Don't you sing out of your frustration? Just say your word. I'm staring at those who hurt. Good morning, guys. Welcome to today's What I Eat in a Day. You saw that I've already had a pretty busy morning. I actually went to the gym as you saw, drove there this time, because I am now doing two days of structured cardio, which basically means that I have to go on an elliptical, go in a pool, a bike, a treadmill, rather than just walking seven days a week. I now have to do with 30 minutes of structured cardio, elevating my heart rate above 125. So today I got on the elliptical, did the elliptical, and then lifted my weights. I was at the gym for well over an hour, and I will say, I will say I would rather walk outside than on an elliptical. That half of an hour felt much, much longer than my 40 minute one hour walks that I take outside, but I'm following my fitness coach's regimen, which is two days a week of structured cardio, and then the other four or five days a week I can walk outside, which you know is my favorite. I'm still lifting weights and doing strength training three days a week, and as I've gotten more into it, I'm liking it a little bit more. I much prefer my walks outside, but I know that strength training is so incredibly important, so I've come to terms with it, and I'm doing it three days a week. And we're going to make breakfast. I have a new breakfast that I have been obsessed with. My friend Amy actually gave me the recipe for it, and I modified it a little bit to make it better into my points, my calories, my macros, and I'm really excited to share it with you guys. I'm also going to show you the fiber powder that you saw me add to my coffee this morning. I've been using it now for a couple weeks, and I'm absolutely loving it, so I'll share that with you guys. So editing Jen here, I totally forgot to share with you guys the fiber supplement that I put into my coffee every morning. I've actually been using it now for a few weeks, and I've been loving it, so I wanted to test it out before I shared it with you guys, and then I totally forgot to show it to you. So this is the fiber supplement that I've been using. This is from the brand Just Better. It is a prebiotic supplement. It says fiber up and slim down. So one tablespoon has 10 calories, zero fat, zero pretty much of everything, with the exception of six carbohydrates and five grams of fiber. So each tablespoon has five grams of fiber. You can have one to two tablespoons per day. I put one tablespoon in my coffee and it gives me five grams of fiber. You should be shooting for about 25 grams of fiber per day as a woman and about 30 grams of fiber per day as a man. So it says fiber up and slim down, fill full faster, stay full longer, helps boost your fiber reduce cholesterol. So it is soluble fiber decreases your bad cholesterol. The LDL, which is 100% true, and all that is in here is non-GMO soluble corn fiber. That is it. And then down at the bottom here it says non-GMO vegan gluten and wheat-free, egg-free, soy-free, nothing artificial, and food map friendly. It's fantastic. A little bit of a warning, a little TMI warning here. So if TMI things bother you, skip past this part. But one of the great benefits of adding this Just Fiber supplement is you're much more regular. And sometimes when we're in a calorie deficit, I actually hear this a lot with Weight Watchers members. Going number two is kind of hard and you can get backed up and constipated. And this will definitely keep everything very regular. Since I've been using this, I am 100% regular and I just feel better overall. I do, it definitely helps keep me full a little bit longer from my coffee. And I love that there's five grams of fiber per tablespoon. It dissolves perfectly in coffee. No chunkiness, nothing. That's what I was finding with the Garden of Life biotic. It would get clumpy in my coffee. It didn't dissolve very well. And then I heard about this brand and it dissolves perfectly, also in cold. So you could throw this into a smoothie or a protein shake, add a scoop to a packaged protein shake and shake it up. It's just a really good way to get in fiber. So I'll go ahead and link just better down below. I have a couple of new home things coming my way today that I'll share with you. And then we're actually going to go out and about a little bit. I just joined Sam's Club mainly because I wanna be able to buy protein shakes. And my Costco here really doesn't have anything that premier. And I heard that Sam's Club has Fairlife as well as maybe some other options. And we never had a Sam's Club in Washington. So I joined. So we're gonna go there today and I'm really excited because Sam's Club is two miles from Trader Joe's. So we're gonna go to Trader Joe's too today. So we have lots and lots to do. I have really good recipes to share with you. I'm excited for tonight's dinner recipe. So lots and lots of good stuff in store today. So if you're excited, give this video a thumbs up. Make sure you're subscribed and your bell is turned on because we do what I eat in a day every Wednesday and I upload five videos per week. I'll link nutrition coaching down in the description box. I'm getting a lot of questions about macros and calories. Highly recommend having yours done. Personalize to you to help you reach your goals. That's what I did for myself and that's how I've been able to lose over 110 pounds. That's been a big contributing factor. And I do offer one-on-one coaching as well if you need some accountability or you wanna talk with me directly, I have that as well. Links and discounts to everything I share with you today and my Facebook group come join us there is also down in that description box.  So I'm going to make some breakfast and I wanted to share with you guys the oatmeal recipe that my friend Amy gave me. It has been my go-to the last few days. It's a great healthy oatmeal that's packed with protein and you know how close protein is to my heart. I do have a protein goal every single day and the fact that I worked out this morning, this is going to be a great boost of healthy carbohydrates, slow digesting carbs. That'll keep me nice and full. We're going to add some superfoods to our oatmeal and a big pack of protein. I'm gonna show you guys exactly how I put together my oatmeal. So first you're going to need oats. I'm gonna use rolled oats. Sometimes I use quick cook steel cut oats, really whatever oats you have on hand. You want one quarter cup and then we're going to add three quarters of a cup of water. We want our oats a little runny even after they're cooked because we're adding so much stuff to them which will thicken them up. And then I pop my oats in the microwave for one to two minutes or until they're cooked through. So you can see that my oats are still really runny but the oatmeal itself is actually cooked through. So now I'm going to add a scoop of whatever protein powder you have on hand. I actually shared this on my Instagram. I found this protein powder at the 99 cent store. So not the Dollar Tree but the 99 cent store. The ingredients in this are super, super clean. It is two scoops for 120 calories and 20 grams of protein which is absolutely incredible. I did have this protein powder in my oats yesterday. It's really good. I mean, really, really good. I will link it down below. I did do a little research went on their website and they do sell it directly on their website. You guys, it's so incredibly delicious. I highly recommend. So I'm adding one scoop to my oats and I'm going to mix that in. The brand is integrated supplements. I've actually never heard of the brand but it's nice clean ingredients. They also had vanilla protein powder. I may actually go back and grab that as well. At the 99 cent store, this does expire in August. So if you don't think you could use it up by the end of August, you can always order it on their website or if you don't have the 99 cent store but I highly recommend. Then we're going to add one teaspoon of chia seeds, one teaspoon of flax meal, not flax seed but flax meal. So it's already kind of ground up. And then lastly, we're adding two teaspoons of our favorite nut butter. You guys already know I'm obsessed with American dream nut butter. I really like this Yabba Dabba delicious. This is one of their peanut butters. They sell, they have almond butter and cashew butter as well. But for some reason, this one is just really, really good in this particular oatmeal. So we're going to add two teaspoons of nut butter and then stir that all together. And I'm telling you, this is literally the best oatmeal that I've ever had. I think it's the mix of the protein powder and then that nut butter that's added. And then we have some superfoods like flax seed and chia seed. It is so good and so incredibly filling. So I will go ahead and put points and calories on the screen for my version of the oatmeal that of course is going to change based on your zero point foods and what you add to the oatmeal. But highly recommend. I'll also go ahead and pop up how much protein is in this here on the screen for you. So you get an idea that oatmeal can not only be a great carbohydrate but a great source of protein. I'm telling you, so good. The best oatmeal combination ever. I will make sure that American dream nut butter is linked down below with 10% off for you. I actually really like their nut butter and they have less points and calories than traditional nut butter. And you get all these fun mix-ins like cookies and candies and crunchy bits. It's so incredibly good. I actually just ordered three more jars. So I have quite the addiction to American dream nut butter and I love it in this oatmeal. So I can warrant the addiction a little bit better but highly recommend this oatmeal and of course the American dream nut butter. So as promised, I wanted to share with you guys a couple of new goodies that we got for our new house. And when I say I'm obsessed, I'm obsessed with these. I love everything about them. The aesthetics, the functionality, I love them. What I picked up is from the brand Good Pick and they are basically a home product company. They have products for the bedroom, the living room, the nursery, the laundry room and the kitchen. They have fantastic ratings and really affordable prices. I had to pick up a couple of different items from their bedroom line. They have these beautiful woven rope type of baskets. You see these at stores like TJ Maxx and you can find them at even high end stores like Bed Bath & Beyond and Nordstrom and Macy's and Good Pick's are much better quality and far more affordable. And these are all the rage right now. These little baskets that you can use for storage, the big baskets that you can put blankets in or your baby's toys or baby's clothes. And most importantly or most exciting for me are the baskets that are used as hampers. The laundry basket that I picked up, the gray and white one that I shared in my home tour, my husband doesn't love it. So I was really excited when I saw that these are a little bit more his style. They're a little more aesthetically pleasing and the laundry hamper that I picked up is absolutely gorgeous, super high quality and great for functionality. So I have the large jute laundry basket, woven clothes hamper. You can pick a lot of these products up off of the Good Pick website. They even have them on Amazon as well. Of course, I'll link everything down below for you. The material is 100% natural cotton and jute rope. It has some really pretty earth toned colors. We have camel, brown, black, jute, white, and then a mixture of different browns. It's 25.6 inches high