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All images of Heady Ridge Farm copyright Kaye Kittrell 2015. Slideshow created and audio mastered by Christina Horgan. This interview is on SoundCloud as a podcast. Here, you see images of his farm. https://soundcloud.com/kaye-kittrell/late-bloomer-interviews-barefoot-farmer
6:52 – Most urban gardens are too shady, one of the biggest problems for urban gardeners
7:19 – Jeff refers to this quote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir, 1911
9:56 – No-till gardening means worm-tilled
16:35 – Fixing climate change or global warming, grazing animals on grassland sequesters carbon
18:00 – The emergence of fertilizers and feeding the war machine
23:25 – How consumers will change industrial agriculture
24:20 – The Bible is one of the greatest books to study agriculture
25:07 – A cow can live off 2 acres but make 4 acres fertile
25:12 – Jeff refers to ruminants. Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through bacterial actions.
28:38 – Revitalization of American farmland is what urban gardeners are seeking
30:43 – Jeff refers to CAFO’s – Confined Animal Feeding Operation
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