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Modern FarmingFood for Thought: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It MattersIn this special recap episode of the Modern Farming Podcast, we bring together two powerful conversations from our What Is and Isn’t in Your Food series to highlight one essential truth: you don’t have to be a farmer to care about agriculture. The health of our soil directly impacts the health of our food—and ultimately, the health of you.Episode Highlights:We revisit key insights from two groundbreaking episodes: 1. “What Your Food Is and Isn’t” with David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle This thought-provoking conversation explores how soil depleti...2025-04-2541 min
Modern FarmingWhat Your Food Is and Isn't with Anne Bikle and David Montgomeryn this episode of Modern Farming, What your Food Is and Isn't with Anne Bikle and David Montgomery, we dig into what’s really beneath our food—starting with the soil. Joined by husband-and-wife team David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé, we explore how both natural processes and human practices like conventional agriculture have contributed to widespread soil depletion, and what that means for the future of farming and our health.David, a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington, is a broad-minded geologist who studies how earth processes shape ecosystems and societies. Anne...2025-04-111h 20
Digging In The Dirt with Kevin GallagherWhat Your Food Ate - Authors Anne Bickle and David Montgomery 2023My guests on this segment are Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery Authors of a new book entitled "What Your Food ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Far too many of us remain poorly nourished despite eating more than enough food.It's your premise that the soil health is so poor that the food is not nutritious. Something that modern nutritional analysis overlooks are things like phytochemicals, micro minerals and other nutrients. My guests explain why and what we should do to address the problem.2024-08-0824 min
Food For You and the PlanetEpisode 11: Dig2Grow Professor David Montgomery and Anne Bikle - Why Is Soil Health Important? Professor David Montgomery and Anne Bikle are Dig2Grow, a husband and wife and a pair of writers. David Montgomery is an Earth and Space Sciences Professor at the University of Washington. He is a geomorphologist who looks at the process shaping Earth’s surface and how they affect ecological systems—and human societies. His book, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life focuses on the potential for regenerative farming practice to reshape agriculture. He is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has received many awards throughout his career, including a MacArthur Fello...2024-05-0152 min
4 The Soil: A ConversationEpisode 23 - 25: A Healthy, Fertile Celebration of World Soils Day 2023Since October 2021, Jeff Ishee, Mary Sketch Bryant, and Eric Bendfeldt have had sixty conversations about the health and fertility of soil as part of the podcast. To celebrate World Soils Day 2023, we are sharing three recaps of conversations that were quite memorable with Dr. David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle authors of What Your Food Ate and Growing a Revolution; Clare Tallamy of Virginia Tech's 2022 Soil Judging Team; and Lee Rinehart a grazing specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology. World Soils Day was organized to bring attention and focus on the importance of healthy soil and...2023-12-0519 min
Thruline to the 4th SectorThe Power of Regenerative Gardening with David Montgomery and Anne BikléThis episode features a conversation between Phil Dillard, Founder of Thruline Networks, David Montgomery, a MacArthur Fellow, and Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington, and Anne Biklé, published science writer and public speaker. Together, they’ve recently published: What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health, a book that builds on their trilogy of books about soil health, microbiomes, and farming.David is an internationally recognized geologist who studies the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies. He is the author of several textbooks in his...2023-11-2958 min
Accidental GodsWhat your Food Ate - Or why you should never eat industrially farmed food ever again- With Anne Bicklé and David MontgomeryHow does soil health intimately and profoundly impact human health? What's the link between the soil microbiome and the human gut microbiome? How can we begin to restore our health, and the health of the living earth in concert with each other? These are the questions posed by the outstanding book 'What your Food Ate: How to heal our land and reclaim our health' and the co-authors, Anne Biklé and David Montgomery are this week's guests as we delve deeply into the nature of soil, the functions of fungi, the populations of bacteria we depend on that in...2023-10-041h 16
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and FoodAuthor Anne Biklé in Conversation With Zach Bush, MD - Groundswell 2023Regenerate Soil, Regenerate Health: Author, Anne Biklé in Conversation With Zach Bush, MD - Conversation recorded live at Groundswell 2023.Hosted by Koen van SeijenThis eye-opening moderated session explores the interconnections between our health and our environment and how this translates into wellbeing for people and communities alike. Anne and Zach share their thoughts and experiences on the role of regenerative agriculture, farmers, and consumers in transitioning from a system that feeds degenerative disease to one that promotes health and vitality.Anne Biklé is a science writer and biologist with a soft spot for th...2023-08-221h 10
Outside The System24: What Your Food Ate with David Montgomery and Anne BikléIn this episode, I spoke with David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, the authors of What Your Food Ate: How to Heal the Land and Reclaim our Health. I don't mean this lightly - What Your Food Ate is the most impactful book I've read in a long time. The central premise is that the quality of your food is determined by what your food is eating. Plants get their nutrients from the sun, water, and soil. Animals get their nutrients primarily from the plants they're eating. Simple enough. But understanding this simple concept has completely changed how I...2023-08-0759 min
