Revolutionising Soil for Better Health | Joshua Forte
Channel: One Young World
Date: 2024-04-04

After feeling fatigued and unwell for years, our Ambassador Joshua decided to change his eating habits to ‘nutrition-dense food’. His research led him to revolutionise traditional farming practices by replacing artificial compost with naturally produced compost. 

He founded of Red Diamond Compost Inc. to create a clean agrochemical solution to support the fragile organisms responsible for building soil structure, storing organic soil carbon, cycling nutrients to plants and protecting pollinating insects.

Watch his speech to learn more about his innovation, how it started and how it impacted over 5,000 people.  

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:23 - Living with mononucleosis
00:38 - How Joshua’s iguana led to a nutrition breakthrough
01:29 - Food insecurity in the Caribbean 
02:16 - The conception of Joshua’s startup, Red Diamond Compost Inc.
02:42 - The magic sargassum seaweed
03:17 - Educating farmers on regenerative, climate-smart farming practices
03:43 - The impact of Joshua’s “backyard tech”
04:21 - The Journey To 1000 Acres Initiative
05:06 - Lessons from an acute illness and a fussy iguana

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