WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.629 --> 00:00:10.349 Charlotte Cosca: Wonderful. Okay, here we go. We are in the part two of regenerative farming. 2 00:00:11.820 --> 00:00:17.699 Charlotte Cosca: First, we want to start with a land acknowledgement on my little speaker bars on the way. Okay. 3 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:34.410 Charlotte Cosca: Um, as an organization within a land grant institution dig the campus garden coalition at UCLA acknowledges the Gaborone now Tanga people's as a traditional land acres of Tang bar Los Angeles Basin in Southern California Channel Islands. 4 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:43.080 Charlotte Cosca: Cool. Okay, well I'll pass it off to Andrew, he is going to say a little bit about himself. 5 00:00:44.730 --> 00:00:59.610 Andrew Evans (he/him): Yeah. So I already said so manager. I said, I'm a fourth year senior ecology major on campus. And so I've taken a lot of classes and I'm really interested in conservation and restoration and 6 00:00:59.610 --> 00:01:00.630 Andrew Evans (he/him): Sustainability. 7 00:01:01.470 --> 00:01:04.260 Andrew Evans (he/him): And recently I worked on this farm. 8 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:05.010 Andrew Evans (he/him): This 9 00:01:05.070 --> 00:01:06.240 Andrew Evans (he/him): Small organic 10 00:01:06.270 --> 00:01:18.990 Andrew Evans (he/him): Sustainable Farm in fly Tennessee in the middle of nowhere and flexibility so kind of in that bottom left picture. This my friend Georgie and kind of see how it goes. We had a lot of pastors, so we had 11 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:34.650 Andrew Evans (he/him): A whole flock of sheep and one goat. As you can see the goat and we had a cows and a donkey and a bunch of ducks and geese, as well as the actual garden itself, which you can kind of see down there with the caterpillar group house. 12 00:01:36.270 --> 00:01:46.200 Andrew Evans (he/him): So yeah, we work with a bunch of different stuff and and i just i i really like and I've done a lot of research on regenerative agriculture and how to implement them in 13 00:01:47.100 --> 00:01:55.140 Andrew Evans (he/him): And in order to make informed forums and and food systems. And so that's something that is really interested in. And so I'm here we 14 00:01:57.090 --> 00:01:58.170 Charlotte Cosca: Are so glad you're here. 15 00:01:58.230 --> 00:01:59.130 Charlotte Cosca: This is gonna be great. 16 00:02:01.860 --> 00:02:08.160 Charlotte Cosca: Um, I wanted to begin with, just a couple of slides on why regenerative farming is so important. 17 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:19.500 Charlotte Cosca: And so to begin, I want to. There's a quote from how to save a planet, which is a podcast. And they did a podcast on regenerative farming. 18 00:02:20.040 --> 00:02:24.090 Charlotte Cosca: Which I'll talk about a little bit more later, but in it. They said, 19 00:02:24.690 --> 00:02:39.210 Charlotte Cosca: In the traditional sort of power based way of farming soil is just the medium, the crops are the thing that you tend, but in regenerative farming if you tend to soil than the soil will actually turn the crops, and I think that just sounds really beautiful and 20 00:02:41.730 --> 00:02:55.740 Charlotte Cosca: And yeah, it's it is how like I of course have only been researching it for about, like, three weeks, but I'm from my understanding that is a pretty good way of explaining it. And also just I'm 21 00:02:56.850 --> 00:02:59.910 Charlotte Cosca: Not talking about in a good way. So I open the chat so I can 22 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:15.180 Charlotte Cosca: Okay. 23 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:21.480 Charlotte Cosca: Why is it so important. It is creating an ecosystem and 24 00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:29.190 Charlotte Cosca: I we talked about this last week. Sophie had an awesome video on it and she also talked about it and 25 00:03:31.620 --> 00:03:42.900 Charlotte Cosca: We can see that like when you are creating a in a farm like this. You want to have all the different components of an ecosystem that can grow together can work together and create like 26 00:03:43.770 --> 00:03:47.880 Charlotte Cosca: Just like yeah, an ecosystem. A great place to grow crops and 27 00:03:48.540 --> 00:04:06.600 Charlotte Cosca: Also within the podcast. It said the best yield of crops and regenerative farming or the farms, I have created the most diverse feudal out and like restorative land. So you're getting more produce out of it and what you're also creating this like wonderful environment. 