235: Colin Walker on Keys to Growing Nutrient-Rich Food.
Connecting important ecology-centered concepts for producing nutrient dense food.
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Colin’s concentrations have been on permaculture, ecology centered design, seed preservation, conservation of traditional/heirloom food plants, garden education and most recently investigating (from an ecology perspective) the essential elements needed to guarantee that the food we grow is actually nutrient-rich.Don’t miss an episode! Click here to sign up for weekly podcast updates
In This Podcast:
Previous guest Colin Walker goes further into ecology-centered concepts and describes the key points he has developed to focus on growing better foods. He has taken years of experience, research, and study and compiled it into six key focal points that will help any gardener or farmer produce healthier, more nutrient rich foods.
Listen in and learn about:
- A review of ecology-centered gardening
- Coping with the toxicity in the world today
- Why the skin of many fruits and vegetables are so full of anti-oxidants
- The assumption on the nutrients in food, the truth of which has changed over the last five or six decades
- How obesity is a symptom of malnutrition
- His concerns about industrial food production, including those grown organically
- Kiwi Gardeners
The six keys that he developed to help grow nutrient-rich food:
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- An ecological view of the world
- Genetics –How home gardeners can make an impact –Open pollenated seeds and why it makes a difference
- Nutrients and their movement through the Food Chains –Nutrients don’t appear out of the air –Commercial compost and what value it has shown through tests to offer –Soil life
- The environment –Photosynthesis –Minerals and phytonutrients –Water
- Using holistic, integrated design –Constantly evolving –Break into parts to see the relationships
- On-going experimenting/research/learning –The gardeners journey –Bucket science –The new gardening community
How to reach Colin:
Website: KiwiGardeners.com
UrbanFarm.org/KiwiKeys
Check out our other interview with Colin: Gardening with Ecology at its Heart
I’d love to listen to the podcast on nutrient dense food. Unfortunately the link isn’t working.
Thanks so much for your podcasts. I’ve learned so much.
Judy
Sorry about that, it is all fixed now. I believe a last minute edit put it in the pending folder and we had to manually kick it out.