Podcast Extra: Our Food Systems Should Heal the Earth with Alana Mooi, Zach Bush, MD and John Kempf
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast Extra episode, John Kempf joined an Earth Day conversation hosted by Farmer's Footprint, alongside Managing Director Alana Mooi and Founder Zach Bush, MD. Together, they explore the urgent need to regenerate our soil and food systems, emphasizing the deep connection between agriculture, human health, and the health of the planet.
The discussion highlights how food systems must be understood as a web of relationships with the Earth, and how healing the land is inseparable from healing ourselves. They offer insights into why working with nature, rather than against it, is essential for the future of our ecosystems, communities, and collective well-being.
Additional Resources
To learn more about Farmer's Footprint, please visit: https://farmersfootprint.us/
To learn more about the work of Zach Bush, MD, please visit: https://zachbushmd.com/
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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to start with some really brief introductions for our community and then we can jump right in. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, welcome everyone. |
| 0:10.0 | Joining us today here is Dr. Zach Bush, triple board certified doctor, physician whose work bridges internal medicine, |
| 0:19.0 | endocrinology and hospice care with the focus on the microbiome |
| 0:24.1 | and the deep interconnection between human and planetary health. He's also the founder of both for-profit |
| 0:31.1 | and non-profit initiatives, including farmer's footprint, all centered on the reconnection, rewilding, and regeneration. |
| 0:40.1 | We're also joined today by John Kemp, pioneering voice in regenerative agriculture and founder |
| 0:47.0 | of advancing eco-agriculture. He also serves as a board member for Farmer's Foot footprint. And John has dedicated his life to helping |
| 0:58.0 | growers restore soil health and plant vitality through studying plant immunity, nutrition, |
| 1:03.8 | and microbiome dynamics. I think it's really interesting how we get to have these conversation with both of these incredible thought leaders in the space who have been on their journeys from agriculture and health and focused on not just preventing harm, but supporting vitality and strengthening the intelligence of nature to restore |
| 1:30.6 | our systems. So to open us up and set the tone and intention for the conversation today, |
| 1:38.7 | I wanted to ask you both for our conversation today on our food systems should heal the earth. |
| 1:47.1 | With food being the direct connector between humans and our environment, for both of you, |
| 1:52.6 | when you hear the phrase, our food systems should heal the earth, what does that evoke for you? |
| 2:02.0 | Increasingly, it has pointed back to relationships for me. |
| 2:05.0 | I think when I started out, I came from a very scientific framework of what that meant. |
| 2:08.9 | And so I was after nutrient density, and I was after, you know, the understanding of chemical herbicides and their impact on human biology and the impact on ecologies as we |
| 2:19.7 | wipe out the metabolic. |
| 2:22.3 | It came from a very scientific framework. |
| 2:25.7 | And what I've discovered over the last 10 years of being in this space is that everything |
| 2:30.0 | is about human relationships. |
| 2:31.1 | And it's ultimately our failed relationship between Earth and |
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