380) Loren Cardeli: Who really feeds the world?
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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“For every $1 of aid Africa gets, $24 is taken out. We have to address something deeper, something more systemic, but we don’t want to talk about that. We want to talk about food waste, composting. Those are treating the symptoms of the disease, not the root. ”
In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Loren Cardeli, the co-founder and Executive Director of A Growing Culture, 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.
(The musical offering featured in this episode Only the Truth by Johanna Warren.)
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| 1:38.3 | You know, I think we all have a vision for a better food system, for a more sustainable food system. I guess what a grown culture believes is that the only way to do that is to address power. |
| 1:43.3 | Is that the, our relationship to the environment is a reflection of our relationship to society. |
| 1:53.4 | In this episode, we revisit our conversation first recorded in late 2020 with Lauren |
| 1:59.5 | Cardelli, the co-founder and executive director of |
| 2:02.9 | a growing culture, which is a non-profit advancing a culture of farmer autonomy and agro-ecological |
| 2:08.9 | innovation. A growing culture is a farmer-centric organization that believes that the key to |
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