What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Eddie Garcia is back on the show today.

We are talking with the lead designer of Living Earth Systems and also the founder and executive director of Regenerative Education Centers

which you can find at our e centers.org

So Eddie we are talking now today about subtropical agroforestry which I think maybe we should start for those who don't know with just a quick definition on agroforestry.

Yeah, cool. Aloha everyone. Happy to be sharing this with you. So agro forestry. Let's start to think of agronomy. Let's start to think of agriculture and the way we've been doing it. Most of us see the giant machine that's been doing

agriculture for our life here on this planet the industrial machine we know is

the monoculture one crop in a giant field and if you lose the crop if it doesn't rain if it

does rain if the bugs hit it you have to hit it with pesticide you have to because

you're only growing one thing. There's no balance. There's nothing to feed it. There's nothing for an environment for it to protect itself in. You're taking this one thing that was hybridized for a long time. You're

sticking it in whatever medium it is that you can hold it and you're treating it

with chemical fertilizer. So this is how agriculture has gone around since you know the early 1900s but

agriculture was the small family farm it had a diversity they had some

chickens they have they had some corn and other little crops they made jams they had multi facets of

In of income and their whole whole lifestyle was developed around waking up in the

morning and feeding the chickens or taking care of the plants or whatever it was

they did that was lost with the invent of the giant industrial

revolution of agriculture, which was the invent of basically ammonium nitrate, the same thing

we used to make bombs with with that later on for most of

our lives a little interesting fact most people don't know that most of our food if

you've grown up in mainstream America your food was actually made with recycled bomb material

from World War I and World War II. If you've eaten any kind of corn or soy or anything

in the last 80 years, it's all been actually recycled ammonium nitrate

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