Name: 作者@Google。John Jeavons (Authors@Google: John Jeavons)
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And I'm just honored today to be here with John Jeavons and

If you care anything about what your food tastes like, if

you've dug a fork into food, you really care about digging

And that's my whole connection to all of this.

You care about not just the quality of food, but whether

food is going to feed everybody on this planet,

which is one of the main questions we have to answer

enough food, enough nutritious food for everybody.

When I was assigned to China as a reporter a few years ago,

for me, the most heartbreaking thing I saw was in the

countryside to see these dense concentrations of farmers who

were asked to leave the land that they had farmed for

generations and put in densely populated living conditions no

And here, I saw people who knew the art of farming--

who had been through chemical industrial farming who were

told that some of the land that they farm was now too

toxic, over-fertilized, and over-chemicalized for them to

do any more, but who still in their genes and just one

generation back knew how to grow food in mainly a

And to me, it's the overriding question for this age

So from the time I was an immigrant that arrived in this

And today, for me to meet John and realize that he is this

complete visionary who isn't just a farmer, but is thinking

about food for all of us and for the future of this planet

What Liz said about China in some way reminded me of it.

In 1995, we had an intern come and train with us in Northern

And he shared with me that the cost of farmable soil in

Do you realize that gasoline only costs $50 a pound

Do you realize that in Monterey, Mexico, that

farmable soil, if you go to purchase it, costs $4 a pound,

where gasoline at the pumps today costs $0.50 a pound.

They realize the preciousness of the soil.

And they realize that the soil is worth eight times gasoline.

That's really hard to wrap our minds around, I think.

Even for me, it is, and I've been working

So now let's go and look at our presentation for today,

This is going to be the only thing we need to focus on.

The joy of the process, it's really a lot of fun.

You can see the happiness in my daughter's face.

And even manual food-raising, which is really

But this is literally the Earth that's underneath our

Every time we eat a pound of food grown with regular

food-raising practices, an average of 6 pounds in the

United States, 12 pounds in developing countries, where

90% of the world's people live, and 18 pounds in China,

where 20% of the world's people live, and 24 pounds of

farmable soil in California are lost due to wind and water

erosion because of the types of practices being used.

In contrast, over here on the right, you can see

Biointensive Sustainable Mini-Farming has the capacity

to build, to grow, to create up to 20 pounds of farmable

not deplete 6 to 24 pounds per pound of food eaten, but to

build up to 20 pounds of farmable soil, soil we need to