Sustainable Food Trust Harmony with Nature Soil Food & Farming with Patrick Holden
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 21/12/2020

Patrick Holden is my guest on Episode 53 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

Patrick is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust.

After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots, and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd, now made into a single farm cheddar style cheese.

He was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nearly 20 years and during which time the organisation led the development of organic standards and the market for organic foods.

His advocacy for a major global transition to more sustainable food systems now entails international travel and regular broadcasts and talks at public events.

He is Patron of the UK Biodynamic Association and was awarded the CBE for services to organic farming in 2005.

Patrick is passionate about the application of Nature’s principles of Harmony to food and farming, which is explored in the SFT’s latest initiative, The Harmony Project.

https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/
https://www.theharmonyproject.org.uk/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0007348037
https://www.holdenfarmdairy.co.uk/

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00:00 - Sustainable Food Trust Harmony with Nature Soil Food & Farming
00:50 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Patrick Holden CEO of Sustainable Food Trust
03:28 - How have you weathered the pandemic and Brexit?
04:10 - Restructuring of agriculture policies  and promote regenerative agriculture in UK
06:20 - If the Food system is an organism the Farm is the cell
07:11 - View on Black Life Matters 
08:15 - Immigrant agriculture workers in the UK
13:25 - Fair wages and true cost
14:00 - The Report, The Hidden Costs of UK food
16:35 - Carolyn Steel says If you cheapen food you cheapen life
18:00 - The Sustainable Food Trust Vision
19:10 - Prince Charles speaking on a meeting in Washington for the Sustainable Food Trust
19:31 - True cost of food accounting 
20:25 - a common Framework for measuring impact of different farming systems for the world
22:50 - address climate change and irreversible biodiversity
25:29 - Sustainable Development Goals reporting
29:10 - We have 45 harvests left with traditional industrial agriculture
31:05 - We are all members of Spaceship Earth
32:27 - The pandemic is a reminder of our common humanity 
35:20 - Big drawdown factor is farming
35:45 - The Earth overshoot day calculation
38:50 - Cop 26 in Glasgow 2021
39:38 - Confusion in what kind of farming system shall replace and what we should it
40:20 - Farmers are stewards
41:05 - The EAT Lancelot report
42:30 - Sustainable managed live stock grass feed
45:30 - The film Kiss the Ground on Netflix
46:00 - How to get farmers to change to organic regenerative farming
48:10 - Advice to traditional industrial farmers
49:35 - All supermarkets in the UK are interested in adopting harmonised framework
51:20 - The soil is the stomach of the plant
52:35 - WTF What is the Future? A shift in consciousness going on
53:47 - Enhance the beauty of the Earth 
55:12 - We have power to improve our health with food. Make sure you know the story of your food
57:45 - Follow your deep intuitive desire
59:48 - Prince Charles’s book Harmony. A new way of looking at the world
1:02:25 - Lynn Margulis and the Symbiotic Earth
1:04:40 - The Harmony project 
1:05:25 - Holden Farm diary. Makers of Hafod Organic Cheese