(upbeat music)
- Okay, it's a real pleasure to be here.
I'm gonna go first and Bob's gonna do some
picture stuff at the end.
Okay, it's very humbling and I'm very happy to be here.
And I just want to thank everyone
that's created this incredible event.
I'd like all of you to close your eyes
and imagine,
pick up
an imaginary magic microscope.
The microscope is magic is lots of ways.
It's going to show you all kinds of things
that are happening in the soil.
But it's a two way one, so it kinda goes back
into your body as well,
and it
shows
all parts of the living system,
parts of, including you, parts of you
that you maybe didn't know existed
and which are able to
see things which we haven't seen before.
We're gonna look at some
amazing black earth
maybe terra preta soil from the Amazonian jungle
or the river basin
We're looking through this magic microscope
and we've got it down there in the soil
and what we can see is, first of all, it's really black.
It's really, really black, first glance, it's really black.
This magic microscope enables us to see
everything that's moving, enables us to see loads
of colors, enables us to not only see the colors
but because it's a two way microscope into our own mind
and it opens our own, all kinds of things in our own head,
we can know that those colors relate to
different minerals, different molecules.
We can see all kinds of different microbes and fungi
and they're all different colors and we know what they
are and we can identify them.
Most importantly,
we can see it looks black to begin with but
there's lots of air in there, it's aerobic.
There's lots of life in the air.
There are loads of, we can see high levels of minerals.
We can see them all.
They're all different colors and they all look different.
They're all vibrating differently
and they all have different strengths of
electrical energy and current flowing through them
and out from them.
They're changing shape.
We can see loads, a huge diversity of things in there.
Colors!
We can really notice that it doesn't look
as though there's any separation or skin
between one thing and another.
It's all energy and color.
Things are moving and changing.
We can see exchanges happening.
We can see
things growing
and regenerating, building, living, and dying, degenerating.
Bits of the degenerating things get grabbed
by something else.
It feels like, it looks like this incredible
alive, enormously diverse
enormously integrated, connected living thing.
Into that thing, we see a seed get planted.
It's a bean seed.
Maybe it's a corn seed - it doesn't really matter.
The seed gets planted and the seeds are
really strong, healthy, vibrant seed.
We can see it pulsing.
We can see it vibrating.
Because the seed was grown to be high Brix nutrient dense,
it's got a lot of carbon in it.
It's got a lot of manganese in it.
We can tell that by the colors that are coming off it
and the vibration that's coming off it,
pulsing seed in this living environment in the soil.
It attracts water really fast.
Carbon always attracts water.
As the seed coat becomes moist,
it attracts microbes
that break down the seed coat,
break down all the phytates and
the antinutrients in the seed coat.
The seed swells and a root, a taproot comes down
into this living environment.
There are loads of microbes and fungi and
really alive living, moving things in this environment.
The taproot that comes down also doesn't appear
to have any separation between it and all the
color and life and vibration in the soil.
It's moving into it.
Things are connecting with it.
The fungi and the microbes and the soil
becoming connected to that root.
And as the root goes down, first two leaves go up.
Up until the first two leaves go up,
all the energy for that growth comes from within the seed.
The stronger and healthier that seed was
to begin with, the stronger
the taproot will be that goes down,
the bigger and stronger the two leaves will be that go up.
Now we can see a real switch and if we're watching
really carefully through this magic microscope,
we'll notice
that there's a really strong pulsing
energy going
from the leaves
down to the root,
out into the soil, connecting with the microbes
and the fungi and the soil and the minerals
and then going back up
into the plant,
creating a really strong electromagnetic lightning rod,
and that plant becomes an electromagnetic
lightning rod which attracts the strength of it.
The amount of electric energy that it holds
is what attracts in
or has a direct relationship to how much
it attracts in from the universe.
