“We are on a trajectory of a 3,000% increase in kidney, liver, heart cancer, disease, attention deficit disorder, autism, childhood obesity. Not sustainable.”
Welcome Farmer Lee Jones:
We’re joined on the Starline by a farmer, author and speaker. For more than four decades, he has committed to ensure his family’s 300 acre farm is innovative and pioneering using regenerative farming techniques. His latest project is “The Chef’s Garden” on FYI. We welcome Farmer Lee Jones.
Lee, let’s go Beyond the Mic. How did the concept of “The Chef’s Garden” on FYI, how did it begin and what did you want to achieve with it?
How have chefs you’ve worked with all these years helped recognize the importance of family farms?
Why was it important for the Culinary Vegetable Institute to grow to where it is today?
The Rockin’ 8:
It’s time for the Rockin’ 8, 8 random questions, answer with the first thing that comes to your mind. There is no Pressure.
1. I know you’ll never tell your favorite veggie but what’s the most underrated vegetable?
2. You’ve said, “Seasonal eating is a way of life that honors the natural rhythm of the land.” As it is cold in Ohio, where the garden is, what crop is growing well in your greenhouses today?
3. How many bowties do you own?
4. Which chef is the 1st one who believed in you and your family?
5. When eating corn are you up and down or side to side?
6. Best memory of your grandmother’s kitchen?
7. Which pest of the garden is your nemesis?
8. Favorite recipe from the 100 in your book “The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables”?
One Big Question:
How important is regenerative farming to the future of good healthy food?
The Wrap:
Lee enjoys microgreens from the greenhouses of his garden now and wants you to watch “The Chef’s Garden” on FYI. Farmer Lee Jones thanks for taking the time to talk with us today.
And that my friends is a Beyond the Mic Short Cut.
Check out “The Chef’s Garden” here.
Watch Farmer Lee Jones in the Chef’s Garden TV Show on FYI, here.
Listen to other Beyond the Mic conversations with authors here.