Nat's Notes#1 Do You Know What Your Food Ate? (What Your Food Ate by David R Montgomery & Anne Biklé)What I learned from What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle. Join the Nat’s Notes Newsletter to get my highlights and notes from the book. (1:25) Nutritional Differences in Organic vs. Conventional Foods (4:09) The Effects of Plowing on Food Quality (8:10) Why Glyphosate Might Be Killing You (11:11) The Risk of Artificial Fertilizers vs. Manure (15:16) Nutritional Differences in Whole vs. “White” Grains (18:31) Effects of Pesticides and Herbicides on Mental Health (22:41) Is Milk Health...2023-07-2132 min
Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | Health, Lifestyle, NutritionEat Your Way to Better Mental Health AND Beat Anxiety | Professor Felice JackaFood can affect our mood - we’ve all experienced it. In the past, psychiatry has been concerned with what happens in the brain. Today, we know that what’s going on in the gut can impact our mental health. Professor Felice Jacka is a pioneer of nutritional psychiatry. She discusses her groundbreaking research on how food can affect our mood.In this episode you’ll learn about the link between anxiety, depression and diet. Felice shares her own mental health issues growing up, and offers simple lifestyle tweaks to that will make your gut and feel better...2023-07-1959 min
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of NatureGot Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow DiversityThe profit-hungry agribusiness empire of the 20th century institutionalized farming practices that continue to degrade soils across the U.S. and globally. We face a fork in the road: collapse or regeneration? The good news is that we know what we need to begin an agricultural and ecological renaissance – a literal rebirth. Biologist Ann Biklé and geologist David Montgomery share one of the good news stories that show how the solutions residing in nature surpass our conception of what’s even possible.FeaturingDavid R. Montgomery, a Seattle-based MacArthur Fellow and professor of Geomor...2023-07-1828 min
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensAnne Biklé & David Montgomery: "Nourishing the Land and Ourselves"On this episode, Nate is joined by “free range biologist” Anne Biklé and “broad-minded geologist” David Montgomery - a married duo who have been educating about the link between soil and human health for nearly a decade. As we continue to strip the land and soil of its life supporting capacity, our food has become less nutritious, even as we’ve received more calories. Has the age of ‘The Green Revolution’ - accredited with preventing millions from famine - led us to a new epidemic of starvation in the form of micronutrients? How do our modern systems degrade the land, leaving u...2023-07-121h 35The Great Simplification with Nate HagensAnne Biklé & David Montgomery: "Nourishing the Land and Ourselves"On this episode, Nate is joined by “free range biologist” Anne Biklé and “broad-minded geologist” David Montgomery - a married duo who have been educating about the link between soil and human health for nearly a decade. As we continue to strip the land and soil of its life supporting capacity, our food has become less nutritious, even as we’ve received more calories. Has the age of ‘The Green Revolution’ - accredited with preventing millions from famine - led us to a new epidemic of starvation in the form of micronutrients? How do our modern systems degrade the land, leaving u...2023-07-121h 35
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and FoodLive from Groundswell - A chat with Alex CherryLive from Groundswell 2023, we talk with Alex Cherry, farmer and organiser of the no till show turned into a festival of ideas.With Alex we delve into the festival's evolution, its unique blend of knowledge and community, engaging discussions, and the crucial role of youth in agriculture. We discuss the role the event has played in the farming community and its future. Among discussions around the need of certifying regenerative agriculture and access to land with young people, this edition welcomes Nicole Masters, Anne Biklè, Richard Perkins, Zach Bush and Andy Cato.The sec...2023-06-2917 min
Where Hope GrowsLet Food Be Thy MedicineFrom the main stage of the 2023 What Good Shall I Do conference, this legendary fireside chat explores how our food system became broken and what can be done to rebuild it to a more resilient and nourishing level than ever imagined. Featuring some of the brightest and boldest leaders in the health and nutrition space, this conversation will leave you feeling satiated with hope and a longing to return to your highest functioning form. Reclaiming your health starts with eating foods that nourish your biology and the greater biological system to which we belong. Guests: Kelly LeVeque...2023-06-291h 17
Made You Think98: What Your Food Ate“Across the board, dietary advice typically focuses on what and how much to eat, with remarkably little attention paid to how farming practices influence the nutritional quality of food and whether the “right foods” pack the nutrients they once had.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're discussing What Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé. Exploring the concept of "food chain reactions," the book unveils the hidden connections between our food choices and their environmental, social, and health impacts. Do you really know what you're eating? We cove...2023-06-081h 11
Old Fashioned On PurposeS12 E10: How to Fall in love with your SoilI've steadily been falling in love with soil over the last few years as I've learned more about what's happening under our feet. There is SO much beauitful and fascinating complexity there. So I was beyond excited to be joined by David Montgomery and Anne Bikle in this podcast episode. They are the authors of one of my favorite reads of the last year, "What Your Food Ate." You'll be head-over-heels for soil by the end of this episode!Learn more about David Montgomery and Anne Bikle here: https://www.dig2grow.com/2023-06-051h 13