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Rising Food Prices, Pests,

Fires, Floods & Our Rapidly Changing World

Protecting Your Family, Garden & the Land

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What You Will Learn:

If you have been watching your grocery bill climb, losing more of the garden to pests each year, or reading about fires and floods and wondering what you would actually do, you are not alone. And it's smart to be paying attention all these shifts happening in the world.

The good news is that there is a lot we can do on an individual, community and organizational level to address some of the biggest challenges of our times. And, that same work helps us now and into the future. Whether the pressure comes from prices, pests, drought or fire., the soil is foundational as is your understanding of proactively navigating risk and emerging threats holistically.

This is a free conversation between Chris Outdoors and Compost Academy, bringing together two things that usually get taught separately: how emergency management professionals think about risk and preparing for the unknowns of the future, and what soil biology can do to help us buffer against it and get our families, gardens and land prepared for changing times.

Topics covered:

- How pest and disease pressure is changing, and why biology in the soil is one of your better defences

- Growing more food for less money, and cutting your dependency on bought inputs and the grocery store

- Fire, drought and flood: working with your landscape to reduce the risk before it arrives, and rapid biological recovery of damaged ground afterwards

- Being a steward of the land while building your own resilience, and what it means to be a regenerative responder

You'll leave with a way of thinking about risk on your land, in your family and in your organization that emergency managers use at a much bigger scale, and a clear sense of where to start.

Whether you have a small urban garden, a homestead, you work as a consultant, or you just have an interest in being more resilient in changing times, this is for you.

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Meet Your Guides...

Chris Outdoors & The Compost Academy Team

Your host:

Chris Outdoors helps people and organizations build a deep relationship with the land they live on, along with the practical skills to adapt and live holistically in a quickly changing world, through a newsletter, online and in-person teaching, and consulting.

Chris Gilmour is a forestry technician with two decades in permaculture, forest gardening and foraging, and a professional background in emergency and disaster management. He bridges holistic preparedness with ecological literacy and working with nature and role models this on his 26-acre homestead in Ontario, Canada.

Your guests:

Compost Academy trains compost makers and land stewards to grow soil from the bottom up. Building on the work of their mentor Dr. Elaine Ingham, the team has spent a decade teaching farmers and growers to restore fertility without synthetic inputs, cutting the cost of chemicals and fertilizers while improving yields. Their methods scale from a backyard to hundreds of thousands of acres, and they have used them to bring land back after wildfire and to turn neglected urban spaces into food forests. Their mission is to help people anywhere on earth regenerate the ground they live on.

Keisha Ernst has spent her career advancing microbe farming and soil health. She builds specialized compost recipes at Catalyst BioAmendments, consults through Soil Matters, and has led workshops across the US and Canada.

Brian Vagg came to regenerative agriculture from a scientific and high-tech background. He works alongside Keisha at Soil Matters, and his own homesteading life keeps him close to the soil.