This is a YouTube video titled "Teaching Kids About Regenerative Farming With Big Green | Kimbal Musk x Dave Asprey" featuring an interview recorded in January 2024. The content is a conversation between Dave Asprey and Kimbal Musk discussing the Big Green initiative, which teaches children regenerative farming through outdoor classrooms and edible schoolyards, emphasizing community and the impact of growing food on kids' connection to healthy eating.
You're teaching kids how to do regenerative farming in schools in a country called Big Green. Tell me about that and why you think that matters.
So my goal is to actually get everyone in America growing food. Place to start is with kids. We do these beautiful outdoor classrooms that are edible schoolyards. And we help the teachers teach classes that they would normally be teaching in the class, they just do it outside. But we also design them very beautifully and carefully so that they're very easy to teach in. We have all these cool innovations we've been doing. We've been doing that almost now 13 years. So. Been beautiful when we were in thousands of schools. The power of them growing their own food. You take those same kids and you give them a tomato or you give them carrot or lettuce or something like that, they will just reject it outright. But you have them grow something, they will eat that carrot right out of the ground with the dirt on it.
And they love it, love it. They really connect.
And again, it comes back to love. They are actually putting love into that garden. And when it produces something and carrots are a magic trick, all you see is a little green sprout, and you pull it out of the ground, and you're five or six years old, you're like, what? I did this. I mean, it's really incredible. And so to do that now, with hundreds of thousands of kids now across the country, the power of what we were doing with Big Green has transformed to be about community. It's almost like it's superpower.
Got it.
And that comes back to what we do at the restaurants. I am. There's this wonderful phrase or quote that Picasso does, which is, the meaning of life is to find your gift, and the purpose of life is to give it away.
Wow, that's a beautiful quote.
Beautiful. So for me, I found my gift, which is community. I love bringing people together, whether it's my kids or my family or it's the people at the restaurant, and to give it away. And I do the same thing with Big Green and have learned that that's where I get fed when I feel community around me. You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.
