Ep. 98 The Agricultural Crisis with Ryland Engelhart
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am joined by Ryland Engelhart. Ryland is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kiss the Ground and is the producer of Kiss The Ground the Movie on Netflix. He has spent the last 15 years as an entrepreneur and love-activist, working in hospitality and building a family business of organic plant-based restaurants called Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre in Southern CA. He is also a co-creator of the award-winning, transformational documentary film, “May I Be Frank.” He is a catalyst of possibility with an infectious passion for life. He is a public speaker and community organizer and works to inspire more "love & gratitude" in his organizational culture and culture at large. He speaks on sacred commerce, gratitude, love as an inside job, 10 tools for building community, and regeneration, and is the host of Kiss the Ground's "We Can Do This Podcast.”
We dive into the following topics…
- Rylands work on the Kiss The Ground the Movie
- The benefits of nature on wellbeing and livelihood
- The effects of climate change on wildfires and other natural disasters
- How carbon actually functions in the natural world and its connection to global warming
- The benefits of regenerative agriculture
- The United States’ cultural approach to the agricultural industry and the harmful effects of these practices
- The connection between soil health, plant health, and civilization health
- How you can support the regenerative agricultural and soil health movements
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR Media Production. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
| 0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
| 0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, |
| 0:18.2 | seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine, |
| 0:21.8 | or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness, |
| 0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. |
| 0:28.8 | Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
| 0:33.0 | So are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:39.7 | A three-minute video that was really telling people the way that the carbon cycle worked, |
| 0:45.6 | and that the way that we could use agriculture as a to arguably go from the most destructive |
| 0:51.7 | system on the planet to the industry that could become not just a neutral carbon neutral |
| 0:57.9 | industry, but actually could be the the great redeemer, the one that could actually turn the |
| 1:02.8 | clocks back and draw that carbon down. |
| 1:07.9 | That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Ryland Engelhart, and before I get into |
| 1:15.0 | Ryland's background, I want to take a quick minute to tell you guys a story. |
| 1:19.7 | Most of you are probably like Alexis. |
| 1:22.6 | What does recovering from reality have to do with climate change and have to deal with healing |
| 1:29.1 | our planet? And maybe after you hear this story, it will make sense. |
| 1:35.1 | So it was back in the earlier 2000s, and Evan and I had just gotten married. We were little babes, |
| 1:45.2 | and Evan was starting Allo House back then. It was called Acadia with his co-founders and partners. |
| 1:55.5 | And about a year into our business, we found this amazing piece of property in Malibu that was on |
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