A regenerative hour about stable soil sinks versus ‘coke of the farming world’ – with Chris Balazs from Sage Farm, Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils, permaculture singer and songwriter Charlie Mgee from Formidable Vegetable Sound System, and Colin Mockett from 94.7 The Pulse.

“Oil drives you crazy. Oil corrupts politics. Oil buys politicians.”

~ Jeffrey D. Sachs, American economist and director of The Earth Institute

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Content of this hour

Links, excerpts and more information about what we talked about in this Sustainable Hour

» Sage Farm’s home page:

www.sagefarm.com.au

» Sage Farm on Instagram:

www.instagram.com/sage.farm

» Sage Farm’s address:

2430 Midland Highway, Bannockburn, Victoria

Look for the rusty “La Finca” sign out the front.

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Branding and understanding

After the Hour, we talked with Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils who added these three points to the conversation we had:

1) Re: The thin skin of soil which is being degraded and destroyed and may be gone in decades:

The great news is that with regenerative we can rebuild and actually ‘grow’ new soils.

2) Re: Regenerative branding of food:

Two definitive labels nearly ready are: Regenerative Organic, and Era of Regenerative Agriculture including the Australian version of this: LandToMarket.com.au

3) Re: Criticism of farmers:

Cindy Eiritz wrote: “It would be good to try to build more understanding of farmers.