28 00:04:08.340 --> 00:04:12.120 Charlotte Cosca: And so some examples of that are fish farming. 29 00:04:13.290 --> 00:04:16.020 Charlotte Cosca: Specifically this one TED talk that I watched 30 00:04:17.250 --> 00:04:33.870 Charlotte Cosca: His which is called how I fell in love with a fish. It talks about this one man's dan dan barbers on like travels through different fish farms and like understanding fish farming and he like fell in love with like this one fish, which is 31 00:04:35.850 --> 00:04:52.170 Charlotte Cosca: Which is from this area in Spain where they've created like this estuary, just for fish farming, but they created in a way that creates this ecosystem where you don't have to feed the fish, you don't have to like give them any like extra like nutrients or 32 00:04:55.980 --> 00:05:01.560 Charlotte Cosca: Yeah, you don't. You don't have to do anything with the fish like the ecosystem just works with them and creates it and 33 00:05:02.430 --> 00:05:06.480 Charlotte Cosca: It these fish also feed the plants and animals around there and he says, like, 34 00:05:07.320 --> 00:05:17.700 Charlotte Cosca: That is like better, it's creating this great ecosystem and you know it's a good ecosystem, because it's working with the land, working with the birds there and it's wonderful. 35 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:27.090 Charlotte Cosca: Yeah, he's awesome chef or Easter farming, there's this company called the green wave which they can restore and also create 36 00:05:27.930 --> 00:05:42.660 Charlotte Cosca: Areas for fish to live. So like if you have, if you have see seaweed or other species of algae. It's great place for fish to hide. You can also have bivalves there which are like oysters and clams like 37 00:05:44.460 --> 00:05:53.400 Charlotte Cosca: Yeah bivalves like two shells holding together. And those are creatures who will like their filter feeders. So they'll also create 38 00:05:54.990 --> 00:06:02.580 Charlotte Cosca: A better ecosystem by filtering the water so creating more clean water and seaweeds giving them places to live. 39 00:06:03.030 --> 00:06:16.860 Charlotte Cosca: And so you're creating this great ecosystem, but from it. You're also taking the produce which you're taking the bivalves so people can eat them, and you're taking the seaweed to be for people to eat them. So it's great. 40 00:06:18.060 --> 00:06:21.630 Charlotte Cosca: Again with this podcast. Sorry. I like loved it. 41 00:06:23.370 --> 00:06:31.110 Charlotte Cosca: And how to save the planet they talked to a fourth generation farmers who in this generation have switched your dress regenerative farming practices. 42 00:06:31.380 --> 00:06:44.670 Charlotte Cosca: And they began noticing the birds and the bees and other organisms returning to their land and in that they were also noticing that they didn't have to put in fertilizers, they didn't have to put in 43 00:06:45.900 --> 00:07:06.000 Charlotte Cosca: Herbicides or pesticides, they since the birds were there, they eat all the pests and they realized that they didn't have to put work into the land because the like the land is working itself and and through that they were also getting more crops and lastly agro forestry. 44 00:07:08.130 --> 00:07:18.570 Charlotte Cosca: There we go. Um, this was from the video that we showed last week. It's just like you're creating this food forest where there's there's larger trees smaller trees, there's 45 00:07:19.500 --> 00:07:27.390 Charlotte Cosca: Herbs shrubs and like there's some things that you can eat. And there's also some things that are there just to create this great ecosystem. 46 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:36.810 Charlotte Cosca: And of course you want to include perennials and native plants to the region that you're in, which will also just like creative environment. So, yeah. 47 00:07:38.490 --> 00:07:43.830 Charlotte Cosca: Cool. Sorry, this is like so much information and I'm going through it really fast, but you can of course 48 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:46.290 Charlotte Cosca: Go back or 49 00:07:47.310 --> 00:07:55.620 Charlotte Cosca: You can also go, I'll give you a list of resources afterwards for you to continue looking into regenerative farming. 