The future of food is a topic that is about participation.
The future of food is not about a system where one of us profits at the cost of others.
It's about a farm that is different because we really respect our animals, we respect
our produce and we're trying to create the best possible food that we can using regenerative
farming technology and farming techniques.
Listen folks, today is all about information and it's a lot to take in.
For us, we really believe that our farming system is standing on the edge of progress.
We have set about a holistic change but also a paradigm shift in our thinking about our
food system and where we're going and how we want to produce food.
We've reached the top of the fossil fuel mountain so we're never going to get to a
point where energy is going to decline in its cost relative to the prices that we get.
So in a few years time, oil will stabilise at prices which will make some of the agricultural
production systems that we currently use completely unfeasible.
So you either get on board with that and start to strategically act now or you suffer.
It's as simple as that.
At this time, at this point in history, we can indeed leverage our love and our appreciation
and our knowledge in a new direction, creating a new orthodoxy so that the future of food
will be one that actually embraces this ecological nest we live in and leaves it a legacy more
healing, more nurtured and more functional than what we inherit.
Stories that you learn today, it really is your duty and obligation to share this information
as the change makers that our food system needs.
This morning I got out of the car, took half an hour to just walk and essentially just
prayed for this property that as you all embark on this journey, that this land will reward
your love and your caress and it will yield a future of abundance in a time when many
people are afraid of scarcity and you'll touch lives that you can't even imagine.
So that's my classic quote.
