Jay & Ashlee speak with Roger Moore. Roger is a retired Staff Scientist who worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Hamilton, Montana. He has a PhD in Organic Chemistry, with a focus on synthetic chemistry and prion diseases.

Topics Covered: Prion Diseases, Peak oil & implications for our future, At-home gardening as a silent protest, Haber-Bosch & industrial nitrogen fixation, nitrogen fixation & soil organic matter (SOM), glyphosate toxicity, shikimate pathway & the production of aromatic amino acids, how to calculate your crops' Nitrogen requirements, how to dissociate yourself with Big Ag, closing the loop on the carbon & nitrogen cycle on farm.

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Glyphosate Contamination in our Food

How to calculate Nitrogen requirements for your crops