{"id":3435,"date":"2018-12-13T22:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sourcingmatters.show\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:45:30","slug":"ep-57-gabe-brown-principal-of-new-ag-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/2018\/12\/13\/ep-57-gabe-brown-principal-of-new-ag-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep.57: Gabe Brown &#8211; Principles of Regen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ep. 57: Gabe Brown &#8211; Innovator, farmer, businessman, author and soil health pioneer \u00a0-ft. co-host: Jay Vilar of Nourish ||<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3440 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-1024x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-1024x532.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-500x260.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-1140x592.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2-924x480.jpg 924w, https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gabe-Brown.header2.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On episode 57 we welcome Gabe Brown &#8211; farmer, businessman, author and soil health pioneer.\u00a0 \u00a0Gabe, along with his wife, Shelly, and son, Paul, own and operate a diversified 5,000-acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, N.D. Their operation focuses on farming and ranching in nature\u2019s image. The Browns holistically integrate their grazing and no-till cropping system, which includes a wide variety of cash crops along with multi-species cover crops and all-natural, grass-fed beef, poultry and sheep. This diversity and integration has regenerated the natural resources on the ranch without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or fungicides. Over 2,000 people visit the Brown\u2019s ranch annually with visitors from all 50 states and 16 foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"wonderplugin-video\" style=\"width:500px;height:500px;position:relative;background-color:#000;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;margin:0 auto\" data-aspectratio=\"1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wpve-iframe\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/312189034\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brown recently released the book &#8220;Dirt to Soil&#8221; describes their personal voyage into regenerative agriculture. \u00a0This insight gained over a these decades of hard work has established a nimble knowledge-base.\u00a0 In this his first book &#8211; Gabe Brown has distilled all that complexity into <strong>five (5) principles of a healthy soil-ecosystem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No disturbance (no-till, no-synthetics)<\/li>\n<li>Bolstering Soil&#8217;s Natural Defense (the outer-layer protecting all that life)<\/li>\n<li>Bio-diversity (marrying nature&#8217;s way keeps the system healthy)<\/li>\n<li>A living root in the ground as long as possible (covercrops &amp; seasonal diversity)<\/li>\n<li>Animal &amp; Insect integration (nature relies on the entire system working together)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nutritionist Jay Vilar joins again as co-host. \u00a0Vilar is the founder, and a practitioner at \u2018Nourish\u2019 \u2013 a bespoke consulting company with a mission to educate, teach, and train people on the benefits of using food to heal your body and optimize your health. \u00a0Jay has always been on the forefront of using optimal health techniques, and bio-hacking his nutrition to achieve remarkable results in his career. Jay now spends his time teaching people how to use food to heal their body and speaks to businesses on how to optimize focus &amp; productivity using nutritional and behavioral science. \u00a0Jay recently completed a Fellowship at the Rodale Institute, and just relocated from DC to join our crew in Boston.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a fascinating 45 minute conversation with a guy who has a unique ability to tell it like it is. \u00a0To clarify and simplify some pretty sophisticated subject matter so that we can all better appreciate the broad-reaching values that soil health and regenerative agriculture can bring to our world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\">@twitter<\/a><\/span><\/b><b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\"><\/b><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong>co-host:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>Jay Vilar<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Founder of <em>Nourish<\/em><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>A focus on Nutritional Therapy<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Rodale\u00a0Institute\u00a0Fellow<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Host of \u00a0&#8216;listen to your mother&#8217; show<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b class=\"u-linkComplex-target\"><a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jhashley\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">@twitter<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ep. 57: Gabe Brown &#8211; Innovator, farmer, businessman, author and soil health pioneer \u00a0-ft. co-host: Jay Vilar of Nourish || On episode 57 we welcome Gabe Brown &#8211; farmer, businessman, author and soil health pioneer.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,29,59,32,46,58,7,57,54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-circular-economy","category-climate","category-food-values","category-health","category-jay-vilar","category-land-use","category-podcast","category-regenerative","category-soil-health","category-sourcing-matters","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11560,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/11560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcingmatters.show\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}