Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Joel Salatin | Turning Sunlight Into Food—The Ancient Secret We’ve Forgotten

18 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A spoken presentation (YouTube) by Joel Salatin reflecting on photosynthesis and the remarkable process by which plants capture solar energy and convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into physical biomass (cellulose), supporting soil and microbial life. The speaker expresses wonder at how sunlight becomes tangible, usable material.

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I still am completely enamored that sunbeams can be captured by a plant and turned into something physical, measurable, wearable. The way the planet works, if you will, is you got the sun up there, the sun is beaming down solar energy, and it is captured by photosynthesis through chlorophyll in plants is captured, and the plant then inhales carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. It splits off that carbon and turns it into cellulose, you know, into actual material. I still just am completely enamored of the fact that something is as mystical and esoteric as sunbeams can be captured by a plant and turned into something that's measurable, fungible, wearable and physical. The non physical turns into something physical. Well, that physical then provides the the energy for the soil, microbial life.