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Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

Episode 86: Regenerating Hearts and Minds, The Basis of Regenerative Agriculture with Charles Eisenstein

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Science, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences

4.7 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Charles Eisenstein is a speaker, teacher, and author. A graduate of Yale University with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, his work covers various topics, including human civilization, economics, spirituality, and ecology. His published works include "The Coronation," "The Ascent of Humanity," "Sacred Economics," "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible," and "Climate—A New Story." In the last-mentioned title, he argues that reducing environmental discourse into the single issue of global warming is a huge mistake for the environmental movement. The book focuses instead on the "Living Planet" view, envisioning what our relationship to nature might be if we saw that everything is alive, conscious, and sacred. Overall, his primary interest is exploring the boundaries of what is possible according to our received beliefs, habits, technologies, and ways of knowing.

In this conversation, John and Charles discuss:

  • What defines regeneration

  • What we need to do to embrace regenerative landscapes

  • Why the quality of our life depends on the quality of our relationships 

  • Indigenous knowledge of landscape management 

  • The understanding of what real wealth is

  • The differences between control and responsibility 

  • The Importance of exercising our capacity to create

  • The growing community and movement of regenerative farmers

To learn more about Charles Eisenstein and his work, please visit his website at https://charleseisenstein.org/ or subscribe to his substack at https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/ 

To learn more about his published work, please visit https://charleseisenstein.org/books/ 

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 is 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 their 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 around the world. Learn more about AEA's regenerative programs and products: https://www.advancingecoag.com/

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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 back to the regenerative agriculture podcast. This is John Kempth.

0:05.0

And as you know normally on this podcast or frequently, we speak about the, an agronomic orientation to regenerative agriculture.

0:15.0

What does it take to produce really healthy soil, really healthy plants, and ultimately really healthy people and farm economics. The

0:22.8

conversation I'm hoping to have today is addresses perhaps some of the

0:27.2

philosophical underpinnings and foundations of what really defines a

0:31.4

regeneration and what is the place that we need to come from within to really

0:35.6

embrace and embody regeneration of landscapes.

0:39.8

I'm really pleased and honored to have Charles Eisenstein here with me as a guest today.

0:45.2

I've admired Charles' work for quite some time.

0:48.4

And you know, Charles, I want to say thank you for being here and for being willing to share

0:52.2

your wisdom. You've done a lot of heavy lifting over the last, well, decades really, but particularly the last couple of years,

0:58.2

there's been lots of, I don't know what the right word is, insanity maybe, lots of craziness

1:03.1

in the world. And there is a need for voices of clarity and voices of thought who are able

1:09.6

to articulate what's really going on in the world from a,

1:13.6

perhaps from a spiritual perspective or a philosophical perspective of where is the place that

1:17.2

we're really coming from within. So thank you for being here. I've been looking forward to

1:20.4

this conversation. Yeah. Thank you, John, for having me on. I'm flattered and honored to be

1:26.4

on your show. You know, well, you're most welcome. I don't know if you need to'm flattered and honored to be on your show. You know, well, you're most welcome.

1:30.1

I don't know if you need to be flattered and honored. I think one of the pieces I wanted to

1:36.2

discuss with you and get your perspective on, we have, in many ways, we have, our contemporary agriculture has really drifted far away to almost 180 degrees opposite of the principles and values that attracted most of us into farming in the first place.

1:56.2

When I have conversations with growers and I ask people the question, I include myself in this. I grew up

2:02.9

on a farm. And I ask the question, what is it that really attracts us to farming? What is it that

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