Sustainable Agriculture Across the World and For the World

We don't just garden for us.

We garden for birds, we garden for other people, we garden for insects.

It's all inclusive.

Our goal is to create public private partnerships, to invest in sustainable agriculture,

that benefits small farmers across the world

that are sustainable environmentally and that will provide real incomes to small farmers so

they can have a livelihood out of agriculture.

Global food security does it really exist?

So in permaculture, we're talking about the permaculture system and, it should be like

the natural ecosystem, where, for example, the forest, the trees are connected to the soil and the

animals are connected to the plants and they share a lot of knowledge and also, nutrients and water

and together they can function as this whole system.

From the moment you pick a tomato, for example, that tomato is starting to

degrade because it's no longer really living.

It's important to keep that tomato in the best conditions possible- to keep it out

of dust, to keep it out of the sunlight.

And so that might involve, improving transportation or packaging it in better crates

. Marion Owen: It's like having money in the bank

or go to a local market and support the farmers.

Gardening.

I think it's a very inspiring thing to do.

You want to come to work and feel good about what you're doing.

So we hope that the animals are comfortable.

Healthy.

As we become more concerned about food security, where it comes from the inputs,

GMO processing, et cetera, I think it's more important to learn where your food comes from.

Environmental stewardship, humane handling, transparency and sustainability,

both environmentally and monetarily.

We also have losses to different kinds of insects but then I think we just accept it.

It's sometimes it's not so easy now because there's, insect they also belong to this

ecosystem and it's normal in our fruit garden.

The chicken, they really have an important job.

Our biggest defense around predation is just putting animals away.

That's how we try to not have those losses.

As we just try to work with the natural wildlife.

We're trying to provide farmers with tools to mitigate the impact of climate change because

the changes are happening, happening so rapidly.

It's about global food security on a planet where climate change is affecting food supplies

We really try to, to figure out climate friendly ways of, of cultivation and also,

try to prepare our farm for these changes.

What seed can we use that's going to grow in these changing climates and it is rapid.

In recent centuries, Kenyan farmers have planted maze corn . But with

climate change, the rains are less predictable.

Everything here is enhanced by a compost, which we make year round from kelp and

even Buffalo poop kitchen scraps and leaves that we rake up in the fall even Alaska that we can

then spread all over our lawn and our raised beds.

In the European union, we have, , organic farming law.

Gardening.

I'm not the grower.

I am just the cheerleader.

There is something bigger than me, I couldn't create broccoli.

But I can be a cheerleader to nurture it the best I can.

And so if I can instill that on somebody else to realize we're just here on the planet for

a short time, do our best, listen within as much as we can and let the plants talk to us,

. Deck Farms: Humane certified would vary from

have the principles of plenty of fresh air, plenty of open area to move about and somewhat

mimic what would be in a natural environment.

In permaculture, we don't want to use drinking water for irrigation

. So what we do is we collect rainwater falling on

use it for the toilet and dishwasher and so on.

On every side of of the house is a pond where we collect the water.

There is no such failure in the garden.

The worst thing that happens is it goes into the compost pile.

It's not a big deal.

We learn by experience.

Humane, certified farm is doing everything they can to make the animal healthy and happy.

Humane handling the people that work here, really learning about the care of animals.

Again, they're not production units, they're sentient beings that, have feelings

and need a level of care and then environmental low environmental impact.

Let's get out of our boxes and realize that there's more happening.

I realized I just have to empty out my cup and then fill it with what really matters.

I was very inspired because of permaculture, because it's not mainly the

products it's really the background of nature.

we're working on a tomato seedling project.

Each seed is adapted to the local environment.

The idea of permaculture is to design gardens or farms or cities, in

relation to this whole system thinking.

It's a holistic way of designing.

What your animals are eating is, has a pretty big impact on what your body's intaking.

. Andrew Bracken: What unfortunately happens

don't have the money to move their animals.

Sadly, they ended up being diseased or ended up dying.

So what this insurance product does, it uses satellite imagery, to determine if there a

drought conditions, if it determines drought conditions, it pays out to the farmer.

And then the farmer is able to use that money to buy feed for their animals to buy water or to herd them

to a place where there's more pasture and more water

The point is, is that animals do have another way of communicating.

And if you can move your body.

Think about what you want them to do, you're a lot more successful.

So it doesn't require yelling or hitting or prodding or whoop de whoop.

It's a very quiet and calm atmosphere.

There's only one bad day and that's the last day.

And this is actually mustard, greens I have allowed to go to flower because I want

to provide some food for the late pollinators.

They pollinate a lot of other trees and wild plants.

Their mission, they do it for the ecosystem.

Most farmers, or at least the farmers I respect and certainly DECK

see ourselves as stewards of the land.

We want all those animals in our ecosystem.

We know it's healthy when there's Eagles flying and owls at night and there's coyotes and cougars.

I mean, all those things build a healthy ecosystem.

So we don't want to eradicate.

So I think that the small holder farming is a small scale farming is a very, a

good way ecological way for, for the future.

I know it's a lot of work,

my word or positive imprint is partnership.

It's very meaningful because it means bringing together disparate groups who don't normally work together

and trying to achieve a better, more positive impact.

I think there are a lot of things we could do which can make life easier, also inspiring.

There's no stopping and starting.

It's just a continual flow.

And the more that we as humans realize that we too are a continual flow, we

don't start and stop with living or dying,

You're throwing in your positive imprint.