Amar La Tierra

The Balearics are once again heading towards the time of year when endless Wildfires break out. 2023 will forever be etched in firefighters memories as the year Ibiza and Formentera were attacked by raging forest blazes.  By December last year, 27 forest fires had engulfed our Paradise Islands and it makes you begin to wonder just how much work is being done to prevent them. Journalist and sustainability consultant Clara Cano talks to us about the solutions in todays episode as we celebrate returning for Series 02 after her TEDx Talk.  We meet Can Purtell creatorJess Dunlop on the farm to hear how she has been growing wheat for bread making and travels to a mill in Formentera to share with bakers on Ibiza. Plus we hear from Local Futures director Helena Norborg Hodge on the new film, Closer to Home.  This new 35-minute film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change. It Features strong voices from the worldwide localization movement, such as Vandana Shiva, Andrew Simms, Manish Jain, Iain McGilchrist, and more. Thank you for listening and supporting Series 02 of Amar La Tierra. We are so happy to be back...  

What does it take to give up your financial safety net and hand it all over to live your dream and become a farmer? DJ and musician Andy Cato, one half of Groove Armada joins us this month to tell us how he sold his publication rights to buy land in France and learn how to grow grains. It was a very dark, long, laborious and winding road to arrive at his current concept Wildfarmed, which exists to create a viable alternative to the current, industrial food system. The flour he now creates through regenerative processes in the UK has the power to transform bread, pasta, pizza into food that is good for the planet.  We hear from Peter Lehner of Ibiza Wine makers, Blacknose Wines on the hardshiops he has endured on his land this year close to San Juan where he farms Biodynamically and how his delicious Podenco Loco was born as a result - there is plenty ready for Christmas! Email [email protected] to order yours for the festivities.  And we finish the episode with a conversation with SOS Cochichumbas art collective and activists Liz Kueneke and Eliana Perinat about the way in which we can save our Cactus plants on the island which are being destroyed by a massive infestation by an island wide bug.

As summer draws offficially to a close we wanted to assess what state the under water ecosystems remain in after increased traffic and check in to see how the Balearic water quality its faring.  We start todays Episode in Palma in Mallorca in the offices of the Marilles Foundation to talk about the Balearic Blue Deal which aims to take 1% of public funding and reinvest it in our marine ecosystems.  Aniol Esteban is the director of the foundation and a marine biologist and says after last years five marine heat waves in the Balearic Islands we need to put back into our seas to save them and protect 30% of them by 2030.  Our second guest is Manu San Felix, A National Geographic explorer, marine biologist and life long Posidonia activist from Formentera. He explains that protection of our seagrass is way down the line ahead of Novembers Foro Marino conference and that first we need to resource it, by planting more but also cultivating its balanced existence within the marine environment.  We finish with a trip to SAY Ibiza Carbon Yachts to talk about the lightness of the boat design which has less impact on the water with director James Blanchfield.  The company are based in Santa Eulalia Marina and they say they would like to see an APP created to book anchorage for their guests, so that protecting the Posidonia becomes easier and any accidental dropping of anchor can be avoided.

In the second part of our LIVE Talks mini series, Farmers Footprint Zach Bush MD continues the lecture he gave at Tierra Iris Farm last month.  Zach is a physician specialising in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognised educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems.  In part two of his talk Zach explores the gut health of children in relation to medicine, ADHD, Soil and our nervous system and how Farmers Foorprint came to be after they made a film about soil.  Find more into on Zach and Farmers Footprint Here.