Brigid LeFevre | On Life, Soil and Kimchi | Full Podcast Episode
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2023
- Campfire Podcast EP09 with ”Kimchi Queen” Brigid LeFevre, on regenerative agriculture, biodynamic farming and food fermentation. Presented by the film platform Campfire Stories (campfire-stories.org/).
Brigid LeFevre runs the community supported agriculture operation ”Förädlad” (roughly ”Enhanced”) in Järna, Sweden. It’s a biodynamic vegetable garden that focuses on fermenting the harvest in order to enrich it with lactic acid bacteria.
Brigid grew up in an anthroposophically inspired Camphill community in Northern Ireland where volunteers lived and worked together with people with special needs.
Growing up in a place where food production was separated from the economic market has had a big impact on Brigid’s philosophy as a farmer. She grows and ferments vegetables for the members, who subscribe to her jars of sauerkraut and kimchi. It’s a local, circular economy, which underpins an alive garden, buzzing and chirping, where the goal isn’t to turn a profit, but to make the soil more alive with the passing of each season.
We’ve also produced a film with Brigid, which you can watch here: campfire-stories.org/into-the...
Just love her..I moved out of London UK over ten years ago to the mountains in central Italy...I now grow my food, keep chickens, forage and barter with local small organic farms near me...I'm a fanatic about fermenting, ferment everything and became a master of fermenting..I'm trying to spread it among the locals here but most italians are not easy, too obsessed about pasta, haha😁 anyway, I live off grid with just a very small portable solar panel to charge my old mobile phone, as I don't have a computer or a fridge or a washing machine or central heating or hot running water, just my trusty wood stove, Ms. Goldies🥰😆..I make my own soap, vinegars, candles, etc...I rarely go out as I don't have a car too but I love being here alone with my plants and animals..I've never been healthier or happier. Love and peace to all😊💕
Thank you so much, what a lovely report from you Sue!
Sounds fantastic!
WOW!!!!!!!!!
ALSO if you might BURY or HALF BURY tree branches big and small THE MUSHROOMS will break it down AND THE ELIXER from the mushrooms will attract the bees who will consume it and it will cure them from diseases they get which kills them (paul stamets)
I am in Italy and just starting out with my gardens animals etc. I have 2 little ones and am trying my best to learn as much as i can and follow the regenerative way. I would love to chat !
Vanessa
This is such a beautiful and enriching pod cast.... Thank you xx
Its such a delight to listen to.
You are quite welcome! :)
Outstanding. I work with the developmentally disabled. I have found that it seems to me, everyone is! Guess I'm part of the Me Too movement.
it is so lovely that bridget could really choose what she wanted to do with her life. in less privileged countries, we seldom have the choice to give up our things and discover what we want to do, or to have different life experiences. everything we earn is something that we fought hard for, and the future is always uncertain. we end up setling down with our things to survive, or because we lack perspective, not because we want, living unfulfilling lives that focus on surviving the next day. that option to choose is taken for granted in some places. brigid may say that she does not understand why people conform to that, but it is indeed a complex problem compounded by many factors, from political to cultural ones that varies from person to person and depending on the region. thank you so much for this lovely and enlightening conversation.
thats a good point. also there is a woman who lifes in the suburbs and has an arrangement w twelve homeowners to tend a garden in their back yards and they split the vegetables. she owns no house and no property and few possessions and she LOVES her life.
Thank you so much for this input Luiza.
❤ my heart was so bubbly when I saw this suggestion from YT! lovely episode!!!
Sweet! Thanks Michael!
So inspiring. Thank you❤
You are so welcome!
I positively love this magically wonderful woman…Thank You Brigid for your sharing and such sharing fills my heart with feeling love and belonging. I grew up under the special needs label…you speak and bits of me shake…Bless you for your Awakened understandings…you are so freeing to tap into, my shaky bits rejoice knowing another experienced what it was truthfully like. Also, I would so love to learn fermenting from you in easy steps…have you written a book as yet! Love Campfire Stories and the gift you are. I also love your songs…are they available for purchase?
Mattias here, the founder of Campfire Stories. Here's a little ten minute how-to video from Brigid: www.campfire-stories.org/fermentation-course-with-brigid-lefevre
Enjoy! :)
Oh, sorry . Just saw that you'd already found it.
@@campfire-stories Thank you for your help!
Tack! 💚
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brigid comes from a lineage that survived Atlantis!