50 00:07:56.940 --> 00:08:01.830 Charlotte Cosca: Last slide on white regenerative farming so important. Um, 51 00:08:03.570 --> 00:08:22.770 Charlotte Cosca: So there it increases soil by biodiversity organic matter and soil health. It's more resilient to climate change. If I, if anyone has taken like I don't know AP Bio in high school or AP Environmental Science in high school, or if you take an environmental science classes. 52 00:08:23.850 --> 00:08:26.940 Charlotte Cosca: You know that like the most really resilient. 53 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:31.740 Charlotte Cosca: Ecosystems are the ones that have a lot of 54 00:08:32.760 --> 00:08:44.190 Charlotte Cosca: Had a lot have a lot of biodiversity. So an ecosystem will become more resilient if it has more so by biodiversity and it also become more resilient to climate change, because 55 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.600 Charlotte Cosca: It will decrease runoff and erosion, which 56 00:08:49.830 --> 00:08:52.260 Charlotte Cosca: It will decrease runoff and erosion through 57 00:08:55.950 --> 00:09:07.470 Charlotte Cosca: Um, so when soil health is higher, you can actually when it rains, the soil will be more oxygenated. You know, it won't be like squish down and through that you can 58 00:09:08.730 --> 00:09:14.640 Charlotte Cosca: More rain will filter through and it can hold so there won't be as much runoff and aversion. 59 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:31.320 Charlotte Cosca: And there will be no more telling, which is great because until tilling not only brings carbon back into the atmosphere by, you know, like ripping up the soil and like letting it go. But I'm telling also 60 00:09:32.760 --> 00:09:34.080 Charlotte Cosca: tilling also 61 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:41.880 Charlotte Cosca: It like ruins the ecosystem that you've created you know all the by all the 62 00:09:43.110 --> 00:09:53.730 Charlotte Cosca: All the worms and all the micro organisms are in doing their thing, they're doing their job, what they're supposed to be doing. And then you come until and you're just like messing up the ecosystem and 63 00:09:54.420 --> 00:10:06.990 Charlotte Cosca: ruining what they could be doing for the soil and then to fix it. You have to put in fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides to try to fix the environment, but instead of doing that, you could just not tell you could 64 00:10:07.770 --> 00:10:15.090 Charlotte Cosca: sequester carbon, keep the carbon in the soil and you could just let the microorganisms do what they gotta do. 65 00:10:16.620 --> 00:10:19.920 Charlotte Cosca: So yeah, there's so many amazing reasons. 66 00:10:21.870 --> 00:10:26.340 Charlotte Cosca: And I'll hand it off to Andrew now to talk about ranch style regenerative farming. 67 00:10:26.520 --> 00:10:27.900 Andrew Evans (he/him): Yeah, so 68 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:38.520 Andrew Evans (he/him): I think so. Animal Agriculture is pretty controversial for like environmental reasons and ethical reasons, but I think with regenerative farming. 69 00:10:38.580 --> 00:10:48.840 Andrew Evans (he/him): It's pretty clear. I mean, you really have to acknowledge. I mean, if we're trying to emulate an ecosystem, at least the ecosystem processes to, you know, restore 70 00:10:49.320 --> 00:11:04.230 Andrew Evans (he/him): The environment to sequester carbon animals are part of almost every ecosystem, especially like in America, where we have massive prairie landing grassland grazers or a major part of it. So instead of trying to like shut them out and trying to implement 71 00:11:05.550 --> 00:11:16.890 Andrew Evans (he/him): Garden agriculture that some, to some extent, like it's pretty cool to include like praising and hurting animals as part of your agricultural system to benefit the processes, you're trying to get out of it. 72 00:11:18.180 --> 00:11:20.160 Andrew Evans (he/him): But something that you really got to consider with this is that 73 00:11:21.390 --> 00:11:28.620 Andrew Evans (he/him): Contrary to the like industrial animal agriculture which confines animals to really small space, you need a lot of land. 74 00:11:29.400 --> 00:11:36.060 Andrew Evans (he/him): For good rad chick. So you can actually spread out the impact and it's not wearing it down. It's actually building it up and 75 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.490 Andrew Evans (he/him): So you can have a massive plot of land and just let the animals roam on their own coordinate magically 76 00:11:42.180 --> 00:11:47.310 Andrew Evans (he/him): As they were down the grass, they find a new spot or you can do it manually as the rancher, you can 77 00:11:48.210 --> 00:12:02.130 Andrew Evans (he/him): section off different areas of land and drive the cattle or or sheep or bison or whatever you're hurting to the next pasture to let that first pasture have enough time to recover and so you're cycling it in a very timely manner. 