EP32B - This is Cynthia's FULL presentation. To see the short version of her presentation to the Rare Fruit & Vegetable Council:
https://youtu.be/u1RBQz4iqpw
Cynthia Schaefer's newest book was just published, called "Foodsteading: How to create abundant food right where you live":
https://amzn.to/3PRHvLV
Cynthia also recently published "Your Food is Your Future: The ONE THING that changes everything":
https://amzn.to/3zuR12m
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The primary mission of this channel is to inspire and education new gardeners to grow their own organic food. The secondary mission is to bring awareness to Regenerative Gardening, and Regenerative Agriculture as Cynthia spoke about.
To learn more about The Caring Community:
https://youtu.be/r-dOfBIMidg
CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO (EP32B):
00:00 - Main Introduction
00:30 - The Caring Community
01:48 - Food Systems - Cynthia's Introduction
02:53 - Elderberry flower/breadfruit pancakes
03:39 - Cassava flour - Malanga flour
04:50 - Importance of microbiome biodiversity - Gut bacteria - Soil microbe diversity connection
06:06 - The Superfood Myth
08:55 - Real Superfoods
10:30 - How many oranges do you have to eat to equal the nutrition in one from 100 years ago?
10:53 - Organic monocropping & PEAK WELLNESS of the human system - The system of Nature
11:33 - Black sapote wine/Black sapote vinegar/Fire cider
13:55 - Healthy Soil: Cornerstone of Life
14:48 - Healthy soil web brings excesses of drought or flooding in balance
15:13 - Healthy soil web sequesters carbon
15:32 - Farmland is decreasing - Good news/Bad news
16:18 - Monocropping vs polycropping (biodiversity)
17:03 - Regenerative Farming/Regenerative Agriculture
17:21 - Regenerative Gardening
18:19 - What Would the Forest Do? - WWFD
18:39 - "No-til" gardening
19:06 - Healthy Soil Web
19:30 - Plants solve their own problems - Right where they are!
23:15 - Constant change in the garden
24:09 - Animal and insect interaction
25:00 - Respect the plants that show up - Weeds!
26:01 - Bugs: Friend or foe?
28:50 - Weeds - Food, medicine or information?
30:31 - Cucamelon
30:58 - Sida acuta, Wireweed
33:21 - What teas can be made from our gardens?
34:15 - What do you do if your problem is sandy or mucky soil?
35:40 - Have you had any luck or tried to find Asian vegetables to grow?
38:03 - How do you grow Chayote? What season?
40:14 - Using urine as fertilizer?
41:10 - Using chicken manure in the garden
41:55 - Would you make, or how would you make a salve out of Wireweed?
44:12 - How long have you been living like that? Eating from the yard?
45:11 - Cynthia Schaefer books: "Food is Your Future" & "Foosteading"
45:31 - Close
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