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108-year-old Chaska woman
PARADIGM SHIFT
L.I.F.E.

• Before the white man came
• we never had to weed our gardens.

Locally Integrated Food Energy
native American, California
David Yarrow
dyarrow_at_nycap.rr.com www.carbon-negative.us www.nu
trient-dense.info www.farmandfood.org www.ancientf
orests.us www.dyarrow.org www.OnondagaVesica.info

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PARADIGM SHIFT
Strategy for Survival
Soil Minerals
in a climate of change
How do we put fertility in our soils? to grow
food to feed our communities?
when the price of oil is over 100 a barrel?
How do we keep fertility in our soils?
long term, sustainable fertility?
not another annual addiction?
Full spectrum fertility?
all 90 elements in a balanced blend?
How do we put Carbon in our soils? out of
Earths atmosphere?
Carbon
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to reverse global warming?
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sucking CO2
out of Earths atmosphere
Carbon
photosynthesis
Negative
Into sugar
Carbohydrates
plant biomass
pyrolysis
to transform into
Biochar
In the Amazon, replacing slash burn with slash
char can end rainforest destruction to create
sustainable, permanent agriculture
sequestered carbon
inoculation
to boost soil fertility
regenerate Soil Food webs
Carbon
and grow more
our question is
Can this work in our temperate zone?
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Dr. Arden Andersen
Carbon Negative
Soil Mineral Nutrition 3-day training Feb. 57,
2009 Barre, MA 100 growers
beyond organic
Nutrient Dense
Food
Health
Soil
The Real Food Campaign
Dan Kittredge
www.realfoodcampaign.org 978-257-2627
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North Brookfield, MA
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building sustainable community economies
L
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LIFE
Locally Integrated Food Energy
all wealth comes from the Earth
extraction of natural resources
Community
Income multiplier effect
and conversion into commodities
Agriculture
creates primary wealth
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supportive
everyday everyone must eat
Agriculture
70
Each in farm income (sales)
food is totally consumable, day-by-day
cascades as 7 in further local sales
Forestry
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feeding families is a 1 daily priority ritual
food is the largest slice of the economic pie
Mining
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linear
85 out of 100
no community in the Northeast
almost
has a food system policy or plan
circular
or council or office or manager
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Confronting Our Climate Change Challenge
If we produce market food labeled nutrient
dense and carbon negative
will people buy it?
are you ready? for the next PARADIGM SHIFT?