374. Soil Health, Food Quality, and Holiday Recipes with Molly Chester

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Molly Chester sees food as a celebration — from when the seed is sown to the holiday table is set. In this episode, Jeff and Molly discuss why the nutritional quality of food is directly related to the health of the soil, and how that principle became the guiding philosophy behind Apricot Lane Farms.

In this episode we cover:
0:10:02 – Biodiversity
0:10:54 – Seasonality
0:12:13 – Food for Healing
0:13:05 – Nutrient Density
0:14:54 – Soil Health
0:18:24 – Biodynamic Farming
0:25:04 – No-till
0:34:11 – Rotational Grazing
0:36:23 – Symbiotics
0:52:20 – Carbon Sequestration
1:00:51 – Holiday Recipes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Today on the show, I welcome Molly Chester.
0:15.5	In 2010, Molly was a private chef in Los Angeles when she had this realization.
0:29.5	The nutrient density of food is directly correlated with the nutrient density of the soil in which it is grown.
0:36.1	So, in her quest to cook the most nutritious food, she and her husband, John, made the obvious choice.
0:39.2	They started a farm. Now, initially, they were looking for a modest 10 acres. And what they ended up with was Apricot Lane Farms, a 234-acre
0:47.7	farm in Moore Park, California. Over the last 10 years, Molly and John have transformed this conventional farm into a regenerative
0:56.5	biodynamic paradise with 75 different kinds of fruits and vegetables, 18 different species
1:02.8	of avocados, and free-range chickens, cattle, and sheep.
1:06.9	But they weren't just farming plants and animals.
1:10.4	They were also farming the soil, bringing packed, arid, dead soil back to life.
1:18.1	Their extraordinary journey was shared with the world in the award-winning documentary, The Biggest Little Farm.
1:25.5	Now, with a plethora of nutrient-rich ingredients at her fingertips, Molly has
1:30.5	penned a stunning cookbook, a celebration of organic, local, and seasonal recipes, the Apricot
1:38.6	Lane Farms Cookbook. Now, in our conversation, Molly and I discussed the regenerative techniques that brought apricot
1:45.8	lane's soil back to life. She recounts the highs and the lows of this process. And we probe
1:52.0	the Tao of farming, the process of observing nature and aligning with its course. And of course,
1:59.7	Molly recommends delectable seasonal recipes from her new
2:03.7	cookbook. Now, if you're interested in courses about regenerative farming, permaculture, and
2:09.6	soil health with teachers like Kiss the Grounds, Finney and Makepeace, Dr. Zach Bush and Paul Hawkin,
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