Peace, Love, and Pollinators 🐝
Welcome to Peace, Love & Pollinators — a podcast by ReEarth Solutions
This is the show for anyone who wants a more beautiful yard and a healthier planet. Whether you’ve got a backyard, a balcony, or you just care about the green spaces in your neighborhood, we’ll help you see what’s possible when you work with nature instead of against it.
Each episode blends practical, feel-good advice with the bigger “why it matters.” We’re talking native plants, pollinators, soil life, compost, climate-resilient gardening, and the small changes that create outsized impact — for your landscape, your community, and the living world around you.
With expert guests from across the country, we break down what actually works, bust common myths, and give you simple next steps you can use right away.
Think of us as your friendly guide from “I just want my plants to live” to “I’m building a thriving ecosystem.”
Welcome to Peace, Love & Pollinators. Let’s grow something better.
Peace, Love, and Pollinators 🐝
Episode 7 Nutrient Density: Soil Health=Human Health
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Todays episode is all about the connection between soil health, human health and the health of the planet.
Dan has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years. He grew up on Many Hands Organic Farm in central Massachusetts with his parents, Julie Rawson, NOFA-MA Executive Director, and Jack Kittredge, publisher of Natural Farmer. After working globally in the late 90s and early 2000s with farmers, NGOs, and researchers across India, Russia, and Central America, Dan returned to the U.S. and in 2010 launched the BFA in order to ignite a movement around food quality.
Dan has become one of the leading proponents of “nutrient density,” and works to demonstrate the connections between soil health, plant health, and human health through workshops and speaking engagements around the world, the annual Soil and Nutrition Conference, and an increased presence online through social media, a YouTube channel, and numerous webinars and podcasts.
Dan launched the Real Food Campaign, now the Bionutrient Institute, that, with open-source science partners Our-Sci and FarmOS, are leading the effort to identify and increase nutrition in the food supply. The Bionutrient Institute has engineered and released a hand-held consumer spectrometer, the Bionutrient Meter, designed to test nutrient density at the point of purchase and bring transparency to the marketplace. Via the Bionutrient Meter, the goal is to empower consumers to choose their foods based on nutrient quality and thereby leverage economic incentives to drive full system regeneration.