Episode 10 of the Our Regenerative Future Series. In this podcast, our host and author Alina Siegfried talks with Sheldon Levet from Kaicycle, Sarah Smuts Kennedy from For the Love of Bees, Bailey Peryman from Cultivate Christchurch and Daniel Schuurman from Biologix. The panelists reimagine the future of local food production in our cities and discuss how building networks of urban regenerative farmers can help improve biodiversity, build carbon rich soils and lead to community well being. Links: Urban Farmers Alliance: https://www.urbanfarmersalliance.org.nz/urban-farmsOMG Urban Farm: Pure Advantage: www.pureadvantage.orgHost Alina Seigfried: https://www.alinasiegfried.comFollow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/pureadvantage/
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As the climate crisis deepens, we are becoming more aware of just how badly we have failed to respect our most precious asset: nature. We depend entirely on it for our food, our air, our water and our shelter, and yet, we have been neglecting and exploiting nature for decades, even centuries.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) promise to redress the balance by restoring habitats and ecosystems. In doing so, we can tackle the biodiversity crisis, meet our climate targets, adapt to flood and drought and improve public health and wellbeing, all at comparably low-cost.
One of New Zealand's advantages are the strengths of our natural systems including the primary sector that is at the heart of our traditional economy. But tradition has proved detrimental to the environment and throws into doubt our social license to operate which is why regenerative models agriculture and forestry underpin solutions and enable stewardship of the environment, profitability and positive social outcomes.
Join us for a series of conversations with farmers, foresters, scientists, entrepreneurs and business leaders to explore the opportunities for regeneration in the New Zealand setting, the role of market mechanisms, funding models, soil science, near to nature forestry, urban agriculture and native forests, systems-thinking and more. Enjoy! https://pureadvantage.org/