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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Permaculture is about blending land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial systems. Because in nature, there is no waste, only shortages and surpluses. How can integrating more regenerative practices help us become more energy independent in the future? David Blume, CEO of Blume Industries and Farmer-In-Chief at Whiskey Hill Farms, has been living the permaculture life before the phrase was even coined. He explains his passion for regenerative practices and how we all can build a better relationship with the planet that sustains us.
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0:00.0 | Everybody, welcome to the show. This is Darren Alene. This is the Darren Alene show. What's happening? Have you checked out down to earth season two yet? |
0:12.0 | Well, you should. It's good. And we get into regenerative ag quite a bit. We get into |
0:19.0 | inoculating seeds with beneficial bacteria, increasing the ability for the resiliency of soil and plants from a natural perspective. |
0:32.0 | We get into that. We have great conversations with aboriginals. We have great conversations with Bruce Pasco. |
0:42.0 | So you want to check out down to earth season two. And that is a good segue into my great friend David Bloom David. |
0:52.0 | He's got an amazing farm up in northern California, five acres of indoor greenhouses, also some three plus acres outside. |
1:03.0 | He does a lot of experimenting. He's got superfoods, galore and one where he just experiments. David is a biosystematist. That's right. It's a thing. |
1:14.0 | It's like permaculture, right? So permaculture is looking at everything through a system, through the ecology, through the biology and how things work. |
1:24.0 | And how there is David says this. I've heard him say it so many times. There is no waste ever. It's just a matter of people being lazy. |
1:34.0 | We can clean up this world. All of the pollution can be converted to beneficial things. I swear. I've seen this stuff. |
1:44.0 | He is a pioneer in regenerative ag before they were even using the term. He's one of the top permacultures on the planet. He has a biofuel pioneer way before anyone was talking about this. |
1:59.0 | A global food waste, optimizing consultant. That's right. He looks at Seffagon. You have waste? Cool. You have energy. So he looks at this thing. He's a critically acclaimed author. |
2:11.0 | He has done many experiments with NASA, with Mother Earth news. He works closely with my good buddy, Chris Patton. |
2:21.0 | They do a lot of incredible stuff. He's still consult with the United States Department of Agriculture. He is globally renowned in the renewable energy space and regenerative ag consultant who works directly with all of these government agencies, commercial farm operations, community groups. |
2:40.0 | He is very active and always seeking a better way to do it. He wrote an amazing book called Alcohol Can Be a Gas. |
2:51.0 | Literally creates and can create carbohydrate economies by what he knows. We get into that. We are at his farm. |
3:00.0 | So if you want to check out the video on YouTube, you certainly can do that because we're in one of his greenhouses and it was such a delight for me to hang out at his farm in his farm and run around with him and see his distillation units and see how he's taking waste from local communities and thrown away candy and he makes fuel out of it. |
3:23.0 | He has clean fuel. He has plans where we could be independent in this country if we actually followed some sensible growing practices and also not being dependent on outside fuel sources. |
3:38.0 | That's right. It can be a reality. |
3:41.0 | So this is a very special episode for me. I love David Bloom. He is first in class when it comes to regenerative ag, real ground breaking stuff. |
3:54.0 | And he's been one of the great educators of our time in this space. So please a warm welcome. Take some notes. This guy is full of powerful, important information. |
4:10.0 | You are listening to the Darren Alin Show. I am Darren and it is my life's mission to find and share healthy and sustainable ways of living. In this podcast, I talk to inspiring people and professionals from around the world to uncover ways that we as humans can improve our lifestyles, strengthen our mindsets and take better care of this beautiful planet we call home. |
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