Returning to Eden

Project Good Podcast

According to World Counts, a data insights organization, if the planet continues to operate its global food system in its current state, we will run out of food in 25 years. Starting in 2022 many consumers saw the increase in food prices at the markets and in restaurants. The prices have been caused by several factors including war, upticks in production costs since the pandemic, and the demand due to a growing global population. The current mass farming practices are not allowing time for natural replenishment and an overhaul of the system is needed on the macro and micro levels.

To combat these unnerving trends many everyday people are looking into growing their food and cultivating their little bit of green at home to hopefully curb costs at the check-out line and bring health back to their bodies and communities.

In this episode, landscape architect and award-winning author Matthieu Mehuys, and I discuss what is needed to turn back the clock on the land to bring back health and natural replenishment to the land.

Topics discussed in this episode:

- Modern Farming [7:40]
- For Soil [9:30]
- Good News [11:20]
- Find Your Purpose [13:00] - Skin of Our Planet [17:27] - Famine [20:00]

- Removing Deserts [27:32]
- Scaling in Farming [37:00]
- Gardening for the Everyday Soul [41:00] - Biology of Gardening [45:32]
- Junk [50:00]

- Hands in Soil [52:00]
- Trends in Gardening [55:26] - The Book [60:00]

Quote: ”If you are interested in becoming a good gardener you need to become educated.”

Guest Bio:

Matthieu Mehuys is the co-founder of Paulownia a landscape architect company with a mission to offer competent services to create sustainable and ecological outdoor spaces where people and nature are in harmony. Mehuys can be found designing beautiful gardens, educating landowners on the best use of their properties, teaching a growing online audience about gardening, and being an activist for the planet. In addition, Mehuys is an award-winning author on a mission to make our world a greener, healthier place. A popular gardening coach his book 12 Universal Laws of Nature, How to Use Your Land to its Full Potential walks readers through nature's secrets, learning how to develop a gardening blueprint and how to create a low-maintenance/high-impact garden. Matthieu's passion for cultivating the earth has enabled him to reach people around the world, bringing them back to their roots as humans and encouraging people to lead the way to revitalize the planet.

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