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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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"I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. If it is my mission to go in at exits and come out at entrances, so be it." - Wendell Berry
The world that Robbie Vitrano and the team at Mad Agriculture is striving to create is so vastly different than the world that is, that nearly everything that they do bears certain madness. From heart to head, poetry to science, financing to markets, and soil to shelf, MadAg help farmers thrive in regenerative organic agriculture. And sure, it's a little different from our normal fare on this show, but there is lending involved and, more importantly, if we are what we eat, we'd all do well to understand how farmers are making our food as good as it can be.
You can learn more about Mad Ag at https://madagriculture.org/
Or find Robbie on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbievitrano/
You can seek me out on LinkedIn, too, where I'm open to all genuine new connections - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange - and follow the show's page while you're there.
Friends of the show include: https://www.ontap.co.za/pages/hoedspruit-store-details (for all your Hoedspruit-based bathroom needs), https://www.joinhumoni.com, and https://chaos-out-of-order.com/
Meanwhile, my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is discussed at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24
And since you like podcasts, I'm also co-create hAIghtened senses with Christo van Zyl, in which will look at the intersection between human senses and technology, especially AI-powered technology.
Keep well, Brendan
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0:00.0 | Fullum Pier is. |
0:01.2 | Being sported for choice in a Riverside food hall. |
0:03.6 | And playing with interactive art. |
0:05.1 | Tree pose with river views. |
0:06.6 | Ferry laughing at local comedians. |
0:08.3 | Kids dancing at a toddler disco. |
0:10.3 | Declaring checkmate with a nigroney. |
0:12.1 | Flat whites and river strolls. |
0:13.6 | Sampling chef ad and buy at seasonal menus. |
0:16.0 | Watching rowers go head to head. |
0:17.6 | Slowing down to enjoy what matters most. |
0:20.5 | London's most exciting new Riverside destination is now open. |
0:25.0 | Join us 20th to the 22nd of June for our opening celebration. |
0:28.8 | Visit fullumpere.com. |
0:32.7 | The ultimate goal is not to crush these guys, but to be able to walk a solution into these systems and say, |
0:38.6 | let's start to work on this together. You know, we live in a world of three billion malnourished |
0:43.9 | people. One billion are starving. Two billion are overfed with the wrong calories. But it begins |
0:50.7 | with really asking what does this land want to be? And then we develop a plan around that, make it possible for that land to be more productive with greater biodiversity, greater resilience and sustainability to it. |
1:04.6 | It drives culture. |
1:05.9 | It drives identity. |
1:08.0 | And it's a great deal of pride. |
1:09.7 | It's a great deal of community building, and people |
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