78 00:12:03.150 --> 00:12:12.180 Andrew Evans (he/him): And something cool to consider is how you can incorporate indigenous practices and native grass and communities with ranching practices. 79 00:12:13.020 --> 00:12:21.330 Andrew Evans (he/him): So maybe instead of doing cattle ranching you can actually just go straight to the bison themselves, you know, the largest North American land animal mammal at least 80 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:30.240 Andrew Evans (he/him): You can bring them back to the habitat that they were originally part of and help rebuild that habitat because bison do a lot 81 00:12:31.410 --> 00:12:45.180 Andrew Evans (he/him): It's layer like considered eco system engineer, so they allow a bunch of other grassland animals and plants to thrive as well as well as you know making your economy off of it and also allowing indigenous people to control their original food source and have some 82 00:12:46.230 --> 00:12:59.700 Andrew Evans (he/him): Control over their land and their own natural resources. Pretty cool idea and and then for predator mitigation and I wanted to mention a big conflict with animal agriculture is obviously the animals that eat your and 83 00:13:01.260 --> 00:13:05.010 Andrew Evans (he/him): So the you know the most standard process or a lot of 84 00:13:06.060 --> 00:13:13.200 Andrew Evans (he/him): agricultural history is just to kill off the the wolves and mountain lions to basically have no predators to conflict. 85 00:13:14.430 --> 00:13:22.020 Andrew Evans (he/him): But I mean those predators also have a really important part of that surrounding ecosystem. So there's a lot of ways you can incorporate or at least allow those predators. 86 00:13:22.920 --> 00:13:33.690 Andrew Evans (he/him): To live. I mean, we're going to have to actually put a lot of effort actually just physically bring them back. But then allowing them to live by using guard and also on my farm like we had to guard dogs and made a guard donkey. 87 00:13:34.500 --> 00:13:47.550 Andrew Evans (he/him): Garden llamas are also a thing. And there's a lot of different practices like flagging on fences or little like strobe lightning machines to deter predators, so that they don't actually conflict with your economy. 88 00:13:48.510 --> 00:13:59.100 Andrew Evans (he/him): And also I did want to mention down here. It's a cool idea. The bottom right is is like if you're talking about like a green. Green New Deal green economy and fully regenerative economy. 89 00:13:59.940 --> 00:14:10.560 Andrew Evans (he/him): This is an example of solar panels which, you know, renewable energy source, but then you have grass i mean it's it's using up land. So then grass will grow and cover up the 90 00:14:11.070 --> 00:14:18.270 Andrew Evans (he/him): And block the sun from the solar panel. So you need to get rid of grass. So instead of mailing, you can have sheet to go and 91 00:14:18.630 --> 00:14:29.790 Andrew Evans (he/him): They're not goats that they won't climb up on the solar panels, but you can have a renewable energy sources as well as a regenerative agriculture, food source of using the same land. So it's a really cool idea to 92 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:36.030 Andrew Evans (he/him): Combine industry industries like that. Yeah. So this was my little brief overview of ranching 93 00:14:40.260 --> 00:14:41.100 Charlotte Cosca: That was wonderful. 