Mar 13 2020 54 mins 24
“Today if you go to a supermarket and buy normal salad vegetables, I am talking about lettuces, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, all the salad crops, none of them are grown in the soil anymore! They are all grown hydroponically (hydroponics is the science of growing plants without using soil) in this rockwool, or equivalent.” Is mass production of food and modern-day farming methods starving us of good nutrition? Your host of Fat & Furious, Steve Bennett and founder of The Sustainable Food Trust, Patrick Holden shed light on the damaging consequence of poor nutrition. After studying bio-dynamic agriculture at Emerson College, Patrick established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, which today is the longest-running organic farm in the country. Patrick was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nearly 20 years as a director and during which time the organisation led the development of organic standards
