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Building Healthy Food Systems
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(5 ratings)
27 students

Building Healthy Food Systems

Creating Health and Abundance in a Changing World
Created byMary Lucero
Last updated 10/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • How the environment, agriculture, nutrition, and freedom interact to achieve healthy food systems and sustainable development.
  • Two levers you can use to drive your food system towards better health.
  • Identify the areas of your personal food system that are most in need of development or repair.
  • Develop a food system restoration plan you can implement to build a sustainable, self-regenerating system.

Course content

4 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 44m total length

  • Introduction6:15

    This video provides an overview of the class.  It should help you decide if this is content you want to pursue further.

  • Introductory Quiz
  • Identifying Your Food System Concerns.3:16

    In this video you will be introduced to the concept of a food system as the entire system of individuals, organizations, and industries that are involved in getting food from the place where it is grown to the inside of your body, where it provides nutrients.   You will explore the terms "food security" and "food sovereignty."   You will  be challenged to describe your own food system an identify the strengths and weaknesses within. 

  • Assignment 1 - Identifying your food system needs.
  • Lecture 3: Assumptions and Disclosures3:38

    The specific approach to building healthy food systems can vary widely depending on available resources.  While the specific personal challenges involved will vary with location, environmental conditions, and capital, the underlying principles are the same. 

    This video explains the basic assumptions about the learning community and discloses certain limitations related to dealing with the complex and potentially emotional topic of food security.


  • Identifying the Four Cornerstones of Secure Food System6:35

    This video identifies the four interlinked cornerstones that interact to lay the foundation of healthy food systems and healthy societies.   Examine the interplay between this foundation and the industries and governments that form the basis of mainstream society.

  • The Four Cornerstones and Civilization
  • Cornerstone 1: A Clean Environment4:44

    This video describes the relationship between a clean environment and a productive agricultural system, emphasizing the importance of clean air, clean water, healthy soil, and biodiversity for cycling nutrients essential to food production. 

    Learn how plowing and the use of synthetic chemicals disturb the soil and catalyze a toxic cycle of increased dependence on inputs. 

    Identify four environmental ingredients that are essential for a healthy food system.

  • A Clean Environment
  • Cornerstone 2: Regenerative Agriculture7:20

    This lecture defines regenerative agriculture and explains the potential that regenerative methods have for restoring environmental quality while reducing the use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals that can negatively impact health.   Since pesticides can interfere with nutrient cycling in soil, crops and livestock, and people, removing these chemicals from the food system can have positive impacts on nutritional health.

  • Regenerative Agriculture
  • Cornerstone 3 - Nutritional Health9:23

    Nutritional health connects human society directly to the environment and to agriculture because all of us rely on healthy soils to provide the minerals and other nutrients that we require in our food.   This video describes the soil as the source of nutrients that keep us healthy, and illustrates why agricultural practices, the industrial distance from the farm to the table, and individual digestive health all impact the nutritional quality of our food. 

  • Nutritional Health Quiz
  • Cornerstone 4 - Freedom21:57

    This video explores personal and financial freedom and civil liberties, with an emphasis on how various freedoms impact the integrity of food systems. Examples of policies that have weakened cornerstones of environment, agriculture, freedom, and health for the masses are illustrated.   

  • Freedom Quiz

Requirements

  • No prior experience needed.
  • Interest in better access to healthy, nutritious food.
  • Interest in sustainable, independent living.

Description

A life of abundance and sustainable living need not be contradictory terms.   

When you build abundance from the ground up, when you build your food system first, you leap from sustainable to regenerative living.  And the beauty of a regenerative system is that it gives back more than it receives.

The food on your table can do a lot more than taste good, smell good, and restore your energy.  Food has  powerful effects. We need food over and over again.   This makes food is a powerful driver of our entire economy.   

Good food can restore bad health.  Bad food can damage our physical and mental health so badly that we lose our ability to work or to care for our families. And anyone paying for healthcare knows that sickness is expensive.

Globally, food is often at the center of civil unrest.  The way we produce our food can either destroy or restore our environment.

This course is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of how our choices about food and where we get it from can address big problems, ranging from our personal health and prosperity to global issues of food security, economics, climate change, even immigration.

In this class, you will explore interactions between the four cornerstones (environmental, agriculture, nutrition, and freedom) that form the foundation for sustainable, prosperous living.     

Learn how two levers we all have within our reach can be used to drive large or small food systems to more sustainable or regenerative states.  Build a plan for using these levers to make your own personal food system more sustainable. 

Who this course is for:

  • People who want more naturally grown, pesticide free whole foods.
  • People who want a deeper understanding of how the environment influences our food, our economy, and our health.
  • People who what to live sustainably in a clean environment.
  • Leaders and developers interested in creating healthy and prosperous communities.
  • Community gardeners, extension agents, permaculture enthusiasts, agritourism and classroom educators who want new insights into power of functional local food systems..

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