The Future of Food Starts in Your Shopping Cart I Talks 21

How can we grow our food in a world shaped by climate change, and what can nature teach us about resilience? In this episode of Talks 21, I sit down with three guests who each bring a different perspective: Calla Rose Ostrander – co-founder of Terra Regenerative Capital, who has spent over a decade helping farmers, investors, and governments advance regenerative agriculture; Henry Gordon-Smith – founder of Agritecture, a global consulting firm focused on climate-smart agriculture, who has led over 350 projects across 45+ countries and teaches at Columbia University in New York, one of the most prestigious universities in the US. Andrew Carter – a pioneer in controlled environment agriculture with over 20 years of experience, including co-founding Smallhold, one of the largest specialty mushroom producers in the US.In this episode, we discuss:🔹 What regenerative agriculture means in practice and why it matters now. 🔹 How, according to Henry, restoring agriculture to cities could strengthen food security. 🔹 What the indigenous people of California understood about cultivating nature that we are only now rediscovering. 🔹 Why mushrooms are natural digesters and what their role is in restoring soil health. 🔹 Why Calla believes every food purchase is, in a sense, a quiet vote for the kind of world we want. 🔹 Why the future of farming lies in bringing nature and technology together.In a world where we constantly hear that human activity is putting pressure on the planet, this conversation offers something different: an optimistic yet grounded look at the future of our food and the planet that produces it.Timestamps0:00:00  Theme song0:00:13  Introduction0:03:01  How Technology and Nature Can Work Together0:10:52  Why There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Solution in Agriculture0:22:46  What Indigenous Cultures Knew About Farming That We Forgot0:36:42  Why Saving the Soil Matters for Climate Balance 0:50:41  How Mushrooms and Compost Turn Waste Back Into Food 0:56:41  What Role Does the Economy Play in Regenerative Agriculture1:06:15  How Trusting Nature Brings Us Back to Ourselves🔔 Subscribe to the channel and watch more interviews:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaJaxm7F1tK58bEnVoVliqg?sub_confirmation=1Listen to the Talks 21 podcast also on:🎧 Spotify → https://bit.ly/spotify-talks21🎧 Apple Podcasts → https://apple.co/3VWWzwv🌐 Official website of Karel Janeček:https://www.kareljanecek.com📲 Follow Karel Janeček on social media:Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/karel252/Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/kareljanecekcz📩 Want to receive new episodes by email? Subscribe to the newsletter on the website.💬 Do you have a guest suggestion or feedback? Write to us at:[email protected]