266) Jeff Tkach: Connecting functional medicine and regenerative agriculture for our collective health
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Jeff Tkach is the Chief Impact Officer at Rodale Institute, which is a nonprofit that has been dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach for over 70 years.
As Rodale Institute's Chief Impact Officer, Jeff is responsible for expanding their global influence by leading the development and execution of their core strategies and overseeing opportunities for partnership and co-investment that drive positive outcomes for the institute's programs and philanthropic initiatives.
In this podcast episode, Jeff sheds light on the relationship between functional medicine and regenerative agriculture; how regenerative farming may impact our public health and social justice; and more.
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| 1:28.2 | Our job as farmers is not to produce food. I think what J.I. Rodell was saying is that our job |
| 1:34.2 | as farmers is to produce healthy people. But I think that our agricultural production systems |
| 1:39.7 | have become so divorced from this idea that we as farmers are on the front lines of human health. |
| 1:48.5 | That was Jeff Kett, the chief impact officer at Roldale Institute, which you may have heard before. |
| 1:54.6 | They are pretty well known. They're a nonprofit that has been dedicated to pioneering organic farming |
| 2:00.7 | through research and outreach for |
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