From Flood To Feast: How Regenerative Organic Farming Yields More Crop Per Drop with Caryl Levine & Ken Lee, founders of Lotus Foods

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Education, Society & Culture, Earth Sciences, Self-improvement, Documentary, Science

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Every culture has a different use of rice and how to grow it. Some farm practices harm our environment by damaging the soil through massive disturbances. In this episode, Caryl Levine and Ken Lee, Authors of Rice Is Life and Co-founders and Co-CEOs of Lotus Foods, explain that the future of food lies in the practice of regenerative agriculture. Minimizing the physical disturbance of soil keeps a huge amount of carbon dioxide from releasing into the atmosphere. This practice of building organic matter on the soil not only helps mitigate climate change effects but also creates a resilient environment where plants thrive, resulting in more productive yields. Tune in to this conversation and learn more from Caryl and Ken as they share more insights about the future of food and regenerative agriculture. Key takeaways from the episode:· How rice is grown using less water· Benefits of regenerative farming· Practical steps to try regenerative farming· Why Rice Is Life· The movement to fight climate change through changing methods in agriculture Guest Social Links:· Website: https://www.lotusfoods.com· Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lotusfoods/· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lotusfoods/· TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lotusfoods· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LotusFoods· Caryl Levine’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caryl-levine-a507897/· Ken Lee’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-lee-871882b/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, & share! https://caremorebebetter.com Follow us on social and join the conversation! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CareMore.BeBetter/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better Twitter: https://twitter.com/caremorebebetter Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/care-more-be-better Support Care More. Be Better: A Social Impact + Sustainability PodcastCare More Be Better answers only to our collective conscience and aims to put more good into the world. As a listener, reader, and subscriber you are part of this pod and this community and we are honored to have your support. If you can, please help finance the show: https://caremorebebetter.com/donate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes.
0:09.7	Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.
0:15.3	You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today.
0:20.1	Here's your host,orena belizzi hello fellow do go get
0:25.7	ers and friends i'm your host korena blizzy and today i'm going to do something slightly different
0:31.6	for a number of reasons if you've been listening to this podcast if you've been following me at all
0:36.7	you probably know that we've been in the midst of several challenges here on the Central Coast of California.
0:43.0	We've had all of our rain come all at once, hitting hard in December and January.
0:49.6	This resulted in flooding all over Central California.
0:53.3	You even heard about this when I talked about
0:55.4	my friend Helbard Al Cassidy's Farm and Aromas area near Watsonville. Now, all of this
1:02.6	is simply to mean I have something to share. My office flooded. And so I have been in the midst
1:10.4	of trying to piece everything back together, rip out
1:13.4	the carpets, take care of each of these things. And it's also meant that I fell a bit of behind,
1:18.9	in part because of the challenges, in part because of some personal struggles. We've also just
1:24.7	learned as I continue to produce this podcast that our younger son, who does
1:30.9	suffer from some behavioral challenges, is in fact autistic.
1:35.9	And so, as you can imagine, this is posed new stresses.
1:40.1	How do we handle this new challenge?
1:42.4	How do we help him so that he can be his best self?
1:47.0	You will likely hear some content coming through in coming weeks that are focused on what it means to be neurodivergent and how we can each be better citizens.
1:57.3	Perhaps that will even be part of the be better challenge.
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