Down To Earth: Regenerative Farming, The Soul Of Soil, & Conscious Commerce W/ Ryland Englehart #277

It wasn’t planned this way, but I’m grateful to be able to release so many of my interviews from Attune Experience 2019 during this chaotic and stressful time. Not only are these fun conversations a nice distraction but their emphasis on spiritual transformation and inspiration is a message the world needs right now. And if you want to see what Attune is doing in 2020, head over to attuneexperience.com to learn more.

Today’s high-vibe guest is probably going to be familiar to anyone from the LA or Bay areas: Ryland Engelhart, the co-owner of Café Gratitude and the Mission Fulfillment Officer of Love Serve Remember.

The original Café Gratitude was a manifestation of a visionary concept — that food, gratitude, and love are the recipes for cultivating community and a reverence for the living world. One restaurant grew into seven throughout the Bay Area, and in 2011, Ryland and his brother brought Café Gratitude to Los Angeles. All of the restaurants are amazing, by the way, and serve 100% plant-based organic cuisine.

Ryland’s life purpose is to be an expression of love in action — and you really do feel this when you eat at any of their locations — but now he’s trying to express that love on an even grander scale.

Empowered with new research on regenerative agriculture's power to heal our planet, Ryland co-founded Kiss the Ground, an education and advocacy NGO working to transform our food system based in Venice, California. We talk all about why we need to change our worldwide farming practices VERY SOON, the transformative potential of regenerative farming, and what Kiss the Ground is doing to teach people more about the regenerative model.

You’re going to have trouble not expressing some gratitude for our wonderful planet after this episode is over.

 

11:00 — The origins of Café Gratitude

• Ryland’s dad’s divorce
• The role of Landmark Forum
• The original raw food gaming parlor
• Inviting people into a new view of life
• The biggest difference between Café Gratitude and most restaurants (hint: it’s not the plant-based food)

 

22:18 — The “Clearing” process

• What’s your biggest concern in life right now?
• When your attention is on that story, that concern you’re thinking about, what emotions do you experience?
• What do you love about your life?

 

38:05 — Landmark Forum

• Does Ryland experience any blowback?
• What it was like at the Forum
• How the experience changed Ryland’s worldview
• Going beyond self-imposed limitations
• We’re wired to look for what’s wrong
• There’s always something to be grateful for

 

51:30 — What’s up with the Love Share Remember restaurants right now?

• The evolution has been crazy
• Helping to bring plant-based food into the mainstream

 

01:01:10 — The plant-based phenomenon & the pros/cons of including some animal products in your diet

• Luke didn’t realize that there were healthy meat options for a number of years
• A 100% vegetarian diet didn’t work with Luke’s body
• Starting a farm with animals as raw food vegans
• Seeing yourself, as a human being, as part of nature
• Changing our relationship with agriculture and animals
• The regenerative power of farming with animals
• In the last 40 years, we’ve destroyed 30% of farmable land on the planet
• The UN says there are only about 55 years left of farmable land if soil degradation continues
• Doing less harm
• What Kiss the Ground is doing to educate farmers on regenerative farming

 

02:04:03 — Where does Biodynamic Farming fit in the regenerative model?

• The father of Biodynamic Farming
• Regenerative farming certifications that are in the works

 

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Resources

• Kiss the Ground: kisstheground.com
• Café Gratitude: www.Cafégratitude.com
• Gracias Madre: www.graciasmadre.co
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/lovebeingryland
• I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Café Gratitude by Terces Engelhart
• Attune: attuneexperience.com
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

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