94 00:14:42.900 --> 00:14:52.950 Charlotte Cosca: Now to ocean farming agriculture, since I love marine biology. I've been reading about this for a while now. So 95 00:14:54.540 --> 00:14:56.040 Charlotte Cosca: First, it's 96 00:14:57.270 --> 00:15:00.750 Charlotte Cosca: By those fish and seaweed farming are the most common 97 00:15:02.010 --> 00:15:11.520 Charlotte Cosca: Um, here's a photo from the video that I was talking about earlier, the TED talk, and this is at the regenerative fish farm so 98 00:15:12.060 --> 00:15:25.950 Charlotte Cosca: When Dan barber got there he was, like, why are you allowing all these flamingos to eat up all your product and the scientists there said that's exactly what we want to happen. We want to create this ecosystem, we want 99 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:39.990 Charlotte Cosca: This to be like a true ecosystem. And these flamingos would actually fly from like super far away every single day to get to this fish farm and eat like 20% of their product and 100 00:15:41.370 --> 00:15:53.700 Charlotte Cosca: Then bivalves and seaweed farming. You can either do it separately or together. This is from the green wave in the green wave company that I was talking about earlier where they'd create 101 00:15:54.870 --> 00:16:12.180 Charlotte Cosca: An ecosystem through cleaning the cleaning the ocean water and also creating habitat for these fish. And yeah, so they're creating a better functioning ecosystem, but then here we have 102 00:16:16.770 --> 00:16:18.540 Charlotte Cosca: Can you all see my notes. 103 00:16:21.060 --> 00:16:21.450 Sophie (she/her): No. 104 00:16:23.130 --> 00:16:28.590 Charlotte Cosca: I'm okay. And lastly, if this is in Zanzibar where they've started 105 00:16:29.550 --> 00:16:36.720 Charlotte Cosca: Creating these are seaweed farms where you're just like you put seaweed onto a strand and 106 00:16:38.280 --> 00:16:43.530 Charlotte Cosca: Yeah, so then it grows in this strand. And they're actually improving the water quality, because it's 107 00:16:44.190 --> 00:17:03.150 Charlotte Cosca: Sucking up and excess nutrients that are in the surrounding environment from industrial farming on the land. So, and it is also creating a habitat for the fish as well. So there's so many positive ways of using the system. 108 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:08.220 Charlotte Cosca: And next we have market garden. 109 00:17:10.950 --> 00:17:22.440 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So Mikey gardens are basically like small scale farms, people often have these on their own properties and they can be as small as an acre, which would be just a little bit smaller than a football field. 110 00:17:23.550 --> 00:17:32.490 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And oftentimes they're even smaller than that they produce fruits, vegetables, flowers, and all kinds of other products like maple syrup or other things that they 111 00:17:33.060 --> 00:17:39.570 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Get from their farms and they're sold directly to consumers in their community, many of them will have like a market stand 112 00:17:40.050 --> 00:17:51.360 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Which is pictured here for their produce to sell to the community. And for those of you who are at our workshop last week, Kelly James mentioned that she had a markets and just like this for selling some of her produce 113 00:17:52.560 --> 00:18:02.310 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So their customers are often local restaurants or grocery stores or they sell it at farmer's markets, or even just directly to like neighbors and other members of their communities. 114 00:18:02.820 --> 00:18:17.040 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And the benefits of this or that their costs are often a lot lower than larger industrial farms, because they don't have to pay for heavy machinery or like wages for a ton of workers, which means that in comparison, the profits for the farmers are a lot higher. 115 00:18:18.270 --> 00:18:27.960 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And they typically use traditional organic growing methods, not all of them, but most of them do. And they use manual labor, which, unlike large scale industrial farms. 116 00:18:29.100 --> 00:18:34.590 Dig - Shelby - she/her: Which might use like machinery or pesticides or other practices that are harmful to the soil, the plants and the workers. 117 00:18:36.210 --> 00:18:51.540 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And they prevent environmental issues, such as those caused by like industrial farming mono culture when they have many plants have the same crop in like one field, which can be taken over by like pests and disease and decrease the soil health overtime. 118 00:18:53.220 --> 00:19:03.630 Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then they also can prevent problems caused by pollution due to like the transport of the produce over long distances are the use of chemicals and having large amounts of livestock in unhealthy conditions. 