On this episode, we're going to get deeper into how and why our very makeup, health and wellbeing are connected to those bigger systems. And why the structure of food systems and their underpinning values impact the health of our finite planet. I also want to touch on why changing systems takes a different approach to our common tactics.

I like to use real-world examples, so to illustrate this, I will use apricots and leafy greens.

All too often, when it comes to advice around eating healthy and planet-friendly diets, the focus is on what we eat. We look at food through this very narrow, reductionist lens. For example: eat fresh over frozen vegetables, meat bad, plants good, but it is really much more complex than that.

It is all well and good to talk about a vision for a different future, to imagine a world where we all have the capacity to thrive and flourish. To talk about transforming our relationship and connection with food, and building food systems that nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits while connecting us to ourselves, each other, and the living biosphere.

However, we must face the fact that we live on a finite planet. That living on a finite planet means that there are physical limits, boundaries and universal laws we cannot change. And as we bring our vision of living in a world where our food and food systems truly nourish us into being, we must make sure they work within physical and universal limits and constraints. In other words, we must make sure that our food systems are built for a finite planet.

So, in this episode, we will look at the one physical limit that determines what is, and what is not sustainable for the long term, and I will likely explain things differently than you have heard before.

So, what are the limits? And how do we, as everyday people, make sense of them? How do we use them to make meaningful change in our lives, communities and societies?

From Disconnection to Reconnection: Why Food Is About More Than Eating. In this episode, we are going to talk about our relationship with food, because so many of us have become stuck in the roles of eaters and consumers, and that is impacting our health, wellbeing and the health of Earth’s biosphere.

Food is very personal and intimate, connected to the broader world and the systems we live within. We take our food and put it inside us; it becomes a part of us. Every day, our bodies are made and remade from our food, drink, and interactions with our environments.

This means that we are putting our trust, our very lives, in our food systems.

Food systems are simply all the processes and infrastructure that work to feed us. These can be as simple as gardens, community gardens, urban and rural farms, markets, cooperatives, neighbours trading and bartering food, and people who process and prepare food, such as butchers, bakers, and chefs. But more commonly, in regions like North America, they include industrial agriculture, grocery stores, fast food outlets, factory food processing, and a lot of packaging and waste disposal...