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163: JM Fortier joins Dave to discuss the potential of promoting a replicable, decentralized food and farming system that relies on people building relationships with both land and community, by engaging their powers of observation and connection.
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JM Fortier is a farmer, educator, and author from Quebec, Canada. He is known for promoting a culture that replicates small-scale diversified farms that rely on market gardening strategies (direct sales of cash crops to community members) and human-powered growing practices. You can learn more about him and his many adventures here:
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We believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.
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28 авг 2024

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@steveford9294 5 месяцев назад

Excellent interview with two organic farmers who have reached a lot of growers and eaters alike.

@asbjorgvanderveer5050 5 месяцев назад

I'd love to hear the two of you have this conversation about no till with Charles Dowding and Richard Perkins! The hype came out of lifelong practices as a market gardener in Charles Dowding's case studying and comparing conventional organic to NO TILL. Coming up with a manageable, result's oriented garden schooling for all ages (and incomes) of gardeners has great allure to the masses. I believe that's in the message that makes it a religion, and an achievable goal for the home gardener, putting it in the hands, and on the tables for all to experiment with. The marketing finesse behind Dowding's approach is impeccable.

@johncarter1150 5 месяцев назад

NO-Till Growers RU-vid channel is a good source for information. Sounds like having lots of apprentices laborers is really how you make it work.

@cliffpalermo 5 месяцев назад

What a great conversation and thank you for sharing. Always happy to hear what JM has to say. I moved from Washington, DC where in the kindergarten preschool and elementary schools all had gardens. My kids learned the garden in the city. We moved to a rural area and the schools don't have gardens. Instead Chick-fil-A and McDonald's is pushed

@johncarter1150 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the conversation... The reality of farming sustainably is a constant challenge! There isn't a labor shortage... most people don't want to work. Or do farm work, in my experience.

@janew5351 5 месяцев назад

Canadians need to speak up about our food to each of our elected officials!

@cliffpalermo 5 месяцев назад

Jessie Frost and the No Till podcast / RU-vid i feel has a good no dogma approach, focused on healthy soil practices.

@KerryBeane-kk 5 месяцев назад

Great discussion on why we need to do more to educate everyone about our food system. It's essential to have locally owned farms to build cultural cohesion for a food infrastructure. The push to mechanize all systems and eliminate workers entirely is well afoot in California's industrial fields and orchards. JM is correct that small farms hold the answer to resilient local food systems, not industrial agriculture, which has been shown in extensive research to be deleterious to community wellbeing.

@huguesdemol8308 5 месяцев назад

In my opinion if small markets farms keep getting more and more popular, then the big chains will begin to offer more local organic vegetables. My analogy is similar to micro brewery beers. When I go to my local grocery store (Metro) and other near by grocery stores, half of the shelving is dedicated to micro breweries.

@johncarter1150 5 месяцев назад

Maybe something got lost in translation, didn't understand this comment.

@huguesdemol8308 5 месяцев назад

@@johncarter1150 hopefully, larger grocery stores will start offering more local products. A trend that we are seeing with micro breweries beers being offered at grocery stores

@eastportorganic 5 месяцев назад

Pour it on!!

@billiverschoore2466 5 месяцев назад

Brave people; sanity in our present 'civilisation' is painful. For now! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚

@andrewwoodruff9773 5 месяцев назад

I think it would be helpful when talking about no-till to keep things in context. There are many deep mulch no-till vegetable farms that are very successful. In the arid west organic farmers are struggling with no-till systems but some, like Phil Foster, have figured out ways to implement reduced tillage without sacrificing yields. In the midwest some farmers have been able to dramatically reduce synthetic inputs as they adopt no-till practices which result in soil health improvement. Rick Scott from Indiana has eliminated all pesticide use on his 6000 acre grain operation with minimal tillage, if any. On one of the farms that i work for we have seen dramatic increases in soil health and crop yields by adopting multiple regenerative practices without chemicals. It takes time and we are in year five, but it is working. Reducing tillage is a significant challenge but as soil health improves, so can crop yields. To have success in transitioning to reduced tillage requires a whole systems approach and a lot of patience. I believe the potential benefits of this approach (increasing soil aggregates, sequestering carbon, reducing fossil fuel and synthetic inputs, enhancing soil biota, and increasing water holding capacity, to name a few) call for more conversation and research on the subject.

