104) Using aquaponics to scale sustainable production of medical cannabis with Green Relief's Warren Bravo
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
How do aquaponics work and how can this be used to support a more sustainable future in agriculture? What are some environmental issues from the medical cannabis industry that we should know, and how can we best support it to move in a healthier direction?
Sharing his wisdom here is Warren Bravo, the co-founder and CEO of Green Relief. You'll hear about how he pivoted from leading his family business to become the largest cement contracting company in Canada to co-establishing his licensed medical cannabis company; how he developed their aquaponic system to be able to scale sustainable production of the plant; how sterile systems like hydroponics compare to aquaponics and soil-based growth; and more. Let's dive in.
HIGHLIGHTS:
[7:00] How Warren got involved with the medical cannabis industry and sustainable agriculture.
[11:55] Warren: "I learned a long time ago not to sweat over things I can't control."
[12:41] What aquaponics are and how they work.
[15:35] Kamea: "What do we know about the difference between plants or crops grown from sterile systems like hydroponics compared to ones with rich micro-biotic populations?"
[19:05] Warren's biggest struggle in growing Green Relief.
[24:22] Warren shares how to support the medical cannabis industry to be more sustainable and more generally, how to champion sustainable agriculture going forward.
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| 0:54.5 | We are one of the most cost-effective producers in Canada and still using very sustainable |
| 0:59.2 | methods of growing. |
| 1:01.0 | If you're not using or have an eye on sustainability over the next number of decades, you're |
| 1:05.4 | going to be a dinosaur in agriculture. |
| 1:07.3 | It doesn't matter who you are, how you're growing, you have to be better than what you're |
| 1:11.1 | doing now. How do aquaponics work? And how can this be used to support a more sustainable |
| 1:19.0 | future in agriculture? What are some environmental issues from the medical cannabis industry |
| 1:24.9 | that we should know? And how can we best support it to move |
| 1:28.1 | in a healthier direction? |
| 1:30.5 | That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
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