Yes, that would not surprise me :)
Prana ☆♡☆
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Hi! My question is: can you run a biodynamic farm in a vegan way?!
I know that there are people who will tell you yes and others no. Unfortunately I'm just the filmmaker. Hopefully Brigid sees this question and jumps in. Or maybe someone else with farming experience can share their perspectives? It's a great question.
Nothing in this life goes to waste.we are what we eat.
Why not? If you generate your compost based on vegetables and plants, then you don't need bonemeal, etc.
@@famulan3479 Because biodynamic farming use special preparations, many of which involves parts of dead animals.
@@Yoggoth I see
What is regenerative agriculture?
What does it regenerate?
Soil carbon? Many wild flowers thrive in low fertility soils.
Diversity? Can we just superimpose diversity onto our landscape? Natural diversity develops over long periods of time when the right conditions develop.
Soil minerals and fertility? Again like soil carbon there is no answer to what this should be, different diversity thrives at different levels.
Nature? What is nature? Is mankind not part of nature? Is nature that which naturally happens?
Is there a contradiction in trying to regenerate nature? Do we need a preconceived idea of what nature should look like to regenerate it in which case it’s then not natural.
What is biodynamic agriculture? Is it an attempt to holistically work with the land but unlike other holistic efforts it has a spiritual/ energetic component to it.
We try to manipulate our soils, farms and it’s atmosphere at a spiritual/ energetic level as well as a physical level.
Biodynamic agriculture came about to aid the spiritual evolution of mankind. Rudolf Steiner inspired it after he said our food no longer had enough energy to propel us forward
The wisdom of man is foolishness to God.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Those quotes came to mean a lot to me over the past few years having engaged in regenerative agriculture and biodynamics.
I engaged deeply in much of Rudolf Steiner s lectures and works.
He also inspired Anthroposophy which means the wisdom of man!
He inspired the Waldorf schools, anthroposophical medicine, the 3 fold path along with many other things which the camp hill community was born out of.
His inspirations come from the occult, hidden knowledge that he gained by accessing other dimensions.
When I started to to read the Bible I started to see how much of what he says is in opposition to the Bible. His version of esoteric Christianity has its roots in Gnosticism and Theosophy, which invert to Adam and Eve story in the book of Genesis. The Genesis account tells us that mankind fell into sin when they were tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil with the serpent telling them they surely would not die and would become as gods. Steiner’s version is that by accessing knowledge we will spiritually evolve.
In my experience the more knowledge we gain the more lost we seem to be, each new invention brings with new greater side effects.
The world wants us I believe we can be it’s saviours, the heroes but even when we think we are doing good it’s frequently not.
I was raised as a Catholic but I can honestly say I never had the ears to hear the Gospel or good news of Jesus Christ before I fell for all these deceptions.
We need a saviour and it’s not us.
I pray this message resonates with someone and people don’t give up on objective Truth.
I dismissed the Bible having never read it but now I see that the Truth is never hidden but in plane sight if we just open our eyes.
There is only one version of the Truth but unfortunately billions of lies.
Seek the Truth and you will come to see why you need Jesus Christ ( not the Christ impulse that Steiner inverts it to) as your saviour and the only way that few find.
When you worship creation ( like nature for example) instead of the creator you just get very lost.
That’s where the world is rapidly heading, it is heading for destruction but we won’t save it, only Jesus will, the book of Revelations reveals some of the details.
We are to be good stewards of it but we won’t save it.
@@johnmchugh3981dude. please, chill out.
I just love this, and Brigid! Yet i am still unsure how to do this, i would like to preserve beetroot in this way, and maybe carrots so I don't have to put them in sand. It's also going to cost me a fair amount to buy the Kilner jars with air lock etc. We are only two people so won't be doing vast vats ;) Still learning, are there any books on Lacto Fermenting? There is nothing about it in the Preserving books, not reached most people yet! I'm very excited about this as i was when i discovered sourdough 😊 Thanks Campfire and Brigid for such inspiration! Iona from the UK. 🌱🌼🥒🥬🥦🥕
Here's a how-to video with Brigid that shows how easy fermenting actually is. ua-cam.com/video/GjQu_0KGK3I/v-deo.html
Just one word of advice: red beets contain a lot of sugar and are not recommended to ferment, other than as a small percentage of a mix of other veggies. Apart from that - go for it! Start small scale before investing in a lot of stuff. If you like it you can always go a little bigger next season.