@notthestrawman3005 5 месяцев назад

It's an "all hands on deck" kind of time!

@abigail01441 5 месяцев назад

At some point, The Real Organic Project is going to have to tackle the medical insurance issue. Basically, people that purchase mass produced commodity products from grocery stores need to pay the higher medical insurance rates. People that eat clean food from local organic artisan gardeners and farmers get the 50% discount on their medical insurance rates. That will get people's attention.

@barbaravanerp4598 5 месяцев назад

I’ve never heard of this. Tell us more.

@abigail01441 5 месяцев назад

@@barbaravanerp4598 I can't really tell you more because it just occured to me right at the end of the video. Somehow, someway, the people with the skill sets and motivation to grow clean, nutrient dense, real food,...they need more than just a loyal customer base. The support and encouragement of other industries would be helpful to all of us. Real organic growers should not have to pay any taxes.

@nickrichards8516 5 месяцев назад

Once the old breaks the new will birth.

@notthestrawman3005 5 месяцев назад

When world Governmenti becomes fascists; Why do we keep paying them? Where's the new Pete Seeger? Really great conversation, quite polite. Unless the world gets off the little black boxes in their homes or in their pockets things will probably stay the same.

@janew5351 5 месяцев назад

Is there a Canadian resource for farms?

@denisdufresne5338 5 месяцев назад

The chemical industry lobbies are so strong that they succeed to put doubts in the head of many farmers and also in our politicians heads. These lobbies are doing a great job to hide us the truth about the fact (that has been proven in so many studies) that chemicals destroy our soil. So we are far from cultivating as nature is showing us for thousands of years. Besides we know today (thanks to our small real organic farmers) that when you farm like nature does then you can produce at least as much as conventional agriculture and without polluting. The owners of chemical industry are so greedy that they accept to destroy our soil for their own personal profit of the detriment of the society health. It is criminal.

@sailonsailon 5 месяцев назад

Can someone help me ID the hoops in the background here?

@johncarter1150 5 месяцев назад

They make DIY pipe benders to form bows/hoops from fence pipe. They are using them to support frost fabric to keep plants warmer at night or cloudy cold days.

@notthestrawman3005 5 месяцев назад

As far as i understand they were made costum by Harnois greenhouses in Quebec

@sailonsailon 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. I understand the application. Hadn't seen hoops like that before. Cheers.@@johncarter1150

@sailonsailon 5 месяцев назад

They do look custom. I'd guessed they're repurposed from another industry. Thanks for your reply. @@notthestrawman3005

@denisdufresne5338 5 месяцев назад

My fear is that the introduction of technology on small farms will put small commercial farmers into huge debt and bankrupt them on a long term, as is increasingly the case with the sector of vertical farms. What's more, the more technology there is, the more energy it takes, and the less resilient the farm becomes. In my opinion, it's better to develop techniques that require as little technology as possible, and ideally as little energy as possible. With the chaotic climate future that seems to be looming on the horizon, the farms most likely to survive will be those that have developed resilient practices requiring very little energy, if any at all.

@judithmcdonald9001 5 месяцев назад

No till came to be following the Dust Bowl. Plows destroy top soil

@ericmodell1118 5 месяцев назад

we till to build top soil.

@BirdieBlrrrd 5 месяцев назад

@@ericmodell1118once?

@judithmcdonald9001 5 месяцев назад

@@ericmodell1118 Hopefully you're not plowing it away like they did back then. I sit on an ancient river bed. Any soil is what I've built on top of all those rocks 😌😌 It's very precious.