119 00:19:04.500 --> 00:19:13.740 Dig - Shelby - she/her: So essentially the small scale nature of these market garden supports the local community, but it also supports the health of the environment, the plants, the ecosystems and all of the workers that are involved. 120 00:19:23.310 --> 00:19:35.040 Justin Haggard (he/him): And then you could also implement regenerative practices into urban gardens. So this, these can be kind of similar to market gardens and just you're not selling the produce and stuff. 121 00:19:35.610 --> 00:19:46.110 Justin Haggard (he/him): And they can also take like kind of the form of community gardens or personal like residential gardens and yeah and so you're just going to kind of think of 122 00:19:46.830 --> 00:19:54.690 Justin Haggard (he/him): These five key principles that I listed on the side there. So thinking of Sign You Want To obviously design it 123 00:19:55.320 --> 00:19:59.700 Justin Haggard (he/him): And so that's getting the maximum amount of sun but then you're also going to think about the lack of sign 124 00:20:00.600 --> 00:20:09.990 Justin Haggard (he/him): Because you don't want sun in some places, otherwise you get a lot of leads and your soil health kind of deteriorates so using like a lot of plants to cover the soil for the most part. 125 00:20:10.410 --> 00:20:17.040 Justin Haggard (he/him): And or using mulches like I include a picture there where there's some mulching the pathway and then 126 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:29.970 Justin Haggard (he/him): Yeah, keeping the soil covered is going to kind of help build up the soil quality and also provide like the ideal habitat for soil micro organisms. So it's just going to build up the soil over time. 127 00:20:31.020 --> 00:20:32.820 Justin Haggard (he/him): And then also thinking of water. 128 00:20:33.840 --> 00:20:43.110 Justin Haggard (he/him): Designing the garden and ways that conserve water and so like Charlotte was saying earlier, you want to reduce run off evaporation and limit like flooding. 129 00:20:43.830 --> 00:20:52.650 Justin Haggard (he/him): Possibilities. And yeah. And then the third one is soil. So you want to aim to create the ideal habitat for soil organisms. 130 00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:58.920 Justin Haggard (he/him): And because these soil organisms will help create a healthy soil for you. And so it's kind of a cycle process. 131 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:14.310 Justin Haggard (he/him): And you can improve your soil by adding organic matter and then balancing water eliminating the harsh son, like I just talked about. And over time, the soil structure will improve and then that will improve water retention and the fertility of this one. 132 00:21:15.570 --> 00:21:23.970 Justin Haggard (he/him): And then all of those components will eventually lead to more biodiversity and you could also plant a lot of diverse 133 00:21:24.540 --> 00:21:28.440 Justin Haggard (he/him): Plant species in your garden, and you kind of want to do 134 00:21:29.100 --> 00:21:37.890 Justin Haggard (he/him): Like plantings were there together instead of keeping them in separate rose, because when you do companion planting where you plant plants with similar needs together. 135 00:21:38.370 --> 00:21:48.150 Justin Haggard (he/him): And it also increases like the biodiversity of insects and some plants can even provide like natural pest repellent benefits for other plants. 136 00:21:49.320 --> 00:21:58.650 Justin Haggard (he/him): And you also want to make sure you're planting for pollinators, because obviously those are really important and a diversity of pollinators also will really help your garden. 137 00:21:59.580 --> 00:22:09.060 Justin Haggard (he/him): And then obviously, I kind of put in parentheses because it's kind of like obviously plants can live on their own but humans can definitely help guide these principles and 138 00:22:10.080 --> 00:22:23.910 Justin Haggard (he/him): And then also part of regenerative agriculture is kind of thinking about how to sustain your local community. So that's more of, I'd say like the market garden side of this, but I did include a picture of the learning garden here which is in 139 00:22:25.350 --> 00:22:37.230 Justin Haggard (he/him): Venice. I think it's in LA. And that's kind of an example of a garden that was made from like a, I think it was an empty lot at first and then over time. 140 00:22:37.710 --> 00:22:45.840 Justin Haggard (he/him): Using kind of these regenerative practices. Now there's like this really lush garden there and it's really cool. And then in the bottom. 