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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today's episode was originally Episode-2669- 12 Really Cool Plants Inspired by Joseph Simcox & was originally first published on May, 28th, 2020. The notes below are … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox is the ” Botanical Explorer” he has traveled the world for decades documenting the world’s wild and domesticated edible plants. His work has taken him to more than 140 countries, and he and his team have led more … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox is the ” Botanical Explorer” he has traveled the world for decades documenting the world’s wild and domesticated edible plants. His work has taken him to more than 140 countries, and he and his team have led more … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox was awesome on yesterday’s show and after talking to him I looked up more of his stuff. I found this amazing 3 part garden tour on YouTube and listened to all of it and selected 12 plants inspired … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox was awesome on yesterday’s show and after talking to him I looked up more of his stuff. I found this amazing 3 part garden tour on YouTube and listened to all of it and selected 12 plants inspired … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox is the ” Botanical Explorer” he has traveled the world for decades documenting the world’s wild and domesticated edible plants. His work has taken him to more than 125 countries, and he and his team have led more … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox is the ” Botanical Explorer” he has traveled the world for decades documenting the world’s wild and domesticated edible plants. His work has taken him to more than 125 countries, and he and his team have led more … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox nos vino a platicar sobre que especies son comestibles y como tener un conocimiento mayor sobre lo que tenemos en nuestra bioregión. Joe Simcox: www.facebook.com/explorewithjoseph www.instagram.com/explorewithjosep www.explorewithjoseph.com Rancho Cacachilas: www.facebook.com/RanchoCacachilas www.instagram.com/ranchocacachilas
In this episode of Mountain Talk we're exploring approaches to agriculture as economic development in Eastern Kentucky - from a macro to micro scale. First WMMT's own Jim Webb interviews Jonathon Webb of AppHarvest about their plans to build a 30 acre high-tech greenhouse on a former mountain top removal site in Pike County, KY. Then, we hear a 2016 story produced by Benny Becker about the annual Appalachian Seed Swap featuring an interview with Joseph Simcox of Gardens Across America Project about his vision for community farm hubs in Central Appalachia to sell heirloom and rare crops to east coast markets. And finally, in 2017 Kelly Haywood interviewed Letcher County's Tim Sanders of Indian Creek Settlement Farm about his work to reclaim the family farm, and produce heritage livestock breeds to sell at local farmers markets.
Joseph Simcox is a World Food Plant Ecologist and Ethnobotanist. As a Botanical Explorer he travels the globe to identify the world’s food plant resources focusing on under-utilized crops and wild species. The basis of his work is to promote the use and cultivation of plants for food and useful components. His goal is to ensure food security and nutrition for all while developing food systems that mimic nature. Simcox asserts that the identification of wild food plants and their appropriate habitats is the first step to creating sustainable ecosystems. Simcox is an international speaker presenting at diverse conferences and symposiums around the world and introducing new perspectives on food resources, food production and the environment. He collaborates with independent growers, industry, universities, governments and non-government organizations in this worldwide effort. He has visited more than 100 countries to date for his field experience.
It seems everything in our mountain home is in a state of transition. Change can be hard, but also good. It is a time to take the bull by the horns and stop beating the dead horse — to use some commonplace phrasing. This week on Mountain News & World Report, we are looking at a few of our Traditions in Transition. What traditions are worth putting time, money, and effort toward preserving? What time honored traditions might serve us as we transition into a new economy and which ones should we release in order to make room for new thoughts and ideas? WMMT’s Kelli Haywood begins this episode asking just those questions as she explores the efforts of the Letcher County Culture Hub in introducing squaredancing to a new generation and attempting to reinvigorate the tradition in that generation’s parents and grandparents. What she found might surprise you. Be sure to let us know what you think as well by commenting. In our second story, Benny Becker attends the 4th Annual Appalachian Seed Swap and speaks with Joseph Simcox and Joyce Pinson who participate in the event. Simcox has traveled the world collecting and swapping seeds and along with Pinson believes that Appalachia can be a hub for the revival of small scale, sustainable agriculture. Not only does Simcox share some of the seeds of knowledge he’s collected from his world travels, but puts forward his idea for how Central Appalachia can use agriculture to transform our economy and reclaim our mined lands. And, to end the show, we include the story of Brian Fields as interviewed by Malcolm J. Wilson of Humans of Central Appalachia. Fields works in retraining former miners for a variety of careers. He also comes from a long line of musicians and farmers. His story illustrates how it is just second nature at times to take on tradition as part of your own identity.
