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So the title of this episode should be “How F’d is Our Food System and what can we do about it, but that is too long. You guys know me though I don’t poke problems without corresponding solutions. Today though you likely think we are going to dig into supply chains and droughts, not really. I am talking food quality today.
I ran a poll on Twitter today asking simply, how much uranium (yes URANIUM) do you think is annually spread onto our fields via contaminated phosphorus globally. The answer will be on today’s show but not given in the text notes to keep the poll honest.
What I could not it into the tweet though due to limits is three really horrifying facts.
Fact One – Uranium is added by the ton to our fields annually. This has been going on for decades. Bill Mollison covered it in these PDC lectures from the 1980s! So that is at least 40 years.
Fact Two – The government, big ag, etc. are all aware of this, they know full well they are doing this. Once that uranium is in that field you are never getting rid of it, ever. The half life is measured in the billions of years.
Fact Three – Absolutely nothing is being done to stop this or even slow it down. The precent of contaminated phosphorus is fairly constant and we use more of it for the same effect every year. Basically the powers that be have concluded that the risk of radio active food is worse than the risk of not enough food to their power base.
As bad as this is, it is only one part of the problem. We will dig into it today along with how a solution that is thousands of years old may be a huge part of fixing or at least mitigating our problems with a system that is honestly on its’ last legs.
Today we Discuss…
- Shocking facts about our food supply
- 12 million tons of uranium is dumped on our farm fields annually (has been for decades)
- Glyphosate has been found in the vast majority of urine samples of people in the US – link
- The US Midwest alone has lost 57 billion metric tons of top soil in the past 160 years – link
- Farms tend to loose top soil at about 1cm a year, natural soil is created at about 1cm per 100 years – link
- The world is on plant based diet already, so is the US (5 primary crops)
- Thoughts on solutions
- My soil fertility philosophy can be summed up simply as build, hold, increase
- We need back yard gardens, small producers doing it right, etc. but we need mass change as well
- Unfortunately we do not control the mass system so we must do what we can with what we have
- The lessons of tera pretta and biochar
- A word about biased studies and FUD
- Our time preferences today are far to short (think in centuries)
- How native cultures made terra preta (we think, may be, we may not really know shit)
- Dig a pit
- Add carbon and set on fire
- Cover pit to control 02 flow
- Spread on fields
- What we find in terra pretta
- Pottery shards – image from todays stream is here
- Fish, shells and animal bones
- Beneficial bacteria and fungi that we don’t find together anywhere else
- How we can use biochar
- We don’t really need to charge it up, we need to make it ideal for inhabitation by microbes, the easy methods
- Compost tea
- Composting
- Cycle though animals
- Yes we can and likely should add minerals (like rock dust, kelp, etc.)
- Biochar does many things
- Locks up toxins – soil remediation
- Hold 7X its weight in water
- Provides homes for microbes
- Reduces nutrient loss
- In some places is still fertile after centuries with almost no soil “management”
- We don’t really need to charge it up, we need to make it ideal for inhabitation by microbes, the easy methods
- Biochar Outputs Include
- Biochar
- Wood Vinegar
- Syn Gas
- Heat
- Biochar is not “the solution” it is a solution and function stacks perfectly with
- Rotational grazing
- Fodder systems
- Composting
- Garden and market garden scale systems
- Dealing with existing waste streams (For example shitty wood chips from commercial pruners)
- Getting the main steam on board is where biochar shines
- They now have to meet their own carbon offset BS
- They know their sheep (you) will starve if they don’t fix the problem
- It plays to modern virtue signaling
- It makes allies of adversies
- What else can we all do in our own back yards, what are your ideas
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