The Future of Food Starts in Your Shopping Cart I Talks 21

How can we grow our food in a world shaped by climate change, and what can nature teach us about resilience? In this episode of Talks 21, I sit down with three guests who each bring a different perspective:

Calla Rose Ostrander – co-founder of Terra Regenerative Capital, who has spent over a decade helping farmers, investors, and governments advance regenerative agriculture;

Henry Gordon-Smith – founder of Agritecture, a global consulting firm focused on climate-smart agriculture, who has led over 350 projects across 45+ countries and teaches at Columbia University in New York, one of the most prestigious universities in the US.

Andrew Carter – a pioneer in controlled environment agriculture with over 20 years of experience, including co-founding Smallhold, one of the largest specialty mushroom producers in the US.

In this episode, we discuss:
🔹 What regenerative agriculture means in practice and why it matters now.
🔹 How, according to Henry, restoring agriculture to cities could strengthen food security.
🔹 What the indigenous people of California understood about cultivating nature that we are only now rediscovering.
🔹 Why mushrooms are natural digesters and what their role is in restoring soil health.
🔹 Why Calla believes every food purchase is, in a sense, a quiet vote for the kind of world we want.
🔹 Why the future of farming lies in bringing nature and technology together.

In a world where we constantly hear that human activity is putting pressure on the planet, this conversation offers something different: an optimistic yet grounded look at the future of our food and the planet that produces it.

Timestamps
0:00:00  Theme song
0:00:13  Introduction
0:03:01  How Technology and Nature Can Work Together
0:10:52  Why There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Solution in Agriculture
0:22:46  What Indigenous Cultures Knew About Farming That We Forgot
0:36:42  Why Saving the Soil Matters for Climate Balance
0:50:41  How Mushrooms and Compost Turn Waste Back Into Food
0:56:41  What Role Does the Economy Play in Regenerative Agriculture
1:06:15  How Trusting Nature Brings Us Back to Ourselves

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