Hey everybody my guest today is John Kempf an entrepreneur speaker

a leading crop health consultant and a designer of innovative soil and plant

management systems.

John is part of the Amish community in Pennsylvania. He founded

advancing eco agriculture in 2006 and serves as Chief Vision Officer and Executive Board Chairman.

He's also a host of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast where he interviews leading farmers and scientists who share

cutting-edge practices and science that accelerates the healing of soil, crops, livestock, and our relationship to the land.

As a member of the Amish community, John prefers to use artistic renderings of his likeness rather than a photograph or video.

So we're not airing a video of him today.

John, welcome to the show. Thank you, Bobby, for having me.

It's quite an honor to be here.

I've been an admirer of your work and your platform for a long time,

and there are many exciting things happening in the world and there is a growing awareness of the opportunities and the potential that exists when we all align and pull together.

So thank you for all the work you're doing and thank you for having me.

Yeah, so tell me about your journey and you know and about how you discovered this this occupation I'll call it.

Yeah, it's it's been an interesting journey that's for sure. I grew up on a family

fruit and vegetable farm in

northeast Ohio and the snow belt south of Lake Erie where I still live and we

were growing fresh market vegetables and very in the very mainstream men are using very intense

fertilizer applications and pesticide applications that started in I think we started in 1996 and then in the early 2000s, 2002, three and four, we had a three year

consecutive period that we lost well over 70% of our major crops, our four major

crops to a number of different diseases and insects that we were not

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