#44 Daniel Griffith - How Should We Define Regenerative Agriculture?

<p>On this episode, we talk to our friend and previous podcast guest Daniel Griffith, a farmer, father, author, poet, and food systems visionary. We wanted to talk to Daniel again to share his experience applying for the <a href="https://www.usda.gov/climate-solutions/climate-smart-commodities/projects">USDA’s Climate-Smart Commodity Program</a> grant, and ultimately being denied. We discuss the problems of titanic multinational agribusiness corporations that were granted funding, and we talk about the importance of grass-roots small-scale organizations defining regenerative agriculture in local contexts. We talk about how the solutions to our agricultural woes will not come from the top — that small, human-scale farms hold the key to a healthy food system. We discuss the problems of carbon fundamentalism in our understanding of food system transformation, the precarities of our current system, and the importance of self-determination, diversity, equity, and locality moving foreword. Additionally, we talk about the problems that small-scale farmers face and how the system sets them up for failure. We also discuss <a href="https://eatcommons.com/">Commons Provisions</a>, a step in Daniel’s greater vision towards a food system where people can access hyper-local meats from small-scale regenerative farmers without over-extending the land and the farmers themselves.</p><br/><p>Pre-order Daniel’s new book, Dark Cloud Country, and support the Kickstarter Campaign to publish it by clicking <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielfirthgriffith/dark-cloud-country-poems-and-prose-from-a-wild-land?ref=project_link">here</a>, and buy his book <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/83021/9781735492254">Wild Like Flowers</a>. Follow Daniel on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/daniel.firth.griffith/">here</a> and his farm <a href="https://www.instagram.com/timshelwildland/">here</a>.<br/><br/>Editing: Jake Marquez</p><br/><p>Music: “Broken Together” by Sofa Surfers ft. Mani Obeya</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to