and 19.3 inches around and it only weighs about four and a half pounds. So even full of clothes, it's really easy to tote around, especially if you have to go up and down stairs or walk relatively far to your washer and dryer. It's a large capacity that's perfect for not only laundry, but you can store clothes in there, towels, toys, blankets, bedding, and more. It's perfect for your laundry room, your bedroom, playroom, living room, nursery room, bathroom, family room, storage, and for decoration. So it's beautiful to look at if you have to leave it out or if it's in a space that when people come over they see it. Ours is in our master closet, so nobody really sees it, but it just looks really nice in there and just goes with the whole aesthetic of our house. The other product that I decided to pick up is for my spare bedroom. So right now we just have all of our spare blankets and suitcases and bags that we pack in, my Buff Bunny backpack, just thrown on the floor in the closet. So I grabbed the extra, extra, extra large cotton rope storage basket. This was such a great price. I mean, far more affordable than any store I've ever seen it at for how large as it is. I've seen the really small baskets that maybe hold a blanket or a couple of pieces of clothing for the same price as this extra large one. This particular one is a 100% natural cotton rope. It is brown and white in color. The dimensions are 21.7 inches by 21.7 inches by 13.8 inches and it weighs just about 3.55 pounds. It's large enough to store pillows, clothes, blankets, comforters, cushions, kids' toys, bedding and more and it provides you with lots of extra storage space that looks really nice wherever you end up putting it. It's perfect for the laundry room, bedroom, play room, living room, nursery room, bathroom, family room and of course for storage and decoration. You can reshape it the same way as we did with the laundry basket. It does come folded and you can hand wash this or machine wash or machine wash it just again, make sure you put it in a laundry bag before throwing it into the washer. The big basket is less than $28 which was such an affordable price. I'm even considering picking up a couple other baskets. And of course they don't just sell baskets. That is the big bulk of the products that they sell. There's so many options. They even have the small ones for storage like in a closet or a pantry or in a linen closet. They also sell a bamboo food storage bag organizer. This is really cool. I actually have one of these and you can put all your different Ziploc bags in there and it fits nicely in a kitchen drawer and just makes it really easy to grab out your Ziploc bags. And then they also have a large bread box that is wood that can sit on the counter in your kitchen and I love, love, love this. And I actually almost picked this up too. I'm a sucker for a bread box. When I was showing houses a lot in Washington and they had built-in bread boxes, it just was nostalgic and just made me really happy. And I always wanted a bread box. And since we don't have one, this is a product I'll probably pick up down the road as well, super affordable, really nice quality. And those are just a couple of the other items that you can find on the Good Pick website. I will make sure that I link the Good Pick website down below for you as well as the laundry hamper and the large basket that I picked up if you wanted to shop directly what I bought. But I encourage you to look around the website because there are some really beautiful products. And like I said, I can't believe how amazingly affordable these products are. So I'm gonna pack up some water before I head out. I shared these with you guys in my netrition haul, these little 4C water enhancers. There's wild berry pomegranate, cranberry pomegranate, fruit punch and lemonade. These are so good. I actually buy these off netrition, which is the same website that I get my fiber gourmet pasta. So I've been loving these. You can see that I've went through quite a few of them. So I am going to add one to my Lululemon water bottle. I've also been sharing this a lot because hands down, this is the best water bottle. I'll link it down below for you. I'll link netrition for you. So today let's do wild berry pomegranate. On my way to Sam's club, it says it's 20 miles away, 29 minutes, which I'm assuming I'll get there a little bit faster than that. The good thing about where we live in relation to Tucson is it's all interstate. So it usually goes even a little bit faster than the nav says that it's gonna go. In addition to bringing my water bottle, I grabbed one of my Knicks sticks. These are delicious, delicious, delicious. I buy these off of Amazon. I find that they truly have the least expensive price for them. You actually get both sticks in the pack for 75 calories, 10 grams of protein. What I really love about these is all the protein for the calories and the points and they are very easy to take with you.  And it's just a really good way to get in some protein. So I brought one of these two and I have a sneaking suspicion. We may grab coffee at Duncan while we're in Tucson as well. We may be in the line at Duncan. I realized there was one really close to Sam's club, literally like a mile away. So I decided to pick up some more coffee. I'm feeling like I need a little bit of a pick me up post workout. I have coffee, I'm so happy. So I did a medium iced original Americano with three shots of sugar-free toasted almond, two stevia, two cream, add a shot of espresso. So good. And actually today we got an extra 100 points with a pickup order. So I think I have a free Duncan coffee waiting for me. This is really, really good. All right, first up is protein bars and protein shakes. They have way more options than Costco. I did see some Fairlife ones, but look at all the Atkins bars too. I mean, they have so many protein shake and protein bar options. So they have the Fit Crunch bars and they have built bars, which actually are cheaper on the website with my discount, which I'll put down in the description box for you. But I did spot these. So they have the Quest peanut butter cups and these are so good, you guys. I mean, so good like Reese's peanut butter cups. And they have 11 grams of protein and less than one gram of sugar. It's 2248 for the box. It looks like they just have the Core Power Elite. 42 grams of protein and 230 calories. I think I'm gonna pick up a pack just to try it. I've never actually tried the Elite. It's like Kinder season heaven here. Oh my gosh, they literally have everything, you guys. They have the Einstein brothers, everything but the bagel for $4 and so many seasonings. I feel like a lot more than Costco and some different seasonings than Costco. I have never seen this before. Twix shakers and it's 15 calories. You could put this on yogurt. I mean, you could really add this to anything. I'm not going to get it, but I thought that it was pretty interesting. These are really, really great snacks.  They have crackers and everything. You can take them with you on the go. I wanted to show you guys, they have Zevia here. Look at all the different flavors. It's a 30 pack and it's only $17, which is a great deal. I also wanted to show you guys this almond milk. It's a two pack for $5 and 38 cents. 30 calories, unsweetened vanilla. Super good deal. How good does this look? I am not hitting it, but look at that. One more thing I want to point out is turkey sticks. 13.98 and these are like 70 calories, I think. These are really, really low in points and high in protein. Sam's Club was quite the success. I'll actually be sharing what I picked up at Sam's Club and what I'm going to be picking up at Trader Joe's. I can't tell you how excited I am to go to Trader Joe's, but I'm at Sam's Club getting gas because it's only 4.59 a gallon here, which is 30 to 40 cents less than anywhere else. So I might as well get some gas while I'm here. I'm really excited to be in Trader Joe's for the first time since moving to Arizona. Seriously, cannot wait to see all the new stuff that they have. I had a serving of these Mexican street corn tortilla chips. I got these at Sam's Club. OMG, are these incredibly delicious. I literally had to put the bag in the back seat because I was going a little crazy and eating a little more than a serving, but I have this and my meat stick and then when we get home, we'll have some lunch. It says limited time. So if you have a Sam's Club, grab them before they're gone because they're incredible. So for lunch today, I'm home. I actually just got home, put away. All the groceries filmed them for Saturday. So stay tuned for what I got at Sam's Club in Trader Joe's. This is my meal prep that I made for the week. I make one the night before and that way everything's still nice and fresh in the wrap. But these are my turkey pinwheels, million out of 10. They are so good. And then I just pair them with some fresh strawberries. It truly is the perfect lunch. Love, love, love.  So I'm gonna finish up that 32 ounce jug of water with lunch. So I decided to try out the Misfits Market. So this is kind of like imperfect foods, but the big difference with this box is it's actually all organic everything, which I thought was really nice. And I will say that I noticed that the prices were very similar to imperfect foods, but again, everything's organic. So I ordered a box. I found a really good discount online. I'll link all the information for you, but they basically do the same thing. They help eliminate food waste by giving us a really good deal on maybe produce that isn't perfect looking, but still just as good a quality as the store. So I'm really excited to dig in to my first box. So here's what the box looks like. There is like this plastic coated insulation and it surrounds the entire box. There is an ice pack. It is cold, but not frozen. Oh, I guess it's partially frozen, but it is 104 here. So that kind of makes sense. And then there are all of your goodies nicely packed in. I feel like this is packed really well where things don't shift around a lot. So the first thing I grabbed are these all-natural pet snacks. These are sweet potato chips. Look at that. It's actually just a dried sweet potato. My dogs are going to love those and they were a really good price. This is actually really nice. So I bought a pack of blueberries and look how it's packaged. That way it doesn't open up in transit. I was having that issue with imperfect foods. They've remedied it though they revanned it closed, but this is actually really nice. And here are the blueberries and remember all the produce is organic. And then the strawberries nicely packaged as well. I actually really, really like that. That way they don't come smushed or open. So I grabbed a pack of organic strawberries. I've also been loving berries lately, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. So I grabbed a couple more packs. This was something that I thought looked pretty interesting. So this is from the brand Freak Flag Organics. It's broccoli and cheese mac and freak, which is basically like mac and cheese, but it has broccoli in it already. So I thought that that would be a really quick, easy lunch. You could throw some protein in there. So I'm really excited to try it. If it's good, I'll order more next time. And then I've been loving putting freshman in my water with cucumbers or lemons. Really good price for organic herbs. So this is another really interesting thing. This is from the brand GoNanas. This is their original instant banana bread. This bread is bananas requires one banana and is ready in three minutes. So it's 170 calories. And literally you just mix the banana in with this packet and you have banana bread. So I was excited to try that. I thought we, maybe Tori and I could share it and see if it's any good. And then I picked up some produce. Two yellow zucchini. We are having my in-laws over for a barbecue on Saturday. So I thought we could grill this with regular zucchini. I guess this is squash, yellow squash on our black zone grill. And then I grabbed two Japanese sweet potatoes. I don't know if these are the ones that are purple inside, but I've heard really good things about the Japanese sweet potatoes. But not least, I did pick up an organic English cucumber. I love cucumbers. And again, organic, you can't beat it for the price. So I did place a little bit smaller order. I just wanted to test the service out. And I have to say, I'm pretty impressed and the prices were really, really good. So I'll link Misfits Market down below for you with any discount that I can find.  