Regenerative farmer and physicist, turned AgTech founder ----------------------------------------------------------Welcome to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food.Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits here: www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag. Other ways to support our work:- Share the podcast - Give a 5-star rating- Or buy us a coffee… or a meal! www.Ko-fi.com/regenerativeagriculture. ----------------------------------------------------------- This time I had a the pleasure to interview Abby Rose, AgTech founder, farmer, and co-host of Farmerama!Key takeaways of the interview: we need to build a fire friendly landscape fires have always been there but not the intensity and degree burning over 1m acres- Abby is mostly surrounded by mono culture pine forests which burn like nothing else- moisture in the soil to have all year round plants which don’t burn so easilyif you have a very diverse microbial life in the soil, it is potentially reflected in the nutritive value in the produce Abby worries any single measure, if she had to pick a measure the measure would diversity! the reason for starting Vidacycle was the lack of data from the olive farm. They planted 8000 trees but had no idea which trees were performing or notthe more we can support small to medium scale farmers to flourish more the betterthe tech solutions weren’t there or were way too expensivefundamental about all of our technology is empowering farmersfarmers are perfectly capable in understanding how their soil system worksfirst they developed sector mentor to help manage olive farms, vineyards etc. soil mentor for soils, very simple DIY soil testing for farmers, using only equipment already present on the farmvery excited about the opportunities to work with a number of small to medium size vineyards in Oregonbiggest issue in food and ag: food prices, food is so cheap, but the truth is food isn’t cheap. technology is not going to save us, what will save us is changing mind sets- technolog is a tool which will aid peopleplease don’t invest in a random technology which is going to save us allIf Abby had a magic wand: true cost accounting system for food Advice for investors: Go and work on some farms, and understand the reality of farmingBooks Abby suggested, show notes and links can be fond here:www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/03/23/abby-rose. ----------------------------------------------------------- For feedback, ideas, suggestions please contact us through Twitter @KoenvanSeijen, or get in touch through the website www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com. Join our newsletter on www.eehttps://groundswellag.com/2023-speakers/ https://groundswellag.com/2023-speakers/ Support the showFeedback, ideas, suggestions? - Twitter @KoenvanSeijen - Get in touch www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.comJoin our newsletter on www.eepurl.com/cxU33P! Support the showThanks for listening and sharing!