Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Grove's podcast.

I've been really thinking a lot lately and considering the relationship we have with our planet and the soil. And as I learn more and more

about, you know, things like our microbiome and the biome. And, you know, if you haven't listened to

the episode I did with Zach Bush, it was just incredible, the perspective to see how we treat our

planet and how there's so many microorganisms working for us and how the

mycelium network works. And if you haven't checked out any of Paul Stammett's work, you know,

he talks about how one of the largest living organisms on the planet is actually a mycelium

network in the Pacific Northwest. That is, I believe he said,

over 600 football fields in size. So you think about that. Like what we don't see that's below the

earth, that the soil is getting all these things into these nutrients into the food that we grow.

And when we use things like glycos fade and AKA Roundup, when we use things like

that, we are damaging the soil that we are trying to squeeze everything we can from Mother Nature.

And we know in any relationship when we try to suck it dry, when we try to squeeze it, when we

try to take so much, we deplete it, we exhaust it, we damage it.

Because there's not a mutuality, there's not a, you know, the earth gives to me, I give back

to the earth, you know, and that's such a practice. And what I'm learning, you know, to have more

reverence for the planet to, I have this desire,

Kylie and I, to start to grow our own food.

You can really feel the need for us to get back into community to touch the land to experience

what it means to be in a dance with the earth.

And it gives to us in so many ways. And, you know,

in the most ways, we are takers. And we do everything we can to maximize production, et cetera,

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