141 00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:56.580 Justin Haggard (he/him): Right hand corner I include a picture of Ron Finley, which I'm sure a lot of you know who he is or at least heard of him, but he's kind of like a a gardener legend in LA. 142 00:22:58.410 --> 00:23:08.580 Justin Haggard (he/him): We could probably like talk about him for an hour, but he grew up in South Central LA, which is, it was a food desert when he was growing up, and still has a lot of problems with that. 143 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:18.810 Justin Haggard (he/him): And he decided to grow his own food in the park way like between the street and the sidewalk and to kind of grow food for his community and for himself. 144 00:23:19.290 --> 00:23:32.160 Justin Haggard (he/him): And the City of LA actually like had I think they find him because it's technically city space, even though it's like out in front of his house and he actually went and like 145 00:23:33.630 --> 00:23:42.120 Justin Haggard (he/him): He took it to court and eventually like the city backed off. And so now he's starting this movement kind of any has been doing this movement. He's been doing this for a while. 146 00:23:43.020 --> 00:23:49.770 Justin Haggard (he/him): Where he's kind of taking over empty spaces in urban settings and planting a lot of fruits and vegetables so 147 00:23:50.760 --> 00:24:03.090 Justin Haggard (he/him): I don't know if like he would call it regenerative agriculture, necessarily, but I think it's a great form of regenerative agriculture and it's just another way of like kind of incorporating plants into urban landscapes. 148 00:24:13.470 --> 00:24:21.000 Andrew Evans (he/him): Okay, I can effectively then um so we thought it'd be a cool idea to to kind of dive into these ideas more 149 00:24:22.500 --> 00:24:30.840 Andrew Evans (he/him): And so basically what we're gonna do is we're going to create for breakout rooms and depending on which one you get assigned to and 150 00:24:31.260 --> 00:24:39.510 Andrew Evans (he/him): You will be either assigned a branch and ocean farm or agriculture farm market gardener and urban food system. And basically, and 151 00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:49.800 Andrew Evans (he/him): We want you to go through these questions and basically brainstorm or mentally build a business or an or like or a farm and 152 00:24:50.340 --> 00:24:58.560 Andrew Evans (he/him): And kind of really think about how regenerative stuff goes into that. So I think in this case because yeah market garden urban three systems are pretty similar. You can think of the urban food system. 153 00:24:58.980 --> 00:25:15.390 Andrew Evans (he/him): More like the Ron Finley kind of guerilla style either like on sidewalks are on rooftops are either going to market garden which could be more like open land available. So basically want you to in your teams come up with how your farm will be regenerative 154 00:25:16.590 --> 00:25:31.590 Andrew Evans (he/him): You know, all those practices that we've been talking about this whole time and just come up with a name for your farmer business and make a mock mission statement and how it will acquire funding besides just selling goods. Because, I mean, that is a really 155 00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:37.110 Andrew Evans (he/him): big challenge for regenerative farming is getting the funding to sustain the business. 156 00:25:37.560 --> 00:25:41.670 Andrew Evans (he/him): And what good you will raise your produce you know what you're selling what you're growing 157 00:25:42.060 --> 00:25:51.060 Andrew Evans (he/him): How the products will be sold and distributed. So how you're getting it to your consumers, and then how your farm will incorporate community involvement. So how it will actually engage 158 00:25:51.480 --> 00:26:02.190 Andrew Evans (he/him): The local people around there to make it you know self sustaining and involved and then you don't have to make a slide. But just like have someone be able to present kind of what you all come up with in your group and 159 00:26:04.110 --> 00:26:05.520 Andrew Evans (he/him): And we can do that. 160 00:26:08.670 --> 00:26:16.980 Charlotte Cosca: Yay. Great. I will send the questions in the chat. So everyone has them when we set out on our own.