285) Loren Cardeli: Dismantling injustices in the food system and building farmer autonomy
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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About Loren Cardeli:
Loren Cardeli is the co-founder and Executive Director of A Growing Culture (Instagram: @agrowingculture; Facebook: @agrowingculture), a 501(c)3 nonprofit advancing a culture of farmer autonomy and agroecological innovation.
A Growing Culture is a farmer-centric organization that believes the key to sustainability lies in returning small-scale farmers back to the forefront of agriculture. As part of this growing movement, Loren and his colleagues promote farmer-led research, extension, and outreach, helping to create sustainable, self-driving futures.
Song featured in this episode: Only the Truth by Johanna Warren
Green Dreamer with Kamea Chayne is a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, additional resources, and newsletter on our website: www.greendreamer.com
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
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| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:54.8 | You know, I think we all have a vision for a better food system, |
| 1:02.1 | for a more sustainable food system. |
| 1:04.1 | I guess what a growing culture believes is that the only way to do that is to address power. |
| 1:10.0 | Is that the, our relationship to the environment is a reflection of our relationship to society. |
| 1:16.6 | Hey, it's Kamea Shane and this is Green Dreamer, a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing, eco-regeneration, and true abundance |
| 1:29.9 | and wellness for all. This is a community-backed show, so as we enter the new year, we kindly ask |
| 1:36.3 | for your direct support if you can at patreon.com slash greendreamer or through purchasing our |
| 1:42.7 | fundraising planners at greendreamer.com slash shop. |
| 1:46.5 | This episode, I'm honored to introduce you to Lauren Cardelli, the founder of the nonprofit |
| 1:52.3 | a growing culture. Knowing that farmers should be at the forefront of agriculture and the future of |
| 1:57.9 | food, they work to promote farmer-led agroecology, and protect their |
| 2:02.5 | autonomy and rights to shape their own food systems. |
| 2:06.2 | Now, let me just encourage you to set aside some dedicated time for this one. |
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