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008: What is Regenerative Agriculture? with Anthony Corsaro from Regeneration Nation
- 2022/05/04
- 再生時間： 35 分
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Anthony is the Founder of Regeneration Nation - a clothing company and community hub for the heroes and advocates of regenerative agriculture. He is also the Managing Director at Outlaw Ventures - a family office investing in growth-stage food and agriculture businesses with the capacity to provide substantial financial returns while having a positive impact on human and environmental health. In addition to his work at Regeneration Nation and Outlaw Ventures, Anthony is also the Director of Business Development at Regenerative Food Systems Investment (RFSI) - a venue for the funders and change-makers of regenerative agriculture to connect, build, and scale regenerative food systems. Anthony was a third-generation family contributor and executive at Indianapolis Fruit Company before joining RFSI. Anthony oversaw a sales & marketing team that provided fresh produce products and services to over 2,500 retail customers across 20 states. Anthony’s professional background in food distribution and personal health journey led him to his commitment of building regenerative food systems. Anthony’s mission is to help heal our people and planet through ventures that inspire the production and consumption of healthy, nutrient-dense foods. Anthony holds a B.S. in Business from the Kelley School at Indiana University, where he was a varsity athlete as a tight end on the football team. In this episode we’ll discuss what regenerative agriculture is, how the average person can support regenerative crop production, Anthony’s struggles with an autoimmune disease, and why he eventually decided to launch a clothing company backing the regenerative agricultural movement. Links: Regeneration Nation Website: https://regenerationnation.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/regeneration___nation/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonycorsaro/ Ep #8 What is Regenerative Agriculture? with Anthony Corsaro. Amy: [00:00:00] Okay. Hey everyone. Welcome back today. I'm so excited because we have Anthony from regeneration nation on the podcast. Hi Anthony, how are you? Good. Good. Thanks so much for being on the podcast. So we're going to jump right into it. So first of all, I really want to know personally, what is your background? And then how did you get into agriculture? Anthony: Yeah. Great question. Um, so my background is I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana in a family, fresh produce distribution business. So think people that deliver what's in the produce department to grocery stores, uh, you know, my dad was a part of that business. My grandpa was a part of that business and I told myself I was never going to be in produce. Um, and then I ended up eating those words as a young adult and kind of got back into the family biz. And it was really fun and great work experience. Since I was 14, I've had an auto-immune disease called and really it's caused me to take a look [00:01:00] at a lot of things in my life and in. Food as medicine was the foundational piece to healing myself or, you know, kind of living with that disease. And so while I was working back in Indianapolis group, the family business, uh, I actually decided to step away from that business and take a health sabbatical and really deal with the auto immune disease pretty severely for the first time. And during that kind of five months off, uh, food is, medicine was a huge piece and stress and mold was also a huge piece.. And I actually got asymptomatic from the disease for the first time. And as I was coming off that five month hiatus, I was asking myself what do I want to do with my life? And the regen- ag bug, just bit me, super hard. And I just couldn't stop learning about it. I was super interested in it and I was having. Conversations like this. I was watching movies. I was reading articles. I was reading scientific journals. I mean, I just couldn't get enough. And you know, a year or two in now, um, I'm just the exact same way every day. I just love learning about it so much. I love working in this space [00:02:00] and it's manifested itself into a lot of really cool opportunities for me to, uh, to help the movement. Amy: That's so awesome. I love how you took a personal story and really went deep in and started researching. So that's super cool. And I definitely want to ask you about your autoimmune disease, but I know we'll get into that a little bit later. I've actually never heard of that auto immune disease before, so you will definitely need to educate me on that for, for sure. So why regenerative agriculture? Um, and then I feel like I've talked about this on my podcast before, but maybe just like a pure definition of regenerative ag and then like why you got into it. Anthony: So regenerative agriculture is positive quicksand. And what I mean by that is like, once you get your feet in, like, it just sucks you in and you, and you can't go anywhere. And I say that because the more you learn about regenerative agriculture, the ...