Anthony Arvanitakis on cultivating a holistically healthy lifestyle
Welcome back everyone. Today Iām going to explore a topic that has been important to me for a very long time, but that hasnāt been explored much on this show […]
Todayās episode has been a long time coming for me. Iāve followed Eric Toensmeierās work since I first started learning about permaculture and I found his first book āParadise Lotā about his work in transforming a tiny suburban dirt patch into a perennial food oasis at his home in Massachusetts.
Since then Eric has written many other titles that have kept an eerie pace with my own work and focus over the years. āPerennial Vegetablesā was great fodder for my learning in Guatemala with indigenous plant cultures and companion plants to coffee and avocado. The Carbon Farming Solutionā helped to turn my attention to the potential of regenerative agriculture at scale, and his contributions to āProject Drawdownā helped me to put agriculture in perspective with the rest of the essential steps to addressing the climate crisis around the world.
In this session, because of its relevance to the work Iām doing with Climate Farmers, I decided to focus on the conclusion of āThe Carbon Farming Solutionā Part 5, which outlines the implementation of regenerative, perennially based, agriculture. Weāll explore Ericās three point plan for scaling up carbon farming, his ideas for ways to support farmers and organizations in the transition, effective financing, removing policy barriers, as well as strategic next steps. We also cover some of his work with Project Drawdown in looking at the global picture and where regenerative agriculture stacks up in the priority list theyāve created to reverse the effects of climate change.
Thereās so much more I could say in an introduction to Eric and his work, but instead Iāll put all the links to learn more about him and the projects heās involved with in the show notes for this episode and Iāll jump right into the first question to start this discussion off.
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