John Marshall

April 6, 2019

Report 3

Sustainable to Regenerative

But first…what if you stumbled across a youtube video that was titled “Save the World in 2 hours and 24 min” (I translated the title to english) but it was in Swedish. https://youtu.be/T8D1OHYo9Z8

I’m going to start focusing on the word regenerative instead of sustainable because sustainable means companies can collect oil in places that will be ruined in the process while paying someone to grow trees to offset the destruction. Sustainable is better than peak oil but, what if we didn't have to use nearly as much oil to get the bare necessities? Polyface Farms won’t deliver more than 200 miles from their regenerative agriculture farm. Regenerative farming means that farm production and soil health increases over time instead of decreases. Regenerative farming practices require no chemical inputs. These farms build the soil (without chemicals), increase biodiversity(without chemicals), and are an example of nature being natural and providing all kinds of food for everything in the process. Regenerative farms plan for success buy using local support. How about we have a regenerative agriculture farm within 200 miles of every house?  I think if I was traveling in a line from San Francisco to Portland, Main, roughly 8 farms would be needed to get me from point A to Point B with sustenance I need as I travel along the 3147 mile long path. I can imagine 8 regenerative farms spaced 400 miles apart could find some creative ways to include everyone in their sphere of influence. I bet they would be spectacular farms.