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Today\u2019s episode has been a long time coming for me. I\u2019ve followed Eric Toensmeier\u2019s work since I first started learning about permaculture and I found his first book \u201cParadise Lot\u201d about his work in transforming a tiny suburban dirt patch into a perennial food oasis at his home in Massachusetts.\xa0\n\n\n\nSince then Eric has written many other titles that have kept an eerie pace with my own work and focus over the years. \u201cPerennial Vegetables\u201d was great fodder for my learning in Guatemala with indigenous plant cultures and companion plants to coffee and avocado. The Carbon Farming Solution\u201d helped to turn my attention to the potential of regenerative agriculture at scale, and his contributions to \u201cProject Drawdown\u201d helped me to put agriculture in perspective with the rest of the essential steps to addressing the climate crisis around the world.\xa0\n\n\n\nIn this session, because of its relevance to the work I\u2019m doing with Climate Farmers, I decided to focus on the conclusion of \u201cThe Carbon Farming Solution\u201d Part 5, which outlines the implementation of regenerative, perennially based, agriculture. We\u2019ll explore Eric\u2019s three point plan for scaling up carbon farming, his ideas for ways to support farmers and organizations in the transition, effective financing, removing policy barriers, as well as strategic next steps. We also cover some of his work with Project Drawdown in looking at the global picture and where regenerative agriculture stacks up in the priority list they\u2019ve created to reverse the effects of climate change.\xa0\n\n\n\nThere\u2019s so much more I could say in an introduction to Eric and his work, but instead I\u2019ll put all the links to learn more about him and the projects he\u2019s involved with in the show notes for this episode and I\u2019ll jump right into the first question to start this discussion off.\n\n\n\nGet the resource packet for this episode!\n\n\n\nJoin the discord discussion channel to answer the weekly questions and learn new skills with the whole community\n\n\n\nLinks:\n\n\n\nhttp://www.perennialsolutions.org/\n\n\n\nhttp://carbonfarmingsolution.com/\n\n\n\nhttps://www.drawdown.org/