256: For the love of soil
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Healthy soil. It's not just what we need for potted plants. It's what we all need to survive. Nicole Masters, agro-ecologist and author of "For the Love of Soil," explains on today's podcast just why our health and the health of the soil are so inextricably intertwined.
She tells her personal story of how an herbicide jeopardized her health, though she did not know it at first. She goes over why monocrops are a problem (even organic monocrops), the correlation between chemical companies and pharmaceutical companies, and how personal testing meters are being developed to help us better assess the quality of our food and the health of the soil. In the end, she offers ideas to diversify and regenerate both the land, and our guts, for improved health.
Nicole's YouTube channel: Soils for Life & website: Integrity Soils
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| 0:00.0 | Our external environment is actually reflecting our internal environment and what we're doing is we've totally disrupted the gut microbiome of the planet which is soil. |
| 0:10.0 | You know if you're interested in greenhouse gases or water quality or food quality or fishery beds it doesn't matter all of this stuff comes back down to how we're managing soil. |
| 0:20.0 | And we've really just been in a chemical experiment for the last 120 years and that experiments |
| 0:26.8 | unintended consequences are now coming to the forefront and people are starting to realize, |
| 0:31.1 | well we can't keep food production like this this is not |
| 0:34.0 | how your father's always done it this is not it's not working. |
| 0:47.6 | From the Western A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:51.3 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you |
| 0:55.2 | achieve optimal health. Hey, Hilda here. Do you ever give much thought to the earth? We walk on it, raise animals on it, build |
| 1:08.9 | our houses on it, and depend on it for sustenance. But some of us might not actually give it a second thought. |
| 1:14.8 | This is an episode where we talk about why we need to. |
| 1:17.6 | The soil is in trouble, and we need to look at how we can restore its health |
| 1:21.7 | to regenerate it and cultivate it in a way that is good for the earth itself and for each of us. |
| 1:27.2 | This is episode 256 and our guest today is Nicole Masters. |
| 1:31.6 | Nicole is an independent agroacologist, educator, and the author of For the Love of Soil. |
| 1:38.0 | She is recognized as a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker on the topic of soil health. |
| 1:42.6 | But let me set something straight right here at the outset. |
| 1:45.2 | This is not a conversation for farmers. |
| 1:47.6 | It is for each of us, regardless of where we live and what our livelihood is. |
| 1:51.8 | Nicole helps us understand the part we each play in the health of soil. |
| 1:56.2 | She tells her own story and how her passion for soil health came about. |
| 2:00.3 | She discusses the toxic load that the world is bearing and how that also plays out in our health as well. |
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