After retiring early from Microsoft and traveling the world, Narendra Varma became interested in permaculture design and biodynamic agriculture. He moved to Portland Oregon in 2010 and purchased a fifty acre farm in order to found OurTable. OurTable produces local food from the community by blending science and wisdom form the past.
In this episode, we discuss biodynamic agriculture, the problems with the modern industrial food system, and how locally produced food can elevate the world’s problems.
In this episode, we discuss biodynamic agriculture, the problems with the modern industrial food system, and how locally produced food can elevate the world’s problems.
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"The best thing to do is to build a relationship with the person who is growing your food." - Narendra Varma
Show Notes:
- How the industrial food system effects climate change
- Why the word "organic" doesn’t mean what it used to
- Why industrial agriculture isn’t feeding the world
- How cheap calories are not really cheap
- How our public health crisis was created
- Why he started his farm
- What biodynamic agriculture means
"Biodynamic farming sees the farmer as an organ in this organism, not more or less important than any other part." - Narendra Varma
- How to get a biodynamic certification
- Why Havana grows most of its produce within the city limits
- How the OurTable farm cooperative works
- Why they produce far more biomass in food per acre than industrial agriculture
- How people are waking up to the fact that what we put in our bodies impacts our health
- Why we aren’t paying the real cost of our food
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"We as a species have become disconnected with the systems that support us." - Narendra Varma