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2: The Fight To Save Organic | Dave Chapman Durée : 1:55:07
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Dave Chapman is a lifelong organic farmer who runs Long Wind Farm in Vermont. They grow the best tasting organic tomatoes in the country in the fertile soil underneath a glass greenhouse. He is the Co-Director and Board Chair of the Real Organic Project, dedicated to reigniting and reconnecting the organic movement. He leads the Real Organic Podcast, providing a platform for many organic farmers, eaters, scientists, authors, educators, activists, and chefs. He was a co-founder of Vermont Organic Farmers in 1985, and was among those first certified by the USDA’s National Organic Program in 2003. His latest project is the creation of the Tomato Masterclass, a training for farmers working to create a stronger economic base for their market gardens. In his spare time he practises tai chi to stay sane and healthy.
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[2:53] Intro
[4:19] Organic has always been an insurgency
[7:14] History of organic
[8:26] Ivy league kids growing their own food in the 60s
[10:26] Dave's farming story
[13:59] You couldn't find organic at the grocery store in the 90s
[15:03] Early adopters of organic and its importance
[16:32] Fraudulent organic grain in the US
[18:10] The moment it stopped being a "movement"
[19:00] Patrick Holden, Lady Eve Balfour, and Albert Howard
[20:34] Corporate forces co-opting the cultural movement
[23:37] The rapid loss of meaning with "regenerative"
[27:56] Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
[34:43] History of ag in Asia - F.H. King's Farmers Of 40 Centuries
[36:44] Hydroponic becomes organic and the start of the Real Organic Project
[42:00] CAFO's in organic
[44:30] Zephyr Teachout's Break 'Em Up
[45:43] Monopolies were being broken up before Robert Bork changed things in the 1980s
[48:56] 70% of organic berries in the US are Driscoll's berries
[53:23] How can small organic farmers compete with the prices of big organic?
[54:47] Majority of our food production moving to central America
[58:26] Thoreau and ML King's activism
[1:02:48] There has always been bad farming even before chemical agriculture
[1:04:59] Why big companies love "regenerative"
[1:07:12] Monsanto's "climate smart" agriculture
[1:08:04 Is "No-Till" being co-opted too?
[1:12:04] Pepsi claims regenerative?!
[1:13:25] Hope for the future
[1:18:33] The world's best manipulators have all the money, and they're working tirelessly to mislead you
[1:19:09] Seth Godin on the internet
[1:20:20] It was hard for the pioneers in the past, and it won't be easy in the future either
[1:25:30] Europe's field to fork initiative
[1:42:50] The Real Organic Project
[1:45:19] What book have you read more than once?
[1:46:56] What advice did you only appreciate later in life?
[1:49:05] What's the best difficult decision and best mistake you've ever made?
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Date de publication : 1/5/2024 à 14:00:00
