Episode 116: Restoring Water Cycles and Ecosystems with Alpha Lo

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Alpha Lo runs the Climate Water Project and is Co-founder of Regenerative Water Alliance. He's also a water researcher, writer, and podcaster. With a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of natural systems, Alpha advocates for rewilding initiatives and holistic land management practices to address environmental challenges. Through collaboration and education, Alpha works to promote sustainable solutions that enhance soil health, water retention, and ecosystem resilience.

In this episode, Alpha and John discuss:

The importance of rewilding and reintegrating keystone species into ecosystems
The concept of the "small water cycle" and its influence on atmospheric water movement
The need for collaboration among scientists, farmers, governments, and communities to address environmental challenges
The impacts of groundwater depletion

Additional Resources
To follow the Climate Water Project and Alpha's work, visit https://substack.com/@climatewaterproject

About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it.

Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.

Support For This Show & Helping You Grow
Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.

AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most.

AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.

Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide.

Learn more about AEA's regenerative programs and products: https://www.advancingecoag.com

VIDEO: To learn more from John Kempf about regenerative agriculture, watch this conversation between John and three AEA grower partners about how regenerative agriculture is changing lives and conventional farming: https://youtu.be/n9U6GwbYPDk

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome to the regenerative agriculture podcast. This is John Kempth, and I have
0:07.0	been looking forward to this conversation that we're about to have today for a long time.
0:12.0	One of the challenges that I have, there are so many great conversations that I want to have and so many people that I want to talk to,
0:19.0	that sometimes things get delayed much further than I expect they will.
0:23.2	Those of you who have been listening for a while, you'll remember that somewhere in the
0:26.5	first 20 episodes or so of the show, I interviewed Gerald Pollack and Walter Yenney, and we had
0:33.4	some very interesting conversations about how water behaves and how water moves in ecosystems
0:39.8	at an ecosystem level and the impact that that can have. And this is a topic I've been wanting
0:45.2	to get back to for some time. And because we often have this conversation around how we can
0:53.8	improve our farms and our soils resilience to
0:58.3	climactic extremes, to water extremes. But I think collectively we don't appreciate enough
1:03.6	the fact that we can actually have an impact on the climate and we can change the climate
1:08.9	in a significant way is when we begin working
1:11.1	together collectively and one of the innovators and researchers whose work I have greatly
1:18.1	admired in this space is alpha low alpha has perhaps more than anyone else that I know of
1:23.9	brought together in a coherent and cohesive way,
1:27.7	the science and the information available in the space
1:32.5	around how water influences climate
1:36.3	and how we can manage water and the small water cycle
1:39.9	and the overall ecosystem.
1:41.7	So Alpha, thank you for joining us here on the show.
1:43.9	I've been looking forward to this discussion.
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