Did you know we’ve lost 80% of the nutrients in vegetables in the last 100 years?
As farming has become big agriculture focused on scale, transportation, and profit, human health has suffered along with soil health.
Farmer Lee Jones has become one of regenerative farming’s most enthusiastic promoters, and to hear him wax poetic about butternut squash and the way Brussels sprouts grow is like a sports announcer commentating on the game-winning score!
In this highly entertaining episode (I can see why Rachael Ray offered him a show through her production company!), you’ll get to hear about:
- the unique microclimate along Lake Erie
- the changes in farming and grocery stores in the last 75 years
- how the Jones family has turned many failures into better health for all of us at the Chef’s Garden
- what regenerative farming is, and how even small home gardeners can tap into this traditional, lost wisdom!
- why so many farmers are trapped and hurting the soil
- how the whole mess got started (and who’s behind it)
- how to harness the energy from the sun to create nutrient-rich soil, and how the Chef’s Garden research facility makes old-fashioned farming high tech (without losing the good parts)
- what’s ice spinach???
- how the on-farm chef has figured out the art of using all the parts of the plant, the vegetable version of “nose to tail” cooking
It’s rare to have so much fun on an interview AND learn so much. Farmer Lee Jones does not disappoint!
Resources We Mention for Regenerative Farming Methods
- Purchase The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables–with Recipes on Amazon or Bookshop.org
- Watch The Chef’s Garden on Amazon or on A&E!
- A Beginner’s Guide to Regenerative Agriculture
- Growing Food in Containers Using Permaculture
- Visit Farmer Lee on his website or on social media: Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok
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