meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Regenerate the Earth with Josh Tickell | The Beet

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Episode Description: Soil is where it all starts – our food, our health, and our planet. In this episode of The Beet Podcast, Jacques chats with Kiss the Ground and Common Ground filmmaker Josh Tickell about why healthy soil matters and how home gardeners can dig into regenerative practices right in their own backyards. Get ready for a fun, inspiring look at growing food that gives back to the earth. Connect with Josh Tickell: Josh Tickell is a leading eco-visionary known for crafting powerful, solutions-driven documentaries. He won the Sundance Audience Award for Fuel and gained widespread acclaim for Kiss the Ground, which spotlighted the critical role of soil health in agriculture. His latest film, Common Ground, continues that mission, focusing on regenerative farming as a response to climate change. Find more from Josh at his website: https://www.joshtickell.com/  Find more from Josh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshtickell/   Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop  → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests  Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube  → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog  → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts  → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord  → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta  → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok  → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest  → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter  → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook  → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup  → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Imagine a delicious patty nestled between two buns with cheese and ketchup. It's not a burger.

0:05.6

That patty is actually sausage, which makes this a sandwich. A breakfast sausage sandwich, the new 199 sausage sandwich from McDonald's. Made with RSPCA, short pork.

0:15.5

Until 11 a.m. price and participation may vary. Up charges and fees apply to delivery. Subjects for availability. Food is a personal choice.

0:22.2

But ecologies work in specific cycles,

0:26.2

and the biogenic cycle,

0:27.5

the cycle of water and gases around the planet,

0:30.8

needs animals.

0:32.4

We have broken that cycle.

0:34.8

Just rewilding, just putting things back to nature is not good enough. We're going to have to

0:40.3

strategically, managerially regenerate ecosystems. That's going to require putting herds back in place,

0:50.0

managing herds, making them move. And, yeah, some people will eat those animals.

0:55.7

Some people will not.

0:56.8

I think we need to think of a regenerative economy where we're building back the topsoil

1:01.2

versus an extractive economy where we're pulling out the topsoil.

1:09.2

Welcome back to the Beat Podcast.

1:13.6

I am your host today, Jacques Laikov. And today we have a very special guest on Josh Tekel. You might have heard him from Common Ground or Kiss to Ground. Both are

1:19.2

wonderful, fantastic documentaries that are definitely topics that if you're gardening at home,

1:24.2

you're going to be interested in. It's all about how we could help the planet,

1:28.3

basically through growing food. And that's a very short way of saying it. But thank you for coming on

1:33.0

today. And I know you're also an avid gardener, so I think we're going to have plenty to talk about.

1:37.6

Always lots to talk about when we talk about Common Ground. Just a quick thing to keep in mind,

1:47.4

Kiss the Ground and Common Ground are on Prime Video. So it's Amazon Prime. So no more Netflix. Kiss the Ground was on Netflix, but it's been

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.