[2:53] Intro
[4:19] Organic has always been an insurgency
[5:49] A small farm feels “right”
[7:14] History of organic
[8:26] Ivy league kids growing their own food in the 60s
[10:26] Dave’s farming story \ Organic farming before CSAs were invented
[12:34] USDA vs regional control of organic label
[13:59] You couldn’t find organic at the grocery store in the 90s
[15:03] Early adopters of organic and its importance
[16:32] Fraudulent organic grain in the US
[18:10] The moment it stopped being a “movement”
[19:00] Patrick Holden, Lady Eve Balfour, and Albert Howard
[20:34] Corporate forces co-opting the cultural movement
[21:14] Our food system is more than just farmers and eaters
[22:55] Cargill is a member of the Organic Trade Association
[23:37] The rapid loss of meaning with “regenerative”
[27:56] Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring \ Organic to health connection
[31:00] Organic agriculture is an answer to climate change, why do we keep trying to reinvent the wheel?
[32:58] We are more informed than ever before
[34:43] History of ag in Asia – F.H. King’s Farmers Of 40 Centuries
[36:44] Hydroponic becomes organic and the start of the Real Organic Project
[42:00] CAFO’s in organic
[44:30] Zephyr Teachout’s Break ‘Em Up
[45:43] Monopolies were being broken up before Robert Bork changed things in the 1980s
[47:52] Economic challenge of being an organic grower today
[48:56] 70% of organic berries in the US are Driscoll’s berries
[53:23] How can small organic farmers compete with the prices of big organic?
[54:47] Majority of our food production moving to central America
[58:26] Thoreau and ML King’s activism
[1:01:30] So much change has happened in 100 years
[1:02:48] There has always been bad farming even before chemical agriculture
[1:04:59] Why big companies love “regenerative”
[1:07:12] Monsanto’s “climate smart” agriculture
[1:08:04 Is “No-Till” being co-opted too?
[1:08:44] Enemies of organic are champions of regenerative… huh?!
[1:12:04] Pepsi claims regenerative?!
[1:13:25] Hope for the future
[1:14:26] Consumers want to make the right choice, and more and more are!
[1:18:33] The world’s best manipulators have all the money, and they’re working tirelessly to mislead you
[1:19:09] Seth Godin on the internet
[1:20:20] It was hard for the pioneers in the past, and it won’t be easy in the future either
[1:20:50] Early pioneers of organic had to be hard headed, they took so much abuse
[1:25:30] Europe’s field to fork initiative
[1:30:26] When food becomes cultural it’s harder to manipulate
[1:33:16 How do we bring the ‘precious’ things back that we’ve lost
[1:40:17] Get involved!
[1:42:50] Information on The Real Organic Project
[1:45:19] What book have you read more than once?
[1:46:56] What advice did you only appreciate later in life?
[1:49:05] What’s the best difficult decision and best mistake you’ve ever made?