Restorative Farming: How the Conventional Food You Eat is Destroying Our Earth with Anya Fernald
Align Podcast
Aaron Alexander
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Our food is getting cheaper and cheaper, but at what cost? Not only are our current farming and food processing practices and systems deteriorating our health, but it's causing even more harm to our ecosystem.
The question at play in this episode is how can we create food for ourselves in such a way that actually restores the health and vitality of the soil of which we are producing our food?
In this episode, I am joined by Anya Fernald who has the asnwer. She is the founder and CEO of Belcampo Inc., a family of companies that encompasses Belcampo farms where they humanely raise organic meat (which I believe produces the highest quality meat I have ever come across in my life). Belcampo focuses exclusively on regenerative farming practices, which means it restores the land it uses rather than deteriorate it.
Anya is a brilliant woman and I was in complete awe throughout the entire interview learning from her about our food, where it comes from, and the impact it has on our environment.
What we discuss:
How we have “perfected” nature 5:00
The interconnectedness of nature (How we solve one problem but create another): 13:00
The different roles of animals: 18:30
How animal digestive systems work and how it’s integral to our ecosystem: 21:30
Eating non-socially acceptable parts of animals 23:30
Shocking foods fed to animals: 29:00
Animals in Confinement vs. Pasture-raised: 30:00
Why cow farts are harmful to the environment: 32:00
What is regenerative farming: 33:00
What happens when you farm on marginal land: 40:00
Is regenerative farming scalable?: 41:00
The shift in mentally that needs to happen in the value we place on meat in our diet: 47:00
Anya’s tips for what our first steps should be 53:00
Check out Belcampo here.
Follow Anya on IG here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander for newcomers to this program. It's a place that we bring together the world's leading experts on all things health and wellness to help you optimize your life, your mind, your're moving all the things and this conversation is exactly that and |
| 0:16.0 | because beyond just your own life but the life of the globe, Earth, agriculture, a really fantastic conversation with my dear friend, Anya Fernald. |
| 0:26.0 | She is an author, a chef, a farmer, and a savvy businesswoman. |
| 0:34.8 | She owns a really successful restaurant, |
| 0:38.7 | referred to as Bell Campo. |
| 0:40.1 | And that if you guys follow me in Instagram, |
| 0:41.4 | probably see me refer to I go there quite |
| 0:43.6 | often and they have the highest quality vegetables and meat and food that I have |
| 0:51.2 | come across certainly in Los Angeles let alone just my life in general |
| 0:55.3 | and the reason for that is they focus primarily on regenerative farming practices. |
| 1:03.4 | By primarily, I mean exclusively. |
| 1:05.4 | And you can taste it in the food. |
| 1:08.2 | And so, Anya is a, I would say she's a brilliant woman. |
| 1:13.2 | I was really impressed with getting to sit with her in this conversation. |
| 1:18.4 | For a good chunk of it, I was just in complete awe of all the amazing insight that she has on where our food comes from. |
| 1:27.4 | And the how we can start to actually become custodians or guardians of earth, of the soil. |
| 1:37.3 | So this conversation gets into exactly that. |
| 1:40.0 | How can we create food for ourselves in such a way that actually restores the health and |
| 1:47.0 | the vitality of the soil that we are producing the food through. |
| 1:52.0 | And so it's an amazingly important conversation I know you guys are really going to value it |
| 1:57.1 | So hope you guys love this conversation and if you have any interest in learning how the heck to relieve that neck and back |
| 2:06.9 | tension that you may have I highly recommend jumping on to a line podcast |
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