We'll see if they like them. They're kind of pig, so I'm sure that they will. Oh, Diesel. Oh, he has to snip it first.  He's the pickiest one, by far. Palmer loves food, just like Lola. Easy buddy. Oh, buddy, look at that. And she loves food, so I know she'll eat it. Good girl, Lola.    So I'm going to have an afternoon snack and it's my normal afternoon snack that I've been having pretty much every single day and that is one of the Sprouts Organic Brown Rice Cakes. I like these because they're only 25 calories. They're organic, they have really nice clean ingredients and they're really just the perfect size. And I ordered the special flavor of the month or season from American Dream Nut Butter. This is an almond butter base and it is squeeze of the day. So it's like a lemon almond butter and I know that that might sound weird but I have lots of friends that have purchased this and they love it. It has seven and a half grams of protein per serving, 5.6 carbs and 11.8 grams of fat. It's 166 calories for two tablespoons and I'm really excited to try this out. You guys know I love lemon anything. It smells super lemony when I open it up and you can see all the mix-ins. It looks like little lemon cookies and like pie crust in there. This looks so good. So I want 14 grams total, which is one tablespoon. I feel like that's plenty to spread over the rice cake. I like this one because it is a little bit smaller so you don't have to use as much nut butter to spread over it. And I'm having a string cheese for some added protein. So that is my snack let's taste test for the first time the nut butter. Smells so lemony, so good. It's lemony, super lemony, which isn't weird with the almond butter. I don't know how they did it, but it's actually really good. And these little crunchy bits or lemon pieces and cookies definitely grab the squeeze the day. As I mentioned, when I made my breakfast I'll link American Dream Nut Butter down below with 10% off. What was that? What was that again? For dinner tonight, I am making homemade black bean burritos. These are supposed to be the best black bean burritos. I'm pretty excited about this. So let me show you what's in the recipe. First you're going to need some salt. Now I have my salt and pepper shakers out because I'm really excited to share my new salt and pepper shakers with you. These are literally the coolest things ever. So I pulled out the pepper too but we need some salt for the recipe. You'll need two to three cans of black beans, fresh cilantro, a one point tortilla of your choice. I'm just using the La Tortilla Factory, low carb tortillas, a red bell pepper, a red onion and some one third less fat cream cheese. So the first thing I need to do is chop up the cilantro, chop up some red onion and chop up some red bell pepper. So the first thing we're going to do is add in the red bell pepper and our onion to our skillet and we're going to cook it for about five minutes until they start to soften. While the veggies are cooking, I have five of my low carb tortillas. I'm just going to wrap them in some foil, throw them into a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes or so. That's just going to allow them to warm through. Our veggies are looking really good. We're going to go ahead and add in the black beans. So I have two cans of black beans drained and rinsed. We're going to add those to the bell pepper and onion and allow it to cook for about another five minutes. While the beans are warming through, we are going to add some salt. Look at these salt and pepper shakers. So they're really, really nice looking. I did buy some really good quality Himalayan pink salt off of Amazon as well, but check these out. All you do is flip it over and it automatically grinds your salt and the same thing with the pepper. Look at that. Look at the blue. That is just so cool and it automatically grinds it. Seriously makes my heart happy and it's just so, they're so easy to use. Again, I picked these up off of Amazon. They were super affordable. I'll actually link the salt and pepper shakers and the salt and pepper. I'm obsessed with these. Now I'm going to add in six ounces of the one third less fat cream cheese. We want to stir that in and allow it to melt and make everything nice and creamy. I did go ahead and reduce my heat a little bit as well now that the vegetables are cooked through and the black beans are warmed. As the cream cheese is melting, I'm going to add in some cilantro as well and stir that in. Make sure that while everything's melting and finishing cooking, that you're stirring constantly. Super easy to assemble these burritos. Take your warmed tortilla. We're going to put one fifth of the black bean mixture in the middle. I have a feeling, I have to say, that I bet you this makes more than five servings only because our tortillas aren't the big like eight inch tortillas. So we're going to shoot for five but let's see if we have any of the bean mixture left over which isn't a big deal. We can just eat it by itself or we could make some additional burritos as well. So there are five burritos. You can see that there's a little bit of the bean mixture left. I mean, not enough for another burrito. So what I'll do is probably just put a dollop on top of each burrito and then we'll garnish it with a little extra cilantro. I have some leftover frozen broccoli in the fridge that we're going to have as our side dish. These actually look really good, nice and creamy and heads up. This is a vegetarian recipe which is really exciting. So here's my dinner. This actually looks so good. I will say that I tasted the bean mixture and it is so delicious. It has so much flavor and that cream cheese just makes it kind of like a refried bean consistency but better, it's just really, really good. I can't wait to have this tonight. So I have one of the best black bean burritos. It is five points, not bad at all. Now your points may vary based on beans being a zero point food for you but just click the link on my website and it'll calculate it into your points and then of course some broccoli for zero points. So this is tonight's dinner. I have a new bar that I wanna share with you guys. I actually heard about these at the convention that I went to in Florida and I reached out to the company and asked if they could give me a discount code for you guys and send me some bars to share because they're really good and there's a fun little air fryer hack with these bars that I'm going to share with you. So I don't know if you've heard of these before but these were new to me. These are the dive bars. They are a protein bar and they have a little bit different texture. They kind of remind me of the quest bars a little bit. So there's an air fryer trick that you can do that actually makes these into cookies similar to what you do with the quest bar. So they sent me a bunch of flavors. This particular one has 16 grams of protein and seven grams of fiber. It does have 90 milligrams of caffeine. Actually all of the dive bars have caffeine in them so they're a really good midday pre-workout, post-workout, or in the mid-afternoon slump because they do have that little bit of caffeine but this is dump truck brownie. And then I have divorce cake, tutti frutti cereal. Do it all for the baroque. I think this is the one that I want to have tonight. Mississippi mud pie, salted caramel, trash can cookie. This one's really good. This is the one I tried at the convention and then Megan's sugar daddy cookie. This one also is really, really good. I will go ahead and put points, calories, all that good stuff here on the screen for you. I'll link dive bar down below with a discount code. I think for dessert tonight, yes, I'm having this for dessert. We're going to do it all for the brookie and I'm gonna show you that fun little air fryer hack but I love these, love, love, love them. They're such a great bar so don't forget they'll be linked down below with a discount. So the little hack with these, you're going to open up the dive bar. Here is what it looks like. Like I said, it does kind of have that quest bar look to it and then you're going to chop it up. I like to chop mine up into about four pieces like four equal pieces and then we're going to pop those four pieces into our air fryer. So just put them in your basket. We'll pop our air fryer, we'll set it to 400 and we'll keep our eye on these. It depends on your air fryer how long it's going to take but what's going to happen is these are going to puff up and basically create a cookie and I love the texture of them in the cookie form because it actually tastes like a cookie. Now this texture isn't bad at all. I eat them like this all the time but making them into cookies makes my heart so happy. So here are the cookies. So you can see that they puffed up and they basically cooked to a cookie consistency. So I'm going to put these on a plate. We'll break one open and I'll show you what they look like. Best way to eat these. So my suggestion would be also to make sure you spray the bottom of your air fryer so that they don't stick but they actually even have that cookie consistency in the middle of it. I mean, it literally looks and tastes like little chocolate chip or birthday cake or whatever dye bar flavor you use. Cookies, super, super good and you're getting in lots and lots of protein. So again, everything will be linked down below for you. I did cook these on 400 for maybe five minutes. Just keep an eye on it because again, it does depend on your air fryer. So I just got out of the shower and just finished up my dessert. You can see my water bottle back there. I've got about that much left before I finished my water for the day and I wanted to pop on really quick and thank you for watching today's What I Eat in a Day. I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today, seeing all the good food, the new recipes and don't forget those bean burritos which by the way are really, really good are on my website. I'll make sure that's linked down below for you. I'll also link everything from GoodPick, Dye Bar, everything we talked about today will be linked down in the description box for you. So if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big, huge thumbs up. Make sure you're subscribed and your bell's turned on because I do a What I Eat in a Day every Wednesday and I upload five videos per week. Again, check out the description box for the links, nutrition coaching where I offer personalized macros and calories as well as one-on-one coaching and lastly, don't forget, follow me over on Instagram and join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one.


