441: Could Your Lawn Become a Food Forest?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Most American lawns are lovely...but not exactly an efficient use of space. What if we made the most of the land, helping to turn it into a source of sustenance for our families and communities? We could use permacultural principles to understand the land and collaborate with current ecosystems to help bring about its full potential. So says guest Jim Gale of Food Forest Abundance.
On today's episode, Jim talks about how to get started with small shifts: how to decide what to plant and where to get started exactly. He also covers the importance of protecting ourselves against food shortages through better land management. And how we might cross our own mental barriers to start to explore this somewhat alternative lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise |
| 0:10.6 | Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:14.0 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:18.2 | optimal health. |
| 0:23.3 | And now here is our host and producer, Hilda Lebrata Gore. |
| 0:27.2 | Hey! |
| 0:28.2 | Hilda here! |
| 0:29.6 | What if your lawn could be a food forest? |
| 0:32.3 | Seriously, what if we could convert our lawns from a liability to an asset, a source of |
| 0:38.7 | sustenance for our families and communities? |
| 0:42.2 | This is episode 441 and this is exactly what is on the mind of our guest today, Jim Gale. |
| 0:48.9 | Jim is the CEO of Food Forest Abundance. |
| 0:52.4 | He covers a number of topics today including how to go about making this shift from lawn |
| 0:58.1 | to food forest. |
| 0:59.5 | He gets practical covering where to start, how to decide what to plant and how to propagate |
| 1:05.0 | food from items purchased in the grocery store. |
| 1:07.7 | He explains permaculture to land management approach that collaborates with natural ecosystems. |
| 1:14.0 | He also discusses how to protect ourselves from food shortages and how to overcome our |
| 1:20.3 | own internal mental obstacles that might prevent us from adopting this kind of alternative |
| 1:26.6 | lifestyle. |
| 1:27.6 | Before we get into the conversation, I want to personally invite you to come to our |
| 1:30.8 | Wise Traditions Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, October 20th to the 22nd. |
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