Join us for a conversation, a journey into stories of the rarest seeds on earth. Joseph Simcox is the Botanical Explorer searching out rare seeds and plants all over the world. He also started a fascinating project called Gardens Across America Project that is very permaculture in how it works: he gives people extremely valuable rare seeds with the agreement that they'll mail back have the yields they get! That's just a hair on the bear when it comes to Simcox! Prepare yourself to learn about seeds!! Follow along with Joseph's travels: http://www.explorewithjoseph.com #ExploreWithJoseph Buy your own from Joseph's stash: http://www.GrowRareSeeds.com Or look for Joseph when he's in a town or city near you!!
Episode 126: Joseph Simcox is a botanical explorer, ethnobotanist, international lecturer, and expert in food plants from around the world. In this free-ranging conversation, Joseph talks about the potential that we have to transform the planet in positive ways, how we can become "Giant Enrichers", acting like the "new earthworms of the planet." Joseph shares his knowledge about resilient plants and climate change, the agriculture industrial complex, and how we can re-integrate foodways from the past into our modern food system. Of course, Joseph also talks about plants, including three that he is really excited about: Manroot, (Ipomoea leptophylla), Prairie Turnips (Pediomelum esculentum), and the Queen of the Night Cactus (Peniocereus greggii). For more information about Joseph Simcox, click here.
Something so evident yet so ignored by industrial agriculture, why agriculture in the future must use plants that are naturally adapted to their environments. In our present day world man has become so detached from nature that he imagines that he can grow wheat in parched deserts and oranges in the arctic, and while this is only a partially true statement, the fascination with gene tinkering in the laboratory with apparent obliviousness to natural forces has scientists trying to create “organisms” with super powers. The disciples of such approaches to agriculture preach of corn and rice that will withstand brutal temperatures and drought and supposedly bring humanity to food security when the thermometers pop because of climate change. Curiously, these people so intent on creating “super” plants in the laboratory, don’t seem to observe that such plants already exist in nature! E.A.S. is such a simple concept that it is almost elementary school logic, yet for all the brilliant scholars around the world, practically no worldwide cohesive effort has been directed to amassing and trialing all the food plants suited to desertic conditions. Joseph Simcox will explain his bio-adaptive approach to creating effective agriculture in the world’s dry lands, and he will lay out a plan to produce food in them in an ecologically relevant and suitable way. His basis lies in the world’s food plant flora, hundreds if not thousands of plant species around the world have been utilized for food in the deserts by indigenous peoples for millennia, now is the time he argues, to take a closer look and put these plants in the spotlight for cultivation and selection. This talk was presented live at PV1 in March 2014. Learn more about Joseph Simcox at permaculturevoices.com/b023.
Nowadays, people associate American native culture with three crops; Corn, Beans and Squash (the three sisters). According to Joe this is only the tip of the iceberg, Indigenous Americans (North of Mexico)used at least 3000 species of plants for food! Joe will unveil an amazing palette of wild edibles used by the Native Peoples that hold promise for our farms, gardens and kitchens, and show how these “forgotten” foods are legitimate heirs to a new food ecosystem. Because one of the objectives is to put practical information in the hands of practitioners, Joe will invite participants to apply to be a part of his native food revival efforts which will access and distribute rare native edible propagation stock. This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015. Learn more about Joe Simcox at permaculturevoices.com/b22
Thinking about food, ruling with it and destroying it. The next 25-50 “us” years will be critically important to the future of food. You can be on the wave of an amazing era of domestication by turning to the wilds for inspiration. A whirlwind tour of the history of food then, now and “tomorrow”. This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Joseph Simcox. Listen to more at permaculturevoices.com/podcast