Okay, so we're standing on the severe fault right now this side over here is Basalt you see the dark black color over here again is the eocene pig member the clarion formation and it's the red Red rock so right now. I'm gonna show you exactly what was going on here What a normal fault means So let me figure this out Richard, how do you think I should do this this one's deposited in the lake Later the lava flows came out and they were deposited on top and across in various places and then after that The fault broke and this one has dropped down. So now that it's next to it rather than being on top of it Something like that. All right Just use that This rock right here is 40 million years old This is from the eocene clarion formation and it's a lake deposit. This is what we saw earlier and this right here is a piece of the basalt which is myosin which is 10 million years ago and what this would look like in a In cross-section something like This the clarion some more rocks and then the the basalt was deposited on top of it now on the fault When the fault occurred these rocks would drop down along it like that and now they're sitting right next to the clarion formation which They really didn't have any association before Right now. We're on this basalt here on the basalt side And if you can look in the distance there you can see how this this line of this this fault moves right right along into the distance So again the red rocks on that side and the basalt on that side The soil probably It will erode faster and it's probably more More minerals and nutrients in it. Yeah, then just take it then just take a pan from this


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Kia ora again. My name is Alina Siegfried and I'm the host of this series, Our Regenerative Future, which is a partnership between Pure Advantage and Edmontillary Fellowship discussing regenerative agriculture in New Zealand, the opportunity where it's at, what we can do to support the movement. So, wonderful to have you here tonight for our fourth episode in this series, where we'll be discussing the community and mental health elements of Regenerag, and we're honoured to have some amazing guests with us this evening. We've got Jono Fru, Sam Lang and Jules Mathews with us this evening, so coming from quorum scents and integrity soils. Again, a quick reminder, if you haven't wrote it in that poll, it'd be fantastic if you can just briefly answer those three questions. So, we've got a sense of who's in the room and how much familiarity you already have with this subject. To give you the background, this topic started rising up for me in the last few years as I've been, I used to work at the Edmontillary Fellowship and I started out by thinking we were going to write some stories about some of our EHF fellows who were part of that community and involved in regenerative agriculture. I ended up leaving shortly afterwards, but still had a lot of interest in this topic and knew that Pure Advantage had been looking at doing some work around soil carbon and from a regenerative agriculture lens. And with the two organisations having worked together before and a lot of crossovers in terms of our goals with leading innovation in New Zealand, Edmontillary Fellowship is a global network of systems thinkers and global leaders working on some of the greatest challenges of our time around food, climate change, technology, social equality and any number of other big hairy issues and with a few farmers in the network as well. So, we got chatting with a few people around the country, started adding a few others, the soil experts, some of the people that were much more clued up on the business case and what ended up was a 15-part content series called Our Regenerative Future, which you can access on Pure Advantage website, which is pureadvantage.org or the Edmontillary Fellowship blog, which is stories.ehf.org. So, that's where you can get the background. Looking at the poll, it looks like most people have either read some or all of the stories in that future already. So, that's wonderful to see that there's some familiarity with the people that we've got on our call, aside from Jules, who's a new addition. And it looks like most people are somewhat or very familiar with regenerative agriculture, which is fantastic. Got a little under half of the people here, farmers or growers themselves, 47% big block of other. It's wonderful that we're attracting people to these series that just have a general interest or a broad, diverse range of industries. So, I'm going to get cracking very soon with some questions, just a few logistics. You'll see at the bottom bar, we've got a Q&A box option. Please do send your questions through there. I'll be asking the panellists questions as they come through. You can use the chat box as well for some general talk around what's going on. And you can also upvote questions. So, if you see something that you really like, or that is similar to a question that you had, you can always upvote that rather than repeating the question. It also gives us a sense and a bit of a pulse as to what people are really interested in around this discussion of community and mental health. All right, I think we will get cracking into this. It's been a wonderful journey for me. My job is a storyteller. And so, I've just learned so much about this topic of regenerative agriculture in the last few months that we've been doing this. And I'm going to let the experts tell you what they know this evening. So, I think without further ado, we will ask our panellists to introduce themselves. We'd love to start with you, Jules. Over to you. Certainly. Thank you, Alina, very much for all you've been providing. It's been really wonderful listening and watching those other podcasts that you've done. To introduce myself, I think first and foremost, I think of myself as a farmer. Farming has been a big part of my life, both in New Zealand and abroad. And I spent probably just over 20 years farming in the States and in Canada. And I came to regenerative practices. It was a fairly natural progression for me and partly through, I think, my own curiosity about farming systems and partly through living in other places where you're exposed to different ideas and different thinking. And then part of that process was, for me, in the 90s, being chosen to be one of a group of people in Washington State that were trained in holistic management through the University and the Savory Institute. So, that was a big part of opening up my mind to different ways of thinking. And then more significantly, I think, was through a personal interaction. And it was on my return to New Zealand and I worked with this lovely chap called Quenton. And one day Quenton said to me, he said, oh, Jules, you're amazing. You're incredible. And I smiled sweetly and thanked him.   And he suggested I go off and do a course. So, off I went to do this course and that took my life on another turn which was eight or ten years of working with people in the realm of personal performance and ontological coaching. So, coaching people in their state of being for the sake of producing results in life and really getting to a state of fulfilment. So, that was an interesting journey. And from that, I came around sort of full circle and met Nicole and have since been back in the realm of farming and working as, and I also work as a coach with integrity soils. So, both as a facilitator and as a one-on-one coach with farmers as they make this journey into a transition. And I think the thing that stands out a lot for me is that for people making that mindset shift, which is what regenerative is a lot about, you can't do that without having a corresponding emotional shift. So, yeah, that's where I come from. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you, Jules. And Nicole who you mentioned is Nicole Masters who has also been a very much part of this series and will be featuring on our episode next week on lessons from around the world. Over to you, Jono. Good evening, everyone. I'm Jono Fru. I guess a little bit about my background. I started farming when I was 11 years old. I grew up in a family of cheap dipping contractors and chemical applicators. That's what my stepfather did and my grandfather did.  And I got used to putting clothes in the washing machine.  And it just didn't mean anything to me. It was just normal. And then I started farming when I was 11. Started dairy farming, working every weekend and through the school holidays.  Probably shouldn't mention the electrician part, but I get to do all these things. And it just took me out. I just really, really loved it. And so that started my progression in the dairy industry and later in the arable industry and later specialising in chemical application and agronomy. But it was really one moment that when I first started farming, I was earning $130 a fortnight as my first full-time job. And at the time, it was just the most fulfilling, amazing. I got to go fishing after work on the banks of the Waitiki River. To me, it was a dream. One day, I had a friend come to me whose father's farm I worked on was one of my best friends, Pym, and still is to this day one of my good friends. He came to me and said that everyone at the school that I'd left, that he was still at, was taking the miki out of me saying that John, I was never going to be a stinking dairy farmer and he's earning less than $1 an hour. And in that moment of, I guess, upset, I felt like I had to prove myself to the world. All of a sudden, I went from being really driven, really distracted and really disconnected. I became this guy that you could never sit down with and be with because I was too busy being busy. And I had kids through this and got married and my marriage didn't last all that long. I was with my ex-partner for 11 years and really just burnt out my relationship through trying to win this game called farming to prove, you know, subconsciously prove all these people wrong that I'd been upset with for a long time just because of a conversation I had as a 15-year-old boy. And it wasn't until I realised this and through a few other profound opportunities like going from managing a chemical application company here in Canterbury and being known as the town or the local sort of expert in the chemical space to being asked to manage a large organic mixed cropping sheep and beef farm which really challenged my thinking. And through that introduction and that opportunity and then through the grief moments of my wife and children moving away and through those discoveries I made not only about myself but also about the world around me and the ecological world and the biological world. I was just fascinated by what I was discovering and how it affected really every part of my life. When I was farming and trying to win that game I was so stressed. I didn't know it because I thought that that was the way that we had to be as industry professionals. I thought that as a farmer I had to just work all the time to the point where I'd come home at night and I just was not present with my family and I always felt like I'd never done enough. I didn't deserve to sit down. I didn't deserve to even sleep well at night like I used to smoke cannabis to sleep at night because my brain wouldn't stop. And then in discovering all this stuff about ecosystem function and diversity and self-expression through my journey of understanding I was just lit up by what I discovered to be. The term we now use is regenerative agriculture so I now have started a company, a network performance limited where I go out and coach people how to take these ecological principles and the vast forms of them and put them into a practical application that's relevant to the people and what they're dealing with and that's a huge variety and I'm really excited about being here. