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Healing From the Ground Up
“Food as medicine.” The phrase is everywhere in the news and on social media.
But food and farming impacts not only our bodies. In this episode of At the Iowa Farm Table, we look at the concept of healing our bodies, by choosing better foods and by healing our soils.
“If we’re going to have healthy people, we have to have healthy soils that produce healthy plants. That gives us healthy people,” says Shaffer Ridgeway, farmer and Soil Conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the arm of the US Department of Agriculture that works directly with farmers to help them improve their soil health.
Ridgeway will be part of a new Summit to be held in Iowa on March 2 + 3 in Cedar Falls, called Healing from the Ground Up. You can view the entire speaker lineup and register to attend at the webpage here.
“The goal of this Summit is to create the social movement necessary to build the bridge between producers and consumers,” said Tommy Hexter, the IFSC Executive Director and one of event’s planners. “We will not only talk about the microbes in the soil, or the microbes in your stomach—we’ll also talk about how we get food from the farm to the table in Iowa, in a concerted effort. We all have to figure out how to work together.”
Listen to this podcast that features some of the event’s speakers, discussing why and how healthy soil means healthier people.
Voices
Shaffer Ridgeway—Southern Goods Farm
Jenn Arndt—Roots Nutrition Counseling
Tommy Hexter—Iowa Food System Coalition
Resources
An Alarming Decline in the Nutritional Quality of Foods: The Biggest Challenge for Future Generations’ Health
Corn Era Hybrid Macronutrient and Dry Matter Accumulation in Plant Components | Agronomy Journal
Thanks to Shaffer Ridgeway, Jenn Arndt and Tommy Hexter. And to Jodie Huegerich and Audrey Tran Lam for their thoughtful editing of this episode.
Music by Beatfonics, Ian Post, and Mujo
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit attheiowafarmtable.substack.com
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By From the Iowa Food System Coalition“Food as medicine.” The phrase is everywhere in the news and on social media.
But food and farming impacts not only our bodies. In this episode of At the Iowa Farm Table, we look at the concept of healing our bodies, by choosing better foods and by healing our soils.
“If we’re going to have healthy people, we have to have healthy soils that produce healthy plants. That gives us healthy people,” says Shaffer Ridgeway, farmer and Soil Conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the arm of the US Department of Agriculture that works directly with farmers to help them improve their soil health.
Ridgeway will be part of a new Summit to be held in Iowa on March 2 + 3 in Cedar Falls, called Healing from the Ground Up. You can view the entire speaker lineup and register to attend at the webpage here.
“The goal of this Summit is to create the social movement necessary to build the bridge between producers and consumers,” said Tommy Hexter, the IFSC Executive Director and one of event’s planners. “We will not only talk about the microbes in the soil, or the microbes in your stomach—we’ll also talk about how we get food from the farm to the table in Iowa, in a concerted effort. We all have to figure out how to work together.”
Listen to this podcast that features some of the event’s speakers, discussing why and how healthy soil means healthier people.
Voices
Shaffer Ridgeway—Southern Goods Farm
Jenn Arndt—Roots Nutrition Counseling
Tommy Hexter—Iowa Food System Coalition
Resources
An Alarming Decline in the Nutritional Quality of Foods: The Biggest Challenge for Future Generations’ Health
Corn Era Hybrid Macronutrient and Dry Matter Accumulation in Plant Components | Agronomy Journal
Thanks to Shaffer Ridgeway, Jenn Arndt and Tommy Hexter. And to Jodie Huegerich and Audrey Tran Lam for their thoughtful editing of this episode.
Music by Beatfonics, Ian Post, and Mujo
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit attheiowafarmtable.substack.com