Louis De Jaeger - Commensalist

Farmers face a harsh truth: climate change is accelerating 🌡️ Extreme weather is now normal. Integrating trees into farmland builds resilience, especially where water is scarce. 🎧 Food Forest Podcast Ep. 27 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/UuEpcHGOKqQ

Andy Dibben’s farm thrived by focusing on the local community 🌱 During COVID, his team ran an “apocalypse practice”–and it worked! They now feed ~800 people weekly. 🎧 Food Forest Podcast Ep. 27 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/UuEpcHGOKqQ

Pesticides aren’t working 🐝 Pest resistance grows, and without insects—who pollinate 80% of our food—we can’t survive. Stop using pesticides! 🌱 🎧 Food Forest Podcast Ep. 27 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/UuEpcHGOKqQ #FoodForestPodcast #SustainableFarming

Elspeth Hay learned acorns are edible & saw how living with these trees shifts how humans fit in ecosystems 🌿 🎧 Food Forest Podcast Ep. 26 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/53nNWHZtMFU #EdiblePlants #SustainableLiving #FoodForestPodcast

Don’t just farm small areas – grow food in ways that restore habitat, build healthy ecosystems & regenerate land. Land sharing > land sparing. 🌿 🎧 Ep. 27 Food Forest Podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/YOUR_EP27_LINK #FoodForestPodcast #SustainableFarming

Rediscover our habitat 🌰 Elspeth Hay shows how acorns, chestnuts & other nut trees reconnect us to nature 🌿 🎧 Ep. 26 Food Forest Podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/53nNWHZtMFU #ElspethHay #FoodForestPodcast #NutTrees #NatureConnection

Trees can feed us 🌳 Elspeth Hay explains how trees provide flour, oil & milk – and why she wrote Feed Us With Trees. 🎧 Food Forest Podcast Ep. 26 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5ylFpxff6… YouTube: youtu.be/53nNWHZtMFU

"🌍✨ David Holmgren, a visionary co-founder of the permaculture movement, inspires us to cultivate harmony with nature. 🌱 I am very happy he wrote a quote for my book *SOS: Save Our Soils*. 🌱📖 Buy the book on Amazon and be part of the SOS: Save Our Soils movement! 🌍💚📚

🎙️ Big announcement! In September, we're launching: 🫐🌰 The Food Forest Podcast 🎉🎉🎉 For the last 6 months, we've been preparing your weekly 1-hour #foodforest dose 🌱 Without the incredible hard work from producer Anastasiya Padpora, this wouldn't have been possible. 💪🏼

🏙️ Woohoo! We're going to New York City! 🗽 Dune Forest is selected for Ceres Food Film Festival 🥳

How do you explain in a complex world that the best solutions are often the simplest ones? Want to feel less tired? Sleep! Want to feel better? Drink more water! Want to save nature? Remove (some of) your lawn!

How do you explain in a complex world that the best solutions are often the simplest ones? Want to feel less tired? Sleep! Want to feel better? Drink more water! Want to save nature? Remove (some of) your lawn!

Let's imagine an even better world Then create it ✊🏼💥 The options are unlimited Our creativity is unlimited And yes, even resources are unlimited (in the scale we need to realize this) The only thing stopping us? Our imagination and lack of action.

🥵 The easiest way to cool down the planet? #KillYourLawn Sacramento pays residents $3.000 to kill their lawns 🌱💧 One city is literally giving people money to rip out their grass. Homeowners receive up to $3,000. Commercial property owners up to $50,000.

Now is the time when people go bonkers when bees or wasps land on them 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 To be honest, every time I witness this, I pretend that the bee or wasp is a cute dog. I take my hand and invite the bee or wasp on it. Illustration by @creative_gardening1

There are more than 50.000 edible plant species on earth 🥬 Why do we only eat 100? We are missing out on so much delicious food out there. Take, for example, leafy greens, eating more of them is one of the most powerful health strategies. Foto source: @highertohealth

Kan je binnenkort je tuin gratis laten ontwerpen? ✏️ 👉🏼 Deze vraag krijgen we VEEL bij MaiGarden, onze AI-tuinontwerp startup Het korte antwoord is: ja Maar tegelijkertijd ook (nog) niet (direct). maigarden.be

Today, the minister of agriculture asked me: What would you do if you were the minister of agriculture? 🚜 1) Create a massive media campaign showing our citizens that farmers are the (potential) climate heroes & nature guardians of the future

Oh my friggin' god 😢 Wildfires are closing in around our regenerative festival site 🔥 ❤️‍🩹 Our hearts are with everyone affected by the fires surrounding our Ten lives festival—families and firefighters in the line of fire. 🧑🏼‍🚒

Trees make rain Rain makes trees grow Cut down the trees Cut down the rainfall In the Amazon, up to 1 in every 2 drops of rain is created by trees, according to isotopic research. About 80% of the Amazon is being cut down because of meat production.