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that story with us, John. I'm sure we'll have an opportunity to dive into some more of that throughout the hour. I want to hand it over to Sam to introduce herself. Kia ora, Alina. Thanks for having us here and it's nice to be on a webinar with a couple of good friends. I've got quite a different story. I actually grew up in Lower Hut. My mum was a farm girl, married a city boy and so that was kind of my upbringing and split growing up in town there and spending a lot of time with my grandparents and cousins up in Hawkes Bay on hill country farms up there. And it was actually, I was thinking about the questions probably my high school geography teacher helped me realise that there's probably a few people like that that kind of where I started to really develop this interest in kind of with land and people and how they interacted and that was, I suppose I had a connection to Hill Country Hawkes Bay that I always really missed when I was away. Anyway, that evolved into some time at university and a little bit of time in government working in ways that I didn't really enjoy to be honest and I eventually sort of dropped that pathway and went shepherding with my uncle up in Hawkes Bay on the farm that my grandparents used to run and that was a kind of what you'd call a conventional lamb and bull-beef finishing farm there. Still is amazing place. I had an absolute blast for a year and a bit there. Just working with my uncle who's not too much older than me and I suppose there was, I can always have this being grounded at the farm level by itself wasn't quite enough so I ended up doing a little bit of rural leadership stuff and eventually got asked to do a Nuffield scholarship which is an amazing opportunity and I was very fortunate to have that and my question was really for Nuffield you've got to do a project or have a topic of sorts that you kind of travel around the world exploring and mine was how do we support communities to make systems shifts basically. I didn't see Hill Country farming as we knew it continuing on the same trajectory that it was from where I was and I was really curious about how we actually have a really healthy shift because all of these stories about how the 1980s crash and loss of subsidies and that kind of stuff and all the hardship at that time and that was sort of the most recent example I could find of a massive shift in farm systems and communities and yeah on that that was kind of where I was looking at searching for communities that had made or farmers that had made shifts towards a more sustainable farm system of some sort and I didn't have any kind of prescription of what that was it was just you're kind of looking for a sort of an essence or a flavour of what that was and you get a bit of an instinct for it and that was a huge nine months of just intense learning with over a hundred farmers in 19 countries I think was the tally there and I just picked up some really consistent themes and one of them the one that possibly struck home the strongest was the importance of community support when you're going through changes like this and that's really driven a lot of what I've done since the other part of that was what we're talking about here is regenerative agricultural regenerative farming and it goes by a lot of names and labels around the world but that kind of the power of biology and ecology in the hands of a farmer who understands those concepts and functions was achieving some pretty inspiring things around the world so yeah and it was interesting the Duncan one of the guys in quorum sense posted this morning and said he had found a video of my presentation from that scholarship this morning which I've avoided watching for obvious reasons and anyway I ended up watching it just out of curiosity and it was fascinating because all the things I was going on about that I was hoping that we would kind of get into as a country in terms of exploring these the kind of biology and ecology of our farm systems and developing that understanding and the kind of community driven nature by which which is what I've seen succeed around the world that was black and white what I was pretty keen to sink my teeth into and it must have only been a couple of months later that John O'Frew and Simon Osborn and Nigel Green would got together in a farmshed and started quorum sense which is about half of what I do now so it's pretty cool looking back that was only a couple of years ago so I suppose I see myself part farmer part sort of community supporter of sorts in relation to quorum sense and I also do a bit of independent research mostly with Dr Gwen Growlop from Minaki Fenawa who was on here last week so yeah thanks Thank you fantastic that must have been such an incredible experience talking to so many farmers across the space in nine months I'm sure we'll get to dive into that a little bit too just a reminder to everybody on the call that you can submit questions through that Q&A box so feel free to chuck whatever's on your mind into there first up I'd just like to ask all the panellists the question and we're doing this question with all our webinars that's a very it seems like a simple question but there's so many different answers to it what does regenerative agriculture mean to you so Sam perhaps you want to start off Cool thanks I was regretting this a little bit because I've been on the other side of webinars recently asking other people questions like that yeah I suppose the I haven't really thought too hard about that particular question to be honest I mean there's the principles of regenerative agriculture which it sounds like most people are broadly familiar with you know how do we how do we apply human based thinking to understanding how ecosystems and biology functions and how do we develop a farm system that works with that and not against it there's one level there the other level which is kind of the what are the outcomes that you're working towards what are your goals for you and your farm in your community and what I really like about the regenerative narrative or community or whatever you want to call it is it's really broad stretching from your water and your biodiversity and your climate goals through to your community vitality and community support and that through to local food resilience, nutrient density connecting the health of our soils to the health of our food to the people and the kind of rigour that the conversation brings to paying attention to all of those things and not focusing too much on anyone I really really really like so that's at one level that's kind of what it means to me and at another level it's just about communities of farmers and people that support them creatively looking to continuously improve what they're working towards using some pretty exciting new understandings and tools or perhaps not new for some people but new for many in terms of the power of diversity and microbiology and ecological systems when we work with them so yeah that's perhaps I'll leave it there and bow to the wisdom of Jules and Jono for some more articulate definitions Jono would you like to jump in there? Yep sure so what is regenerative agriculture to me so regenerative agriculture to me and again broadly stated because it is such a huge thing is that it's about understanding the impacts of each of your choices that you make with the basis of utilising the natural resources and the natural capital that we all have access to and you know create systems around these but the cool thing with regenerative is is that you're never you're never finished you're never actually fully regenerative regenerative to me is more of a context and we're learning stuff all the time and the really cool thing about regenerative agriculture to me is that community sharing of knowledge and ideas and that's why we started Quorum Sense and how it's been so effective is that you know no longer is it us versus them it's sort of like we're all going to make this and we're all learning together and we're especially not all collectively failing but it's about understanding you know like Sam said that the basic fundamentals of biology and ecosystem function you know really of which if I'm bold enough to say is that we really just are scratching the surface nature is so complex and I said something in a previous interview and now on the homepage of my website it's like going from complicated simplicity to simple complexity yes natural cycles and ecosystem function is hugely complex you know everything we do is has a ripple effect a lot of which we don't actually understand nor do we see but it's about taking what we do understand and working with that to create food production systems and communities that allow everyone to flourish I'm not just talking about human beings you know no longer are we the controllers you know we just really at the helm so to speak you know the rudders being the ecosystem and we're just at the helm controlling what we can control but really the works being done by the rudder that being the biology and the ecosystem itself so once we realise that you know we are not the ones on top we're just part of everything and then how do we go forward with that in mind with nature fantastic thank you Jules what does it mean to you regenerative agriculture well and again it means a number of things but when I think about regenerative if I'm a little bit like Jono and actually I prefer the word regenerating because regenerative denotes that there's an end in mind and there isn't we don't know we don't know how far you know we can go with much of what we're doing because we are just scratching the surface but I think it's a I think of it as a whole system approach to not only ecosystem but also financial personal and community well-being and dynamics so it's it's based in it's principle based and and for us it's measured by outcomes so there are no constraints going into it it's just a matter of measuring the results you're getting to see are you improving those bottom lines you're looking at or not and I think it also needs to be looked at in local context so although the principles can be taken and applied everywhere applying them relative to the context is really a vital piece of it so I think fundamental to it is mindset and what I see over and over and over again is is a mindset that includes curiosity it seems to include a lot of accountability the people I see really who are adopting this are lifelong learners anyway and there's a huge amount of collaboration so I often say that nature is a reflection of us and who we're being and when you look at some of the troubles that we're facing in our natural ecosystems we're also facing a lot of those issues in our bodies as well so I think as far as principles go it's about maximising photosynthesis so we can really enhance ecosystem function through sunlight which is the energy source of everything and really promoting life and that's promoting life on all levels not just human life and human well-being and of course to do that we need to really look at the fundamental one of the fundamentals which is diversity so diversity in all the ecosystems and out of that building resilience and I think we know when we're really regenerative when we've got a syntrophic system at work with that upward spiraling and that upward improvement and where that ends who knows I don't think there is but you know we've been measuring things based on a system that's certainly not functioning optimally so there's a lot of fun in discovering what there is to discover Gotcha, yeah and I'd like to actually before we dive into the questions in the Q&A put that question to Jono you've talked about the shift mindset for you and an improvement in your own mental health so we'd love to just hear a little bit about what was it about regenerative agriculture that caused that shift for you Yeah, cool so there was a few you know there was several things but some of the key parts were I guess going from you know when we're trying to control everything you know like my old life or my history has been to kill whether it be competing you know competing plant species you know fungal attack all these treatments of symptoms and we treat those with huge you know velocity with agrochemicals and tillage and lots of different things to and like doing that there was like a level of subconscious resignation like as Jill said what we're dealing with out there is like really a correlate of what we're dealing with as human beings and so while I was out there controlling the ecosystem trying to get this target that we're promoted to get to by industry is that inside I was also suppressing my self-expression and I was scared to really express that and I'm only just seeing these sort of correlations now in retrospect at the time I was just a grumpy arrogant righteous man that knew better than everyone and that brought on a lot of anger and I kept a lot of people including my friends and family you know out here at arms length just to not challenge me and people that did challenge me I'll tell you what it wasn't pretty and then all of a sudden with the discovery of regenerative agriculture and community and like Jill said diversity across all spectrums that includes input and diversity of perspectives is just hugely vital and when I started letting go of trying to control things and actually being part of something and being open to learning all these different perspectives that Steve Ratins up in the Burns Building at Lincoln there a few weeks ago and we're having a discussion about a few practical things around biology and ecosystem and he said to me what are your credentials and I said I'm not I never got NCA level 1 I never went to university and there was a silence for about 10 seconds and he said he smile he says you're a scholar of life and so the key thing here is curiosity I got this sense of fulfilment and joy from being a contribution to the world so taking my perspective and getting over the fear of sharing that or like the fear of not being accepted for what I had to say and getting over the wanting to have the agreement all the time because it's really when you get down underneath it seems to be we're all after that agreement and it's no wonder we stay the same it's like once you get beyond that and embrace the diversity that we all are that's how we progress so I got to start being a contribution I got to start learning from all these wonderful people you know a lot of people on this call I've got Nicole Masters