199: Harmonious living

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sadly, modern living is often grossly out of balance with nature, resulting in poor health, poor soil health, biodiversity loss, and trauma to indigenous communities.We are decidedly not living harmoniously with the world. We’ve cleared 2/3 of the earth’s surface and killed one billion species.

How can we restore nature’s balance? And what can we learn from Aboriginal Australians’ way of life?

Dr. Geraldine McGuire has spent the better part of her life restoring a rainforest in in North Queensland, Australia. She is an environmental and agricultural scientist, and the founder and director of Rainforest Bounty.

As a scientist, and as a human being, she has grown in her understanding of what it means to live harmoniously with the planet and with people. In today's conversation she reflects on the urgency to live differently. She talks about what she's learned from life in the rainforest and from the original inhabitants of the area. She describes plants and fruits native to the region, and mixed-species farming, an indigenous practice that has often been overlooked.

Restoring humanity through restoring the earth is a concept from the Aboriginal community that she has embraced. And she guides us all on how to incorporate this approach into our day-to-day lives.

For more on Rainforest Bounty, visit their website here.

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0:00.0	No people came here. They came from England. They were home sick. They were wanting their own food so they brought their own foods from from England that turned out to be you know here, rabbits and foxes.
0:14.6	And they also wanted the food that they felt comfortable with,
0:18.4	that they had grown up with so wheat and potatoes and sugar and flour. And so that's what that. and rather than coming and looking with an open mind at what was here and respecting the culture that was already here and trying to understand how people had lived harmoniously for such a long time in this quite
0:44.8	quite difficult and challenging country.
0:48.8	From the Westernin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for
0:57.8	wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. We are your source for
1:02.4	scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
1:07.0	Hey everybody, I'm your host Total of Radagore. This is episode 199 and our guest
1:18.0	today is Dr Gerald D McGuire. She is the managing director and founder of Rainforest Bounty in North Queensland, Australia.
1:25.8	Geraldine is an environmental scientist, and she has spent the last 20 years working on Rainforest
1:31.0	restoration in Queensland. In the Rainforest Restoration in Queensland.
1:32.8	In the rainforest she farms and harvests indigenous fruits.
1:36.6	She sees her work as part of a mission
1:39.1	to help restore humanity by restoring the Earth.
1:42.0	In our conversation today, she emphasizes the urgency of this mission,
1:46.0	and she explains how we can be a part of it wherever we live.
1:49.0	She also sheds light on the history and diet of the Aboriginal people.
1:54.2	And she explains how we can learn from their philosophy of harmonious living.
1:59.0	Before we dive into the conversation, a quick shout out to our sponsor.
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