about the PoutineFest and 2015 OVCC Spring & Craft Show and music from the awesome Bearshark!

We meet up with Kat and Jay from Hidden Harvest to talk about all things collecting fruit on city property that might go bad, what the city can do better, where you can find products produced from what they saved, what to do if you have a fruit tree on your property that you can't pick anymore and so much more! So much great information! Jenn from foodiePrints talks to us about the PoutineFest and 2015 OVCC Spring & Craft Show and music from the awesome Bearshark!