to thank immensely for in the early days when I started to discover all this stuff and we just started Quorum Sense although now it's a charitable trust at the time it was just a group where we'd just hang out around farms and I got to this point where I was like you know no longer was I going for the farm ownership thing with the family because I didn't have the family anymore I was left with right what am I going to do when I knew contributing felt really good I knew giving felt really good like in any ecosystem or farm system it is all a currency you cannot receive without giving and so when I was faced with what am I going to do here for everyone's information I did stop smoking cannabis and I actually had my heart rate drop significantly like 15 beats per minute on average I started to become present with people for the first time seeing people for who they really were not as the judgment I thought they were in my yucky head of righteousness and arrogance let go of all that and wow I just got to be with people I was having a conversation with Nicole one day the private conversation about I was thinking about going out and starting sharing my perspective as a job as a full time thing and I'm entertaining these thoughts like I'm not greedy and I'm not good enough those thoughts that most of us hold on to before we take action and a lot of us won't take action because of those and thank goodness for Nicole because she was like to me she was like Johnno you're ready now and she's like the world needs you now and I was like okay and so I just went out and just started doing stuff and one foot in front of the other and again just being open to all the things that life throws at you and now I sleep well at night and I have this level of contentment that I've never experienced before and I tell you what I'm more busy than I either have been I used to do 100 hour weeks and complain about how busy I was now I do more than that but I tell you what there's no complaints at my end that's fantastic to hear again thank you for sharing that part of your personal story I love that that idea of being a scholar of life and there's a comment and a question here from Caroline Stewart who said she'd learned more about I guess regenerative agriculture that approach from transforming her own small vegetable garden patch that she did in a four year forestry degree so there's a question of how is regenerative agriculture reaching out to gardeners and sharing what they're learning and how is the community I guess amplifying what's going on Are you asking me that question Alina? If you'd like to answer that's fine but it'd be great to hear from many of the others as well Jules I know you travel around the country a fair bit so you've probably seen a lot of different case examples Yeah I think you know I think is the whole concept of regenerative or regenerating is taking hold not only are farmers interested but certainly a lot of gardeners and integrity soils we've had lots of conversations around this and currently I've been doing a little bit of work with various groups looking at you know how do you roll these concepts out so that they're easily available to people and what are the concepts what are the things that people need to know so that they can go about growing really healthy food for themselves I mean I would like to see more availability of information and certainly maybe some sort of guiding principles whether that's on some webinars or whatever form that takes I mean personally if I had the time to see I'd go around this country doing workshops for gardeners because when you look at like the Second World War you know 50% or 40% of the food in America was grown in home gardens and you know we only need to look at what happened with COVID and you know there were no seedlings left and I can guarantee you a lot of those seedlings probably didn't do very well and it would be lovely to have a nation of people who were really OFA with how do you grow great nutritious food and out of that how do we have a great ecosystem that's really healthy and also we're raising children with smart minds because they're getting good nutrients so yeah quite how to do it I'm not sure but I currently have the role of managing a wee farm out of Wellington and that's one of the things we're intending to do here is have it as an educational place for urban people Absolutely I can tell you my veggie garden is full of the plants that I planted in seedling pots the weekend before lockdown I'm pretty stoked that I took the effort to do that I mean it really also as I can see that it provides those urban New Zealanders with a way to think about regenerative agriculture and think about what's going on in the soil so there's a great question here from Blaise Turnbull how do you think we can better facilitate cross community conversations between rural and New Zealand communities Sam any thoughts on that one or any of the others I mean I think that the food is the connection between the primary conjoint between rural and urban I guess and it's been amazing the conversations that have been sparked with the whole COVID thing in terms of people that have been thinking about local supply all farmers thinking about local supply of food to their local communities or people in town thinking about trying to find direct source food from their farming community but never quite getting to that point and then all of a sudden COVID happens and the incentives there that you've got the time and then everybody's talking about it and there's a whole lot of amazing conversations that have sparked coming out of that I think the food conversations just really fits that it's not necessarily an easy fix in terms of that some of the supply chain there are some things that sit slightly outside of a farmers core skill set or their core knowledge that require different expertise and different skills and different perspectives to come in and help set those things up and I suppose what I'm really enjoying about the regenerative farming community in New Zealand at the moment is again the diversity thing is there's so many people that are just sort of listening in and contributing in their own ways with all of these really very different skill sets to what a lot of farmers have and I'm quite excited about where that's going to go and just on the previous question in terms of regenerative urban gardening or whatever our lawn got a bit destroyed just before Covid so I stole a whole lot of cover crop seed and we took every type of veggie seed that we possibly could and we just sprinkled it out on the lawn with a bit of turf grass and to be honest that's what kept me sane for the eight weeks in Covid because I got to watch this amazing diversity and you're like what's going to come up now and what's not going to come up and just having that sitting out your front door was amazing and we thought all the kale and broccoli had failed but you know six, eight weeks we would seed it, you know a little rain event comes along and suddenly it's just cranking through so I'd encourage anyone to give someone like that a crack and just have a bit of a play in your backyard and see what happens because it's amazing how much fun it is It sounds like a fun experiment Any of the other panellists want to answer that question around the urban rural community I don't want to say divide but yeah making the connection I think it's important to firstly acknowledge that there has become this divide you know much like when I started school and town when I say town, I was bought up and done training at the Waitaki Valley and then went to school in Omoru and the shift from being out in the country and being accepted to all of a sudden going to town and I was like alienated because of my interest in farming that first had me aware of the fact that there was a divide and now like Sam said the common thing is that essentially we all need food and what that looks like is really we all need to be on the same wavelength and because the diversity thing why it's so important is we get to have outcomes that weren't possible without it and so there's a lot of things that even people in urban settings can contribute at a scale that might not be being thought of and vice-versa like back to the gardening thing my grandmother and my grandfather have been on a quarter-acre section for 40 years and they've been growing vegetables there really well, when I say really well they've always had vegetables and when I used to walk into the garden shed at just a stank of chemicals and fertilisers but they always had vegetables and they were always really tasty and then it wasn't until last year after having started serum biosis with Peter Barrett where we were doing cover crop mixes I had a bit of leftover seed and Sam I'm watching you buddy I'm going to have to start hiding my little stashes of seed and anyway my grandmother she used to cover her gardens pre-spuds she used to grow mustard and then hoe that in and then cover the soil with toilet paper not toilet paper newspaper and then I talked to her about the power of diversity and I had this you know, a handful of cover crop seeds and we put it down and it grew and she rang me out and she was like son what is this you know, it's going crazy out here do we need to be spraying this stuff and returning it back into the soil I said no, no just let it do its thing that year after 40 years of growing she had the biggest yield she ever had just by having diversity in pre-spuds and she said they tasted better they stored better and she went away and she was a good gardener got it, okay can I add something quickly to that sure I just think you've both touched on what's really important and there's one more thing which is we don't have a lack of science and a lack of knowledge we actually have a lack of understanding and that goes for both urban and rural people and I think the more we can learn the more we can expand our understanding of ecosystem function whether that be your little square pot in an urban setting or whether that be thousands of hectares of farmland, it's no different so I think it's really important that we all take that on I think that's a really important distinction between knowledge and understanding and if you're someone who's quite new to those kind of conversations that perhaps might come across as a bit newer philosophical so there's a fantastic and really I think important question from Michael Riley here around how farmers who want to make the transition can deal with those social pressures from family and friends the wider community and as he says at pushy sales reps noting that the ridicule can be really intense and of course these are tight-knit social communities that we're talking about so how do you deal with that dynamic? I'll jump on that one so and I've worked with Michael Riley he's a fantastic human being and I know he dealt with this hard in the early stages for being not accepted by his peers not the way he hoped to be and this is the thing is what we've got to remember is the push back and the ridicule remember is that's nothing to do with us and that's where it's really important that you develop that context for yourself or that intention of what you're at to achieve and then just remembering that other people may not carry that same view and when you're in a reductionist mechanical mindset of food production where we're talking monocultures controlling diversity removal rates of nutrients and replenishment what we're talking about here is biological function and speaking to that one specifically like mineral provision it does seem really eerie-fairy and really hard to grasp and you just can't like if someone had said to me when I was a chemical applicator about free nutrients through microbial diversity I would have said get out of town so it's about just getting for yourself clear your intention what you're at to do surrounding yourself with the people to support that and are open to that sort of mindset and don't feel you need to defend yourself to those people like what I invite you to do there guys and Michael you know this is just listen to the concerns of these people make sure that they're heard and there's all of a sudden no defence you don't need to defend what you're doing and then just share with them what you're up to and what you'd like to achieve and that's how we sort of get to encourage and stay stagnant Yeah absolutely and I know Sam you'd mentioned that it was in the communities where there was a lot of support for the farmers that were making these sorts of transitions that seemed to be thriving I wonder if you can speak a little to that Yeah well that was the I suppose the what I kind of stumbled across was farmers that had tried and kind of got knocked back and sort of sunk back to where they were and other farmers that had tried something and you know got through that sort of tricky transition phase and thrived and it was really that was really just the presence of a group of people or a community of people that believed in what they were doing and they didn't actually have to be farmers themselves or have any kind of technical knowledge that could help farmers overcome the technical