Regenerative Farming

The role of Microbes in Plant Health, Animal Health, Ecosystem Health and Human Health 

Have you ever wondered where health comes from? Or where good health starts? 

Have you ever thought about what a healthy environment is? Or what underpins a healthy ecosystem? 

Have you ever wondered if environmental problems could be related to human health problems? Is there a connection at all, or are they separate? 

Could the tiniest organisms on the planet be responsible for the biggest processes in our environment and in our bodies? Are they important, or just an interesting scientific enquiry? 

In this session we will look into all of these questions, and more, using the latest findings from the sciences of human health, genomics and epigenetics, environmental and ecological systems, microbiology the soil food web and the human microbiome. And we will find out how all of these systems are linked, and either provide the opportunity for optimum health or disease. 

We will look at the interrelationship between soil microbes and how they feed plants, and how those plants feed animals, and how both those plant and animals feed humans. We will also look at how each step in the process also includes microbes, and how they are essential for the continued existence of all life on Earth. 

Then we will take a trip to the dark side. We will look at what is really happening with our modern food systems. How the “Green Revolution” may have fed the world, but has actually been a war. How modern farming has disrupted many of the ecosystem processes that have kept plants and animals healthy, and what it is doing to us today. 

But there is hope, and not everything is doom and gloom. We will look at how resilient natural systems are, and their remarkable potential for healing, and what that means for you. We will look at the amazing changes that are happening on the fringes of agriculture, the movements in food and health that are resulting from the food and products that are being produced, and how you can participate. 

In this session you will learn about the role that microbes play in every person, plant and animal each and every day. How they are not there to cause diseases and infections, but rather they are there to ensure that you live a long and healthy life. 

You will learn that the environment around you, and around the food that you eat affects you either positively or negatively. And how you in turn affect that environment. 

You will understand that in order to function properly, ecosystems must have a full range of biodiversity, starting at the smallest organisms and going right up to the largest plants and animals. And when they do, good health is not only possibly but inevitable 

Healthy ecosystems and communities start with healthy microbes.