We've got this plant and
because we've got a functional rhizosphere, functional soil
that's got so much color so much energy
so much life
the phosphate, the available phosphate in the soil
is able to grab loads of minerals in the soil
and carry them into the plant
and the phosphates synthesizes, catalyzes the
photosynthesis process which means
the plant's able to photosynthesize
more and more efficiently and more strongly
which means it has more sugars in it
and it means it got stronger electrical current in it.
It brings in more energies from the universe.
The quality of the plant goes up and up
in every way and it goes from producing simple sugars
to complex sugars to complete sequestering
complete proteins and
in its body to sequestering omega-three
and omega-six into its reproductive and
vegetative tissue to what we currently know is
the highest level it can operate it at
which is the level where it's producing essential oils
which is how plants communicate
with the whole ecology and with us.
Every plant can be medicine.
Every plant can photosynthesize
to this ability and every plant is medicine
if it's grown in a functional rhizosphere.
One of the key things about plants
that are grown in a functional rhizosphere
is that they sequester more carbon
not into their bodies but really importantly
into the soil.
They build soil.
It's through this process of photosynthesis
and life in the soil that we build soil
and we build life and all life as we know it
is totally dependent on that process.
That is what I call a regenerative process.
If we're working with the laws of nature,
the soil's got air, it's got moisture,
it's got high levels of balanced minerals,
and it's got a full range of the microbes
that we need.
There's no reason why we can't be
building soil, building life, and increasing the health
of all life in the ecological niche that we're in.
There's two key components to making that work.
One of them is the genetics of the seed
and the other one is the ecology of the environment which
I don't want to talk about that one any more.
The seed is a really important part of it.
We've a range of seeds to choose from
when we want to grow our food.
We've got open pollinated heritage seeds.
We've got hybrid seeds, different hybrids.
We've got CMS seeds
which most people don't know what they are.
They're actually genetically engineered seeds
which have been hidden under the carpet
and they're being labeled as different hybrids.
When you go buy certified organic Brassicas in this land
they're mostly - (mumble)
- grown from CMS seeds.
- Okay
Then we've got GE seeds and the whole Goliath story.
The only seeds that I know of that fully capable
of communicating with the microbes in the soil
and the life in the soil that are fully able
to embody their bodies the complete range of minerals
they need to grow to be nutrient dense
and high Brix food
and that are fully able
fully nourish human bodies
is the food grown from open pollinated heritage seeds
in a fully functional rhizosphere.
I won't bother talking about all the degenerative stuff.
Okay, sorry.
My main message now is that
we've got the largest collection of
heritage food plants in this land.
We are looking for, we can't hold
that collection any longer.
It's too much for us.
We need support.
We need everybody to pick up a brochure,
which we've got a whole lot of.
I'll get them out later.
Become a member, pass the brochure,
go on our website, become a member,
pass the brochure onto someone else
so they can become a member.
We're specifically looking for a range of
businesses who can work with us.
We've got loads we can offer businesses
and people that work in businesses
and we want to develop relationships
with businesses so we can save the seeds
so we can get on with the job
of making these seeds become the seeds
that our food is grown from in this land
and around the world.
(audience claps)
- Cue it up.
(audience claps)
- Okay, we're out of time, but I'll quickly add
that we've been through this journey,
we've been on this journey for about 37 years now.
What we got to at a certain point was
we found the canary in the cage and
we kicked the cage and there was no response.
The industrial paradigm that we live in
is inherently degenerative and unsustainable.
We have to find a different way.
The Koanga Institute at that point said
"Okay, it's not just about the seeds,
"it's also about the productive ecosystems
"that we pull together and it's about
"how we change the development,
"our economic and social development."
Quickly, the industrial paradigm is
mainly about empowering the cities.
This is where all the energy goes
and it's depleting the rural areas.
Three percent of the lands,
of our global land is in cities.
97% is elsewhere.
This is where the action is, in the 97%.
We actually have to find another way
of nurturing that 97%
and changing the agenda in the cities.
That's mainly what we want to do.
(audience claps) - Thank you, Bob.
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