changes it was actually simply the fact that there was family or friends or a local farming group or an online community of some sort if farmers felt like they were supported then they were far more likely to get through that phase and I mean Johnno's advice there was fantastic and it is quite a sad story that and it's not limited to New Zealand that so many farmers that kind of try something different do get really scorn because of this sort of connection between how you farm and your identity and your community and it's all tied up which is I mean it's a weird human thing and it's extremely common and yeah that's just the if you're making, I suppose that my practical advice is if you're making a start and exploring this kind of thing then make sure you do find yourself a even if it's just a small group of people that you can bounce ideas off and just talk about what you're doing who can now when things don't go to plan or you make a mistake or whatever you know be there to just to help you through it and that's just super important Jules I know you've worked with a lot of different communities around the country so are there any standout examples that you can share of where this has worked well that power of I guess social cohesion and getting the message out there well I think both these guys have covered it pretty well and you know the best demonstration we have in this country is actually quorum sense and how do you collaborate as a group of people and take out of the space any wrong making you know we've developed a society that's all about knowing the answer and you know our importance and our worth is all based around what we know and I think in this regenerative space it's really about being brave to ask the questions and being brave enough to say you know I have no idea and look to others to help guide you and it is it's about collaboration and it's about supporting one another and I think I was just having a conversation this evening before this and it was about a family that have sort of taken on a bit of regenerative approach and dad got really nervous and throughout a lot of nitrogen three times in a row unbeknownst to a son and cause you know some quite serious problems with cattle and and I think we've got to look beyond what the issues are and look at what are our interests and come together in that real collaborative way around our interests because they're always going to be issues we have differing opinions on but that's not where we're going to really be collaborating so I think you know look beyond that and find out what people are interested in and be brave enough to forget the tall poppy thing and actually share because it's one of the things New Zealanders you know are not so good at is we're not so good at sharing ourselves and sharing our vulnerability and our concerns and I think when we do and others are willing to just hear us they don't have to fix our problems they just have to listen and listen with a bit of an open heart really helps I think you're dead right there and that's where I see stories like Jono's being so powerful in terms of other people being able to see themselves and know that people are out there talking about it and that there are different ways to be farming I actually want to jump to a question now that's come through on the Facebook live stream because we're simultaneously live streaming there I mean one thing that's come up a few times as I've been researching this series is there's a lot of overlaps between regenerative agriculture and indigenous world views and relating to the land so there's a question around how are you working with Te Ao Māori on your farms and developing your understanding of titiriti when it comes to the whenua and what it means to you to Pa Ki Ha so does anybody like to answer that one I would love to Elina so to give you an understanding I so me and my twin sister were the first sort of Pa Ki Ha generation of our family and my grandmother taught today all of the schools in the Waitaki Valley and around Omaru voluntary for a few decades and I actually grew up in my heritage and because of the the area that I grew up and didn't allow for that culture that it was like the stereotypical sort of high country sheep and beef sort of environment where there was this view about the Māori people that I was nervous to acknowledge that I was part of and when I realised in recent years the impact that that's had on me and suppressing that I've since now felt this connection and like I've now learnt like my mihi for instance and I'm learning a few things around my history and I'm looking at I have actually been coaching a few people involved in a few iwi up north and for the first time in my life I'm like so excited about about coming back to my heritage and bringing that forward and my children are too which is really exciting It's great to hear that you're on that learning journey either of our other panellists like to speak to that at all Yeah, I guess the the point to where it's got for me personally is with we've got some amazing Māori practitioners that are really good friends with having lots of conversations about the real natural synergy between Tau Māori and the regenerative way of thinking in terms of living systems and things like that but really it's at this stage to be honest there's been conversations we've had some really amazing conversations with Māori landowners there's quite a lot of them going around the country I think the fastest perhaps the fastest segment of people to put it that way are really just naturally grasped what we're doing but I think it's going to express itself in its own way and that's what I'm observing a little bit at the moment but I'd love just to see more of the richness of Māori culture sterling to weave through the work that we're doing and that so looking forward to it Thanks Sam We've got about 5 minutes left in our conversation here this evening did you want to add anything on that topic Jules? I think just briefly I think we all come from different walks of life and different levels of understanding in different contexts and we've lived in a predominantly white western context and I think it's up to all of us, the onus is on us to really listen with the intention of understanding in a way that we never have so that we can really embrace the richness and the fullness of this nation and what was here before us I think that's vital Very well said There's a question from Thomas that I'd like to put to you and I know that this is one that is front of mind for a lot of farmers that are thinking about transitioning but how have the panellists to have fears or anxieties about the output levels per hectare if they apply regenerative approaches to their farming it could be a big scary thing to change everything that you think you knew and try this experiment on your land when your livelihood is at stake so what would you do to allay those fears? If I can jump in there I think firstly people need to develop a little bit of confidence in anything new they are doing so I think there's nothing wrong with taking these principles and applying them on a small portion of your farm so you can actually really start to see what works in my location given my financial situation my constraints and opportunities in my land base and also with regards to my family and my community so I think when people have a really clear path forward they can juggle those things in a way that empowers them and get yourself a good mentor whether that's someone in your location or someone in a different location that you can bounce stuff off it might be another farmer it might be someone who's working in the industry and search out those opportunities like come the farm and what's coming through that where people are starting to get connected Wonderful That's where communities like Quorum Sense are so important I wonder if one of you, Sam or John could just speak to the kind of support that farmers on the Quorum Sense group are providing to one another Yep, okay I think you just got voluntold As pointed so what we do in Quorum Sense is it's really just about sharing our experiences in a new place of like my ways better or you need to do what I do it's more just like here's what I do we all share not just the good but also the not so good and it's about you know like Jules said earlier just about people's concerns being heard and then you get this diversity of well actually I've been in a similar situation to that and this is how I overcame it or you know a lot of the time what people see is something wrong you know we've got to stop doing that because a lot of the time when you get out there and discuss these things and express what you're dealing with often it's actually there's nothing wrong often there's no failure it's just your perspective of what's going on and sharing that and not getting stuck in the of I'm doing something bad or wrong allows us to be fluent and adaptable and resilient to these things that we used to see as issues and again just being a contribution like in the quorum sense everyone's contributing and it's just this you know this energy and you just can't I've never experienced anything like it and people are getting their expression people are getting to be a contribution people are getting to learn so much just from all this diversity and that's what quorum sense was started for and just to add to that I suppose that at the moment a lot of quorum senses is online mostly the Facebook page is what most people connect to but our goals as a group are very much to get kind of tie back into a little bit of how quorum sense started in terms of back in the field and running events and that person to person stuff but also just trying to create multiple forms of engagement for everyone so there's kind of what quorum senses now and kind of where we're hoping to head so we're working on that one and we've got a link to the quorum sense Facebook group in the chat window if you want to check that out we have reached the top of the hour now so I think we're going to draw it there we've got a few more questions in the chat window so we might look at seeing if we can address some of those on social media perhaps this week on the pure advantage Facebook page you can follow them on Facebook or on Instagram check out quorum sense as well very cool active community community fellowship is also on Facebook also Twitter I think both and EHF also has a really active YouTube channel as well where you can see all of the previous recordings of this webinar series as well as a bunch of other webinars and videos from that community of global thinkers not just on Regeneg but on a lot of different things you can also catch the recordings of these webinars on the pure advantage website as well thank you so much for joining us this evening next week we have a lunchtime session again so we're alternating between evenings and lunchtimes to try and accommodate both speakers in the US and also of course farmers who are out there doing it during the day so next week we've got lessons from around the world we've got a packed panel next week with four amazing speakers we have got Aaron Crampton who has grown up in the Canadian Prairies in Manitoba so she'll be speaking a little bit about her experience Sam will be joining us again next week and we can dive a little more into his journeys around communities around the world Nicole Masters who we discussed earlier who's now based in the US and also based in the US is Celine Diaris who's a bit of a community weaver over there and there's a real connector between the different aspects of regenerative agriculture so thank you so much for joining us all this evening it's been a fantastic conversation and thank you again to our speakers for being so gracious with your time and so generous and wonderful to have you all here tonight thank you we'll see you next week bye


I'm a marine biologist and geneticist and I have a particular love of fish and shellfish that live in cold places like Antarctica and the fish that I studied down there are really, really neat. They are full of antifreeze which helps them survive the cold waters and stop their blood from freezing and I've also got a whole lot of other changes that they've made to let them survive down there. But we're interested in not only how they survive the now, the present when it's cold, but what happens to them when we warm up their world with global warming. We're looking particularly at the membranes or the covering around their cells, so all animals need to keep those in enough of a flexible stage or fluid for bodies to function. And when you take an animal like a fish from one temperature to another, they're meant to be able to adjust the fats on their membranes to go from saturated to unsaturated or the other way round. And we think in the Antarctic fish that perhaps because they've evolved in a very cold but very stable for a long period environment that they may not be able to do that shift in the flexibility of their membranes as well. So we're looking at that. And we hope that this will shed light on the impacts of climate change on these fish, which ultimately affects our food supply as well.


Hey there, lads and ladies. It is Petrifying Pumpkins here and welcome to another PSVR2 video. This one is a bit of a disturbing one. I'm just going to pop it up on the screen now. It's a comment over on Redis from a user named Gribly who was a Rec Room developer and they were asked about bringing Rec Room to PSVR2. If you don't know what Rec Room is, it is a social game that was on PSVR1. It's also on PC and all other headsets and it's got crossplay and it's like, you know, it's pretty big these days. They've also got a flat version of it. I think it's on Xbox and, you know, you can even play it on your phone now, I think, so it's everywhere kind of, and it kind of got big. But it was one of the very first social games on PSVR1. It was quite popular, especially with the younger audience. But when he was asked about bringing Rec Room to PSVR2, he said, no current plans to bring Rec Room to PSVR2. We've looked into it. It's a non-trivial port. And we haven't found a way to make it make economic sense. In an ideal world, we would love to bring Rec Room to PSVR2, but we just can't justify the cost based on the numbers. Sucks, I know, but that's the truth. So there you have it. It looks like Rec Room isn't coming to PSVR2, which you would imagine would have been a shoe-in or just like an obvious choice to port that game over to PSVR2. But it's not making economic sense. They've looked at the numbers. Obviously, they must have been talking to other developers or whatnot and gotten the idea or the lay of the land that PSVR2 just doesn't have the numbers to support Rec Room, which is concerning. This is deeply disturbing. And you know, it's kind of adding, this isn't the first time we've heard talk like this from the Lo-Fi developer as well. He also heard similar things where PSVR2 isn't doing that great. So it really feels like Sony need to do something. They need to either show games or they need to cut the price of the PSVR2. They need to act somehow because the picture that's been painted of PSVR2 is getting more and more negative by the day. That's really all I wanted to say. Just that I'm worried, I seem to be getting more worried about PSVR2 as the days go on. And I just kind of want to get your thoughts on this. What do you think? Does it feel like the writing is on the wall for the PSVR2 already? It's not even out of year yet. Is that crazy? Are they to say that? Is this the Vita all over again? Or will Sony turn this around? Will the games start flooding in? Will the price drop? Will the sales boost? I don't know. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say for this video. Before I go though, let me thank my channel members whose names are on the screen as we speak. They are the following. Muzz, Dead Eye Dan, Chopped PPE, No One Knows, Movemaster Mick, Esports Commentator for Hire, Digg The Pumpkin Patch Kid, Pete Hawkins, Streaming Reptiles and Nonsense, Crumb, Superfly AF, Edify Till I Die, Lone Wolf Viewer, Aist, Mr777, Dante Bruce, Jubba Jub Productions, JL, Jerm Vorthair, AC6 The Mat Hatter, Horatio Award, Durbin Brown, Funky Sloth, Hire Primate 30, Joel, Haseeb Mirza, Prophecy777, Amanda Clark, Nert Boglin, Turbro Turner, Roy Schwartz, Jeremiah, Eden Shaw, Love Machine 83, Gaming and more, Infinity Lefty, Maiki Mui, Vincent McClone, DJ Son, Jason Ewan, Roy Martini, Armstrong Million, Zero on Moon, Black Tailgaze, TB, Lumberg, Monkey Nuts 176, Duck Britain, MrTortoise, Ezekie, Nanny, Brannon Vior, Biftek 15, Tiger Tapa, Bask, Destity 11, Keldi Sevilla, Adrian PTC, Elephant Trap, Izzy Jones 19, Jimmy Neusens, Solid Justice, Leviathan, Mark Smith, Shadow XJ, L Diego Vior, Sliver Nexus, Phoenix 77, Sanador the Game Tiger, A Mental Man, Craig Graham, TGK2, Papa Shuffler, Captain F Castle, Nick, I'm not reading that one, Empathy the Game Cast, Jason Voorhees, Jay Gamer UK, Jeremy Wynall Hydronick, Chairface and Airey. Thank you very much lads and ladies for that support, it is greatly appreciated and if you would like to join that list of people you can hit the join button somewhere on the screen and you will get access to exclusive channel perks and what not. So that is it for this video, thank you very much for watching, I'll see you in the next one lads and ladies, please stay moist in these troubling times, amen.


Shokuman, that's drunk. Shokuman was a perfectly okay side scrolling action platformer for the TurboGrafx-16 released back in 1991 and yeah it's pretty much a Mega Man clone, but it's still a perfectly decent game. It was actually the second game in a series that initially started and later continued in Japan, with the follow up being Kaizo Shoujin Shibibenman 3 Ikai no Princess released for the PC Engine CD ROM, but for the 4th game in the series that Dev teams NCS and Masaya decided to turn to the Super Famicom in 1994, with Kaizo Shoujin Shibiben Man Zero, or just Shibiben Man Zero for short. The odd thing is, this game just wasn't released, it sat on the shelf for three years until it was made available on Nintendo's Sateleview service via download, and that's really strange to me because this game is pretty dang fun.  Well, what you see here is what you get. It's a 2D action platformer that features a lot of beat'em up mechanics running to the right and making stuff go boom, and it's two-player co-op. No menus, no frills, no BS, just pure action. What's not to like here? Yeah, there's some cutscenes with dialogue here, but this game is English-friendly, you don't need to know Japanese to play it. Player 1 plays as Raita, who uses his fists as an attack, giving the gameplay a shatter hand kind of a feel to it. You can also hold the Y button to charge up for a projectile, and you can actually do a dragon punch using the same control input as Street Fighter 2. Now that is cool. Player 2 plays as Azuki, who hacks and slashes away with a sword. She also has a charged attack, plus if you tap the Y button twice while in midair, she'll do a charged up kick. There's also combo attacks here, when you're playing 2-player, where if one player hits another with a projectile, they'll start to flash, fire off another projectile with that character for an even more powerful attack. One thing I should mention though is that unlike Mega Man, you can't move all charging up. You have to stand still, so you really have to be careful about picking your spots on when and where to use it. You may have a ton of moves at your disposal, but the level design here still puts up a pretty decent challenge. There's 7 levels with a ton of boss fights, and this game can really get tough. Some of the bosses toward the end are brutal.  Start from the beginning. No saves or passwords here either. So yeah, if you want to play all the way through this one, be prepared to sit down with it for at least an hour. One flaw I got to point out as well is that if you play this one with a second player, you share continues, so keep that in mind. The visuals here may not be anything spectacular, but they get the job done. Plus there's lots of little touches here, like when you take damage from these enemies. The pickaxe actually stays lodged in your head? Ouch! The name of the game here though is the boss fights.  There's one guy in particular who keeps showing up, and each time it's with new moves and is arsenal. You really have to be quick to react, both to dodge his attacks and to get your shots in. The first few bosses are pretty easy, but it can get tough later on. Heck, even just the regular enemies are really aggressive, you can't just sit there and punch and hope they walk into you, you gotta keep moving forward. It's a pretty smart enemy design. As I've mentioned a few times already, the obvious comparison here is Mega Man, and yes, the character's size and range of motion feel very familiar to say the least. I will say though, both the beat'em up style combat and the two player co-op feature make this game stand out as more than just a clone. The music, however, well, I can't really speak for that. Some tracks definitely sound derivative, which is totally fine, I'm just saying don't expect that same kick-ass Mega Man style soundtrack. The sound effects are great, but I think the music falls a little short. So how do you play this game? Well, in 2017, the retro game company Columbus Circle obtained the rights and was able to publish a cartridge release with a box and manual and everything for sale for a short time on Amazon, however there were a limited number of copies made, so you'd have to settle for finding one used somewhere. But yeah, however you decide to play this one, it's well worth checking out. It's a smartly designed, polished game, and a great combination of a beat'em up with an action platformer, and it's a really fun title to play with a second player. And I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.