This is Cynthia's SHORT version of her presentation to the Rare Fruit & Vegetable Council. To see the FULL presentation: https://youtu.be/shHQY43msOo

Cynthia Schaefer's newest book was just published, called "Foodsteading: How to create abundant food right where you live":
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Cynthia also recently published "Your Food is Your Future: The ONE THING that changes everything":
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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.

CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO (EP32A):
00:00 - Main Introduction
00:17 - Food Systems - Cynthia's Introduction
00:57 - Elderberry flower/breadfruit pancakes
01:20 - Cassava flour - Malanga flour
01:50 - Importance of microbiome biodiversity - Gut bacteria - Soil microbe diversity connection
02:13 - The Superfood Myth
02:30 - Real Superfoods
02:52 - How many oranges do you have to eat to equal the nutrition in one from 100 years ago?
03:16 - PEAK WELLNESS of the human system - The system of Nature
03:39 - Healthy Soil: Cornerstone of Life
03:51 - Healthy soil web brings excesses of drought or flooding in balance
04:17 - Healthy soil web sequesters carbon
04:35 - Farmland is decreasing - Good news/Bad news
05:20 - Monocropping vs polycropping (biodiversity)
05:48 - Regenerative Farming/Regenerative Agriculture
06:07 - Regenerative Gardening
06:28 - What would the forest do? - WWFD
06:33 - "No-til" gardening
07:00 - Healthy Soil Web
7:06 - Plants solve their own problems - Right where they are!
8:42 - Constant change in the garden
9:28 - Animal and insect interaction
10:11 - Respect the plants that show up - Weeds!
10:30 - Bugs: Friend or foe?
10:55 - Weeds - Food, medicine or information?
11:51 - Close

In Cynthia's full presentation she also spoke about The Caring Community. To learn about this great organization watch this: https://youtu